Support Generating an Empty Report in Convert Step

[arnejduranovic]

User Story

As an RS developer, I would like to be able to generate an empty report so that lineages work correctly.

Description/Use Case

Currently, the code only support generating an empty report as part of sending something to receiver (i.e. they're on batch schedule and always want a report even if there are no items). However, the convert step also needs to be able to generate an empty report in the following situations:

• the submitted report was completely empty
• the hl7 message was unparseable

The empty report must be generated because otherwise the report lineage doesn't work and the action logs from the convert step are not visible.

Dev Notes

ActionHistory.trackGeneratedEmptyReport already exists and overload likely can get created to support this. Another option is to remove exceptions that are based on assumptions that a report cannot have empty item lineages.

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Acceptance Criteria

• Convert step updated to generate an empty report and report lineage (no item lineage) when certain conditions are met

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