FHIR Chat · Search entries from Bundle

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Topic: Search entries from Bundle

Ivo Lopes (Mar 23 2021 at 09:37):

Hello, I'm having a little difficulty finding the entries that were created with a bundle. Basically I create a transaction bundle, and I receive for example the following response:

{"resourceType":"Bundle","id":"d3b9fc55-fcfb-43ad-93a7-f9f95f1ecfc6","meta":{"versionId":"1","lastUpdated":"2021-03-22T16:33:30.414+00:00"},"type":"transaction","entry":[{"fullUrl":"8e7716d8-fe12-45d2-a440-d0b26f7f672a","resource":{"resourceType":"Patient","id":"8e7716d8-fe12-45d2-a440-d0b26f7f672a","name":[{"use":"usual","text":"gomes","family":"gomes","given":["nuno"]}],"gender":"male","birthDate":"2021-03-22"},"request":{"method":"POST","url":"Patient"}},{"resource":{"resourceType":"Observation","status":"final","code":{"coding":[{"system":"http://snomed.info/sct","code":"46635009","display":"Diabetes mellitus type 1 (disorder)"}]},"subject":{"reference":"8e7716d8-fe12-45d2-a440-d0b26f7f672a"}},"request":{"method":"POST","url":"Observation"}}]}

Everything seems OK, but when I try to search the Patient endpoint for the patient ID I receive a 404. Maybe because they belong to the bundle? is there a way when creating the bundle to create the entries in the Patient and Observation endpoits in my example?

Dexter (Mar 23 2021 at 09:53):

Does this not work? [baseUrl]/Patient/8e7716d8-fe12-45d2-a440-d0b26f7f672a

Ivo Lopes (Mar 23 2021 at 10:15):

No it doesn't work, the may the fullURL be the problem?

Ivo Lopes (Mar 23 2021 at 10:32):

I can find them on [baseUrl]/Bundle

Dexter (Mar 23 2021 at 10:34):

Is this a public server?

Ivo Lopes (Mar 23 2021 at 10:45):

No, it's a private one, using Microsoft Azure API for Fhir.
If I create the bundle in transaction mode it should create the patient and observation in their resource, but apparently no, I might be missing something.

Dexter (Mar 23 2021 at 10:50):

The document here says that transactions aren't supported, yet the bundle you tried to create is a transaction.

ps. I'm pretty new to this too, so please take what I say with a ton of salt :)

Dexter (Mar 23 2021 at 10:51):

As consequence, it might've just created the bundle you specify, instead of "acting out/executing" the transaction.

Ivo Lopes (Mar 23 2021 at 10:59):

I also think of that =( thanks for the document and help

Joel Schneider (Mar 23 2021 at 14:34):

To have the server process the Bundle as a transaction, the client should post it to [baseUrl] instead of [baseUrl]/Bundle
http://hl7.org/fhir/http.html#transaction

Caitlin Voegele (Mar 23 2021 at 15:22):

@Ivo Lopes Dexter is correct, the Azure API for FHIR doesn't support Bundles of type transaction right now. You would have to use a Batch bundle. Let me know if you have other questions!

Caitlin Voegele (Mar 23 2021 at 15:38):

@Ivo Lopes - One clarifying point :) If you POST your bundle to the root, you would have received an error for type transaction bundle. However, if you post to [baseURl]/Bundle, it will create a Bundle resource (i.e. not parse through the resources). So if you want to use the Batch bundle, make sure you POST to the [baseURL]/

Ivo Lopes (Mar 23 2021 at 15:46):

thank you @Caitlin Voegele , but posting it through the [baseURL]/ won't create the entries in each resource neither will revert all in case of a failure, right?

Caitlin Voegele (Mar 23 2021 at 19:25):

Let me know if this answers the question. If you use [baseURL]/ with a batch bundle (changing the type of the bundle), the resources will be uploaded but processed according to the batch. If you use it with a transaction bundle you will get an error.