Debugging the Facade

  • Start your Firely Server

    Note

    If this is your first startup of Firely Server, it will take a while to load in all of the specification files.

  • You can inspect the console log to see if the pipeline is configured to include your repository. See Detailed logging of loading plugins for more details.

  • To test your Facade, open Postman, or Fiddler, or use curl to request GET http://localhost:4080/metadata

    The resulting CapabilityStatement should list only the Patient resource type in its .rest.resource field, and – among others – the _id search parameter in the .rest.searchParam field.

  • Now you can test that searching patients by _id works: GET http://localhost:4080/Patient?_id=1 Requesting the resource ‘normally’ should automatically work as well: GET http://localhost:4080/Patient/1

Important

If it works, congratulations! You now have a Firely Server Facade running!

Testing during implementation

Follow these steps if you want to test your work during the implementation phase without having to build, copy and start Firely Server each time, or with the ability to set break points in your code and debugging it:

  • In the project properties, click on the Build tab.

  • Set the Output path to your Firely Server plugins directory.

  • Go to the Debug tab and set Launch to Executable.

  • Point the Executable field to your dotnet.exe.

  • Set the Application arguments to <your-Firely-Server-working-directory>/Firely.Server.dll.

  • Set the Working directory to your Firely Server working directory.

Now, whenever you click to start debugging, Firely Server will start from your project and your project dll will be automatically built to the Firely Server plugins directory.

Next part of the exercise

You can proceed to the next section to add support for Observations as well.