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Topic: FHIR Validator with local StructureDefinitions

view this post on Zulip Shamil Nizamov (Aug 04 2021 at 18:53):

Can FHIR Validator validate resource instances against locally located StructureDefinition, CodeSystems and ValueSets?
I.e., the case when the Patient.meta.profile is populated with some dummy http://example.org/StructureDefinition/patient-profile, whereas StructureDefinition and other related artifacts are in the local folder.

view this post on Zulip Morten Ernebjerg (Aug 05 2021 at 09:20):

Assuming you mean the Java command-line validation tool: Yes, you can do that. Put the StructureDefinition, ValueSet, and CodeSystem files in a folder and then point to that folder by passing the ig parameter when running the validator (...-ig path/to/folder). To have the validator actually apply the resource to a given resource instance, you either have to

  1. fill meta.profile in the instance with the canonical URL of the profile (i.e. what is in the url field in the associated StructureDefinition), OR
  2. Use the -profile parameter to explicitly tell the validator to validate against this profile (passing the canonical URL)

Full instruction for using the validator are here: https://confluence.hl7.org/display/FHIR/Using+the+FHIR+Validator-

view this post on Zulip Shamil Nizamov (Aug 05 2021 at 14:47):

That's great. I was thinking that -ig should point to the online version as well. I've just tried and it works. Thank you.

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