Stream: implementers
Topic: Patch list of search modifier codes
David Towster (Mar 24 2022 at 22:39):
One of our customers is requesting the ability to search for (1) exact alphanumeric string match, but (2) insensitive to case and combining characters. This is essentially a combination of the existing modifiers :exact (exact match, but sensitive to case and combining characters) and :contains (not exact, but insensitive to case and combining characters).
Our ideal solution is to patch the existing set of FHIR SearchModifierCodes with a custom modifier (ex: :exact_contains) that would implement this search functionality.
Is it possible to patch this set of SearchModifierCodes to accomplish this?
Lloyd McKenzie (Mar 25 2022 at 02:20):
Not conformantly. The only conformant way to do this is to define a new SearchParameter that behaves exactly as you wish.
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
