Stream: implementers
Topic: requesting deleted resources
Georg Fette (Feb 21 2019 at 07:51):
Hallo, Is it possible to obtain the list of recently deleted resources from a FHIR server ? Because deleted resources cannot be found via search operations this appears difficult. For synchronization processes with other servers it would be beneficial to obtain a delta of past operations which should also include deletions. How could something like a data delta be obtained from a FHIR server ?
Greetings
Paul Church (Feb 21 2019 at 13:13):
This exact topic came up recently in the bulk data track: https://chat.fhir.org/#narrow/stream/179250-bulk-data/topic/.24export.20operation.20and.20deletions
Georg Fette (Feb 21 2019 at 13:36):
oh, interesting, thank you
John Moehrke (Feb 21 2019 at 13:59):
It would very much depend on the policies being used to implement delete... Some policies would forbid telling you that something was deleted... Some policies simply mark the resource as inactive, meaning it is still there and gotten the same as any. Some would create a Provenance resource to record the deletion event while deleting the resource, thus you could query for delete Provenance.
John Moehrke (Feb 21 2019 at 14:19):
see Provenance of Removal http://build.fhir.org/provenance.html#removal
nicola (RIO/SS) (Feb 22 2019 at 16:59):
Here is related topic - https://chat.fhir.org/#narrow/stream/179166-implementers/topic/_history.20of.20.24everything
Idea of "transaction log" is still idea - let's materialize it! :)
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