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Operation-messageheader-process-message.json

Infrastructure And Messaging Work GroupMaturity Level: N/ABallot Status: InformativeCompartments: Device, Practitioner

Raw JSON (canonical form)

Operation Definition

{
  "resourceType": "OperationDefinition",
  "id": "MessageHeader-process-message",
  "text": {
    "status": "generated",
    "div": "<div>!-- Snipped for Brevity --></div>"
  },
  "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/OperationDefinition/MessageHeader-process-message",
  "name": "Process Message",
  "status": "draft",
  "kind": "operation",
  "date": "2017-12-20T15:52:34+11:00",
  "publisher": "HL7 (FHIR Project)",
  "contact": [
    {
      "telecom": [
        {
          "system": "url",
          "value": "http://hl7.org/fhir"
        },
        {
          "system": "email",
          "value": "fhir@lists.hl7.org"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "description": "This operation accepts a message, processes it according to the definition of the event in the message header, and returns a one or more response messages.  This  operation is described in detail [on the messaging page](messaging.html#process)",
  "code": "process-message",
  "comment": "This operation does not use the parameters resource; the parameters \"async\" and \"response-url\" always go in the URL, if they are used, and the message parameter is always the body of the HTTP message",
  "resource": [
    "MessageHeader"
  ],
  "system": true,
  "type": false,
  "instance": false,
  "parameter": [
    {
      "name": "content",
      "use": "in",
      "min": 1,
      "max": "1",
      "documentation": "The message to process (or, if using asynchronous messaging, it may be a response message to accept)",
      "type": "Bundle"
    },
    {
      "name": "async",
      "use": "in",
      "min": 0,
      "max": "1",
      "documentation": "If 'true' the message is processed using the asynchronous messaging pattern",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    {
      "name": "response-url",
      "use": "in",
      "min": 0,
      "max": "1",
      "documentation": "A URL to submit response messages to, if asynchronous messaging is being used, and if the MessageHeader.source.endpoint is not the appropriate place to submit responses",
      "type": "uri"
    },
    {
      "name": "return",
      "use": "out",
      "min": 0,
      "max": "1",
      "documentation": "A response message, if synchronous messaging is being used (mandatory in this case). For asynchronous messaging, there is no return value",
      "type": "Bundle"
    }
  ]
}

Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.