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Version: v0.1.14

Validate against your own profiles

No profile content is bundled. US Core and vendor profiles are supplied by the caller, which means the library never claims conformance to a version of a profile you did not choose. Load a published StructureDefinition with loadStructureDefinition, or author one in code:

import { defineProfile, parseResource, validateResource } from "@cosyte/fhir";

const localObservation = defineProfile({
  url: "http://example.org/StructureDefinition/local-observation",
  name: "LocalObservation",
  type: "Observation",
  differential: [{ path: "Observation.subject", min: 1, max: 1, mustSupport: true }],
});

const { resource } = parseResource(
  '{"resourceType":"Observation","status":"final","code":{"text":"synthetic"}}',
);

const outcome = validateResource(resource, { profiles: [localObservation] });

outcome.valid; // => false
outcome.issues.map((issue) => issue.code); // => ["MUST_SUPPORT_ABSENT", "CARDINALITY_MIN"]

Two things to read off that result. Must-support is reported as informational, because must-support is an obligation on a system, not a requirement that an instance carry the element. The cardinality finding is the error, and it is the one that moves the verdict.

Rely on the constraints R4 declares​

You do not need a profile for the constraints R4 itself declares. On the eight modeled resource types, validateResource evaluates them with no options at all: a patient contact with no name, telecom, address, or organization breaks pat-1, an extension with both a value and nested extensions breaks ext-1, and an element with no value and no children breaks ele-1:

import { parseResource, validateResource } from "@cosyte/fhir";

const { resource } = parseResource('{"resourceType":"Patient","contact":[{"gender":"other"}]}');

const outcome = validateResource(resource);

outcome.valid; // => false
outcome.issues.map((issue) => issue.constraint); // => ["pat-1"]

A profile that carries one of those constraints again does not double the finding: each violation is reported once per occurrence. And a profile carrying R4's dom-3 as written, as every R4-derived snapshot does, draws no finding for it on a resource with nothing contained, because that constraint holds there by its own terms.

Start from the starter profiles​

A starter kit of small, specification-grounded profiles ships with the package as worked examples. They are built through the same public authoring call you would use, so there is nothing privileged about them:

import { STARTER_PROFILES, parseResource, validateResource } from "@cosyte/fhir";

const { resource } = parseResource(
  '{"resourceType":"Observation","status":"final","code":{"text":"synthetic"}}',
);

const outcome = validateResource(resource, { profiles: [...STARTER_PROFILES] });

outcome.issues.some((issue) => issue.code === "CARDINALITY_MIN"); // => true

Reference​