Stream: bulk data
Topic: Which Request Types are Required?
Justin Stauffer (Feb 23 2018 at 19:21):
I'm looking at the specification linked here and wondering what the optionality of the different request types are:
https://github.com/smart-on-fhir/fhir-bulk-data-docs
Some are obvious but mainly what I am not sure of is whether the File Request is required to be supported by the FHIR server.
I'm not exactly sure where I got this impression but I was thinking the output/url returned in the Status response was not required to be an actual resolvable URL. Is that accurate?
Sorry for embedding two questions into one post here... So regardless of the answer to the question above, if support for some requests are optional, could that be added to the proposal page somewhere? Thanks.
Grahame Grieve (Feb 23 2018 at 19:23):
what would be the point of a server that didn't support the File Request?
Justin Stauffer (Feb 23 2018 at 19:26):
I was under the impression that the files could be exchanged in some out of band manner (such as SFTP or whatever). Is that not accurate?
Grahame Grieve (Feb 23 2018 at 19:27):
I don't think that's part of the spec
Justin Stauffer (Feb 23 2018 at 19:28):
OK, thanks. Must be just a misunderstanding on my part then.
Grahame Grieve (Feb 23 2018 at 19:30):
a really early version of the spec did have something very like that. But on discussion, early on, we removed it. http is as effective as any other pull option. And push options all raise security / management issues
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