I'm trying to run a search for Appointment and include some resources but not others. Specifically trying to avoid including some Binary resources linked as "supportingInfo" which are quite large.
But I'd still like to include Patient, Location, etc.
Using *
works and includes all related resources: Patient, Location, Practitioner, and unfortunately Binary:
GET /Appointment?_include=*
But, none of these include anything other than the Appointments:
GET /Appointment?_include=Patient:patient
GET /Appointment?_include=Location:location
GET /Appointment?_include=Patient:actor
GET /Appointment?_include=Practitioner:practitioner
Am I doing something wrong? Or is this just a limitation of Google's FHIR API implementation? I've successfully used other, seemingly more advanced search features like _revinclude
and _include:iterate
but maybe it's all or nothing? I'm not sure how to go about confirming this?
_include needs to specify the Resource and search parameter you're wanting to include. So for Appointment, it would be:
GET [base]/Appointment?_include=Appointment:patient,Appointment:location,Appointment:practitioner
If you wanted to also include some of the resources that an included resource pointed to, you'd need to do this:
_include:iterate=Location:organization
would return the organizations pointed to by Locations that were included by your priro include