Stream: implementers
Topic: How to escape colons in search
Mike C. (Oct 24 2019 at 20:43):
Hi folks,
Just a quick question - for many of the resources on my FHIR server, my "subject.reference" field references a Patient ID in the following format:
"urn:uuid:111222333444".
I am attempting to query for all Encounter resources that reference a certain ID as the subject.reference.
I am trying to search using this syntax: [base URL]/Encounter?subject=urn:uuid:11112222233333
But I am unsuccessful. I tried passing \ and / in front of those colons in the patient ID but to no avail. Just wondering if anyone here knew how to query for a Patient ID that contains colons within it. Thanks!
Michele Mottini (Oct 24 2019 at 20:52):
The way to escape those is to use %3A for :
But are you sure that that's the id of the patient? Seems an identifier more than an id
David Pyke (Oct 24 2019 at 20:53):
Convert the colon to it's equivalence of %3A
Mike C. (Oct 24 2019 at 20:54):
The way to escape those is to use %3A for :
But are you sure that that's the id of the patient? Seems an identifier more than an id
Michele, thank you for your reply! Yes, it is experimental patient data attained from Synthea. It is the identifier that corresponds to the "reference" property of the "subject" element for my Encounter resource. It is the only Patient identifier in the resource.
Lloyd McKenzie (Oct 25 2019 at 00:27):
In general, references to a uuid are only expected to resolve inside a Bundle. The server processing the transaction is responsible for translating those UUID references into proper resource URLs on its server
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