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7.8.11.1 Operation $transform on StructureMap

FHIR Infrastructure Work Group Maturity Level: 2Trial Use Compartments: N/A

The transform operation takes input content, applies a structure map transform, and then returns the output.

The official URL for this operation definition is

 http://hl7.org/fhir/OperationDefinition/StructureMap-transform

Formal Definition (as a OperationDefinition).

URL: [base]/StructureMap/$transform

URL: [base]/StructureMap/[id]/$transform

This is an idempotent operation

In Parameters:
NameCardinalityTypeBindingProfileDocumentation
source0..1uri

The structure map to apply. This is only needed if the operation is invoked at the resource level. If the $transform operation is invoked on a particular structure map, this will be ignored by the server

content1..1Resource

The logical content to transform

Out Parameters:
NameCardinalityTypeBindingProfileDocumentation
return1..1Resource

The result of the transform

Note: as this is the only out parameter, it is a resource, and it has the name 'return', the result of this operation is returned directly as a resource

The input and return are specified as 'Resources'. In most usage of the $transform operation, either the input or return content is not a valid FHIR resource. In these cases, the return type is actually a Binary resource. For this operation, the Binary resources may be encoded directly, using a mime-type, as shown in the example. Note: this specification does not yet address the means by which the servers may know the correct mime types for the various content involved

7.8.11.1.1 Examples

Request: Transform input model

POST [base]/StructureMap/example/$tansform
Content-Type: text/xml

<classA xmlns="http://example.org">
  <test>value</test>
</class>

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml
[other headers]

<message xmlns="http://example.org/other">
  <testValue value="value"/>
</message>

 

For more information about operations, including how they are invoked, see Operations.