Stream: implementers
Topic: FHIR Deployables
Jose Costa Teixeira (Jul 31 2019 at 02:57):
Just asking/exploring, sorry if redundant, off topic or lacking consistency:
Once we make our StructureDefinitions and our CapabilityStatements , we want our FHIR server or façade to adopt it.
Can we / should we deploy these artefacts to the servers, so that the servers would get the package and automagically adopt the constraints in that package? Does the idea make sense?
Is there any discussion or recommendation on that?
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 31 2019 at 03:01):
The servers would still need to define their own StructureDefinitions and CapabilityStatements that define what they actually do (as it'll rarely be an exact match and anywhere there's a SHOULD or MAY they'll have to distinguish what they do vs. not). It's certainly possible for a client to download a profile and auto-enforce that, but that's a really sophisticated capability that I wouldn't expect most systems to support.
Grahame Grieve (Jul 31 2019 at 03:10):
depends on how the server supports the structure definitions. There are implementers who want to do that on top of the generic servers. That's one use of the NPM packages
Jose Costa Teixeira (Jul 31 2019 at 03:33):
I'd love to discuss with any of these other implementers who would use the structure definitions on top of the generic servers. I will check with some developers around here to see how they want to do it.
Grahame Grieve (Jul 31 2019 at 03:40):
@Patrick Werner is one
Alexander Kiel (Jul 31 2019 at 06:37):
I have a server called Blaze which is in early stages with a primary focus on CQL. But it is also generic in a sense that you can initialize it with a set of structure definitions and it then supports that resources defined in the structure definitions. It will even work with custom structure definitions as long as the basic primitive types are the same. I could even allow the upload of new structure definitions during runtime. What I currently don't support are search parameters. The capability statement is generated from known structure definitions.
Jose Costa Teixeira (Jul 31 2019 at 07:16):
Thanks both.
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