Stream: implementers
Topic: Resource equivalence
Stephen Royce (Mar 24 2017 at 02:54):
If I have 2 versions of the same resource (id matches), can I consider them to be the same if nothing outside the meta data differs?
Stephen Royce (Mar 24 2017 at 02:54):
Also, is there any other data besides meta which I might ignore when conducting a comparison?
Stephen Royce (Mar 24 2017 at 02:57):
My current use case is comparing versions of a StructureDefinition; however, I think that eventually I'll be interested in this as a general problem that could apply to any resource type.
Grahame Grieve (Mar 24 2017 at 03:19):
in principles, there's no single answer to that question. The question is, for what purpose?
Grahame Grieve (Mar 24 2017 at 03:20):
but I do think that this provides some suggestions:
Grahame Grieve (Mar 24 2017 at 03:21):
http://hl7.org/fhir/xml.html#digsig
Stephen Royce (Mar 24 2017 at 03:37):
Ah! Great. I figured there must be something like that around. Thanks!
John Moehrke (Mar 24 2017 at 14:00):
There are known issues with signatures as well, one can work around them but all workarounds have drawbacks. See http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=FHIR_Digital_Signature_Working_Page
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