Stream: implementers
Topic: Requirement for extending resources
Jafer Khan (Jan 14 2019 at 16:28):
Hello people,
I am looking for a change in a couple of resources for adding extra fields in them. The project that I've been looking so far is hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base but it isn't helping much as the conversion from a resource (as an instance of any of the model classes) to the actual entity which is persisted in the database is difficult to review. As I fear my change could unintentionally break something, can anyone help me out in this regard?
Yunwei Wang (Jan 14 2019 at 17:19):
You can try adding extensions
Lloyd McKenzie (Jan 14 2019 at 23:49):
Adding elements to a resource would make your implementation non-conformant (and would mean it wouldn't work with the test servers, validators, etc. The FHIR extension mechanism allows you to introduce additional content pretty much everywhere using a mechanism that will produce instances that are compliant and will work with standard schemas, etc. Read the http://hl7.org/fhir/extensibility.html page for information.
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