Stream: implementers
Topic: Mapping Repo
Grahame Grieve (Nov 20 2019 at 15:03):
https://github.com/FHIR/interversion
This is the repository that contains (or will contain!) my work on mapping and interconversion and the javascript sandbox
Florian Briand (Nov 20 2019 at 15:57):
Thanks for your presentation ! I'm wondering how is it possible, with mapping language or StructureMap to get data from "non FHIR sources", like a SQL database.
I see in the engine's readme, a Todo: do we need SQL access?. Is it the "answer" to my question ? ;)
Grahame Grieve (Nov 20 2019 at 15:59):
well, there's 2 parts, specification and tool. I think you're question might be an answer to my question, not the other way around
Florian Briand (Nov 20 2019 at 16:06):
As how I understand things (so very few ;)), in the Java or DotNet engines, I have to provide data as "tree" data, typed with FHIR types I've defined.
So, on a SQL database, for each table, I have to generate a fake datatype and I have to call the engine after having transformed my tabulated data into this datatype.
And I find that quite strange to do that instead of having an "ORM" in the engine, allowing me to read tables from the mapping language.
Grahame Grieve (Nov 20 2019 at 16:07):
I think that's what that question is getting at
Grahame Grieve (Nov 20 2019 at 16:07):
I think that the problem of cyclic-ness is what held me back...
Florian Briand (Nov 20 2019 at 16:09):
What do you mean about the cyclic-ness problem ? (maybe we should discuss about that in #mapping-framework ?)
Grahame Grieve (Nov 20 2019 at 16:40):
databases are not acyclic
Grahame Grieve (Nov 20 2019 at 16:40):
but yes, it would better on the other stream
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