Stream: implementers
Topic: Ids in Bundles
Richard Kavanagh (Apr 10 2017 at 09:48):
When you have a bundle of resources that do not exist on a FHIR server, do the resources in the bundle entries have ids? The spec suggests not.
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David Hay (Apr 10 2017 at 17:40):
My understanding is that If it's a new resource (POST) then no, (the fullUri acts as the target for a reference). For an update (PUT) then it can, but the server can ignore it.
Angus Millar (Apr 10 2017 at 23:57):
You can add UUIDs for each resource (as the FullUrl) in the bundle and this is needed if one resource in the bundle has a reference to another in the bundle. For instance, if you have an Observation that references a Patient where both resources are in the bundle then the Observation.Subject would reference the UUID used as the FullURL of the Patient resource. Yet, if you don't need to do this sort of referencing then I don't see the need for the FullUrl UUID.
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