Stream: hapi
Topic: FHIR resource serialization
Mark Discenza (Oct 12 2020 at 17:40):
When the HAPI server serializes resources in response to a read or search, is there a way to influence the order of resource attributes in the json that gets returned?
Grahame Grieve (Oct 12 2020 at 19:21):
in principle, it cannot matter. Or at least, if your implementation needs it to matter, you need to revise your implementation
Mark Discenza (Oct 12 2020 at 19:29):
I agree, it does not matter for json consumed by a software module. We are interested in attribute reordering for human readability for testing purposes. For example, it would be nice to reorder attributes in the same order specified in the IG we are using. That's the motivator here.
Grahame Grieve (Oct 12 2020 at 20:36):
ah. been there, done that. You need a json comparison tool that can canonical json before comparison
Grahame Grieve (Oct 12 2020 at 20:36):
there's one in HAPI if it's of interest
Mark Discenza (Oct 12 2020 at 22:00):
yeah, I'd be interested in taking a look at that. Do you know that name of the tool, or perhaps can tell me where in HAPI-land to look for it? Thx Grahame!
Grahame Grieve (Oct 12 2020 at 22:23):
compareJson in org.hl7.fhir.r5.test.utils.TestingUtilities
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