(version 6) How to build resources with extensions from dict? about fhir.resources HOT 5 CLOSED

You can have a look at https://www.hl7.org/fhir/auditevent.html
I am not fully sure if it is a good idea but you can put AuditEvents inside Patient.contained

Other options could be, create extensions and append Patient. extension

from fhir.resources.

As far as know, there is no element/field name, called banana, you can make extensions only for available fields/element
For example:

result = fhir.resources.patient.Patient(**{
            'id': str(self.id),
            '_gender' or ''_id'': {
                'extension': [{
                    'url': 'https://tempuri.org',
                    'valueInteger': self.specialid,
                }],
            },

from fhir.resources.

Thanks for the quick response. That variable banana is sort of tongue-in-cheek, but the point was we often have requirements to exchange some resource such as Patient but we also must include a series of internal/proprietary key/value pairs of metadata related to the resource (better examples: "created by", "internal-department-id", "origin-system-category" etc...)

My interpretation is that the FHIR standard intentionally doesnt leave a place for arbitrary/extensible key/pairs, and that extensions are the preferred means of accomplishing this. Hopefully I'm missing a place in the resource for holding these sort of fields?

from fhir.resources.

Not sure if this is the "right" way to do this, but I ended up sub-classing the fhir resources and add new fields where needed.

from fhir.resources.

I like your latter suggestion, create extensions and append Patient.extension .
I will close this one up.

from fhir.resources.