Deployment Guide

Install Visual Studio Code

• Download and install Visual Studio Code

Install .NET Core 2.1

• Download and install .NET Core 2.1 SDK 2.1.803

• Test your installation by opening a new terminal and running the following command:

  dotnet

Running the app

• Clone the project and open it in Visual Studio Code.

• Open the file appsettings.json

  {
    "Logging": {
      "LogLevel": {
        "Default": "Debug",
        "System": "Information",
        "Microsoft": "Information"
      }
    },
    "Instance": "",
    "Tenant": "",
    "ClientId": "",
    "ClientSecret": "",
    "BaseAddress": "",
    "Scope": ""
  }

• Replace the empty fields with the Azure FHIR API credentials you have been given.

• Save the file.

• Navigate to the directory dotnet-azure-fhir-web-api using the terminal inside Visual Studio Code.

• In the terminal, run the following command:

  dotnet run

• Open a web browser and navigate to https://localhost:5001/api/Patient/ to view a list of all patients.

List of API endpoints

Patients

• GET all patients: /api/Patient
• GET a patient: /api/Patient/ patient ID
• GET a selected number of pages of patient: api/pages/ number of pages

Observations

• GET all observations for a patient: /api/Observation/ patient ID
• GET a single observation for a patient: api/Observation/single/ observation ID
• GET a selected number of pages of observations for a patient: api/Observation/pages/ number of pages/patient ID

Adding more controllers

The app uses Dependency Injection (DI) design pattern. For more information on how to implement that on .NET Core check this article

Logging and debugging

Check this article for an overview of the implemented logging features.