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Stream: subscriptions

Topic: Sydney Connectathon - I'll be remote

Gino Canessa (Jan 30 2020 at 22:23):

Hi everyone! Unfortunately, I won't be at the Connectathon this weekend, so I wanted to post something here.

For anyone who hasn't used it yet, there is a client/server test combo available at subscriptions.argo.run.

Below is some short-ish info for using them. While I won't be there, feel free to ping me on Zulip, I'll check periodically if there are any problems or requests with those tools.

Anyway, are three projects accessed there: a UI, a proxy-server, and the "client host" server. Together everything does the whole loop, but each piece can be used to test against something else (e.g., use the UI as a subscriptions client with a different server or use the server to test a different client).

UI:

• TypeScript React App (link to repo is on the hosted page)
• Everything possible runs in the browser
  • Can't have REST endpoints in the browser, so those are in the Client Host
  • Creating endpoints in the UI sets one up in the client host and shows that URL
  • Notifications sent to endpoints in the session get forwarded to the UI

UI: Config Tab

• Settings (e.g., URLs, light/dark look, etc.)
  • FHIR Server URL can be set to your test URL
  • Since everything runs in the browser, it can point to localhost, etc.
  • Connecting gets the Capabilities Statement and checks for needed capabilities based on the operations in the UI
  • If you are having trouble connecting to your server, turn on the 'Skip FHIR Server Capabilities Check' toggle
• Useful links (e.g., to the current and previous Connectathons, to the GitHub repos of this software, etc.)
• Connect/Disconnect button: connect to the server and client host (required for all other operations)

UI: Patient + REST

• Walks through a single-patient encounter notification and REST notifications
• "On Rails" version, only options available are valid for the scenario

UI: Group + REST

• Same as above, but uses the Group resource for filtering events instead of Patient

UI: Playground

• Named appropriately :-)
• Allows for testing of things like Websockets, Email, etc.

UI: DevDays

• The most BASIC client tutorials I could figure out.
• More info can be found on my DevDays slides

Server Proxy:

• Thin proxy server that points to hapi.fhir.org.
• Intercepts everything it needs for Subscriptions
• Can be used directly, FHIR endpoint is: server.subscriptions.argo.run

Client Host:

• Public hosted endpoints for testing
• Only useful paired with this UI

Hope everything goes well this weekend, and safe travels!

Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC