Aidbox supports default GraphQL implementation without any extensions (spec located here) Queries are supported, but mutations are not (yet)

In Aidbox UI there is GraphiQL interface, you can try your queries there. GraphQL console sends all your requests to $graphql endpoint which you can use from your application too

{"data": {<query exectuion result>}

Aidbox generates different GraphQL scalars, objects, queries with args and unions from FHIR metadata.

Queries

For each ResourceType two queries are generated:

• <resourceType> e.g.: Patient. Receives a single parameter id and returns a resource with the requested id. For example: Patient (id: "pat-1")

• <resourceType>Liste.g.: PatientList. Receives FHIR search parameters for that resourceType. SearchParameters have underscores instead of dashes and referenced later in this doc as search_parameter. For each SearchParameter there are two args generated:

  • <search_parameter> e.g.: PatientList(address_state: "CA") Accepts a string. Is an equivalent of using FHIR search parameter

  • <search_parameter>_list e.g.: PatientList(language_list: ["en", "de"]) Accepts a list of strings. It is an equivalent of repeating search parameters in FHIR search. <search_parameter>_list arg is needed because args can't be repeated in the GraphQL query.

Examples

• PatientList(language_list: ["en", "de"]) will return a set of Patients the same as GET /Patient?language=en&language=de and those will be patients with en AND de as their communication language specified

• PatientList(language: "en,de") will return a set of Patients the same as GET /Patient?language=en,de and those will be patients with en OR de as their communication language specified

• PatientList(language_list: ["en", "de,fr"]) will return a set of Patients the same as GET /Patient?language=en&language=de,fr and those will be patients with en AND (de OR fr) as their communication language specified

• PatientList(language: "en", language: "de") is an error, it will ignore all language arg repetitions except of the last and will return a set of Patients the same as

  GET /Patient?language=de

Objects

For each ResourceType object with fields is generated. For every FHIR resource attribute field is created. Also for attributes with Reference type unions are created for direct and reverse includes Reverse include fields have such format: <revIncludeResourceType>s_as_<includedResourceReferenceSearchParameter> e.g.: observations_as_subject for Patient will be equivalent of _revinclude=Observation:subject

Example

POST /$graphql
{
  "query" : "
fragment PractitionerRoleWithPractitioner on PractitionerRole {
  id
  code {
    coding {
      code
      system
      display
    }
  }
  practitioner {
    resource {
      ... on Practitioner {
        id
        name {
          given
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
{
  PatientList(active: true, identifier_list: [\"tenantId|org1\", \"mrn|5678\"]) {
    id
    name {
      given
    }
    generalPractitioner {
      resource {
        ...PractitionerRoleWithPractitioner
      }
    }
    observations_as_subject {
      id
      code {
        coding {
          code
          system
          display
        }
      }
      performer {
        resource {
          ...PractitionerRoleWithPractitioner
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
"}

{
  "data" : {
    "PatientList" : [ {
      "id" : "51f507b5-8723-4dda-bee6-d3cbd86da28f",
      "name" : [ {
        "given" : [ "Tom" ]
      } ],
      "generalPractitioner" : [ {
        "resource" : {
          "id" : "54513486-7b9c-4baf-84b6-8d1bdb279ba3",
          "code" : [ {
            "coding" : [ {
              "code" : "therapist",
              "system" : "sys",
              "display" : "Therapist"
            } ]
          } ],
          "practitioner" : {
            "resource" : {
              "id" : "0091e1ee-8a5b-45a1-a1be-c2638e6ed482",
              "name" : [ {
                "given" : [ "Doc" ]
              } ]
            }
          }
        }
      } ],
      "observations_as_subject" : [ {
        "id" : "68100e43-4d1c-4fb7-b4d9-2f14d359fe90",
        "code" : {
          "coding" : [ {
            "code" : "15074-8",
            "system" : "http://loinc.org",
            "display" : "Glucose"
          } ]
        },
        "performer" : [ {
          "resource" : {
            "id" : "54513486-7b9c-4baf-84b6-8d1bdb279ba3",
            "code" : [ {
              "coding" : [ {
                "code" : "therapist",
                "system" : "sys",
                "display" : "Therapist"
              } ]
            } ],
            "practitioner" : {
              "resource" : {
                "id" : "0091e1ee-8a5b-45a1-a1be-c2638e6ed482",
                "name" : [ {
                  "given" : [ "Doc" ]
                } ]
              }
            }
          }
        } ]
      } ]
    } ]
  }
}

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