Other (smaller) features of the POCOs
The IIdentifiable<T> interface
All FHIR resources that have an element called `Identifier will have a POCO that implements IIdentifiable<T>, where T is the type of the Identifier property.
In practice there are only two types used for T, which means that there is a IIdentifiable<Identifier> and IIdentifiable<List<Identifier>>. IIdentifiable<T>
derives from the empty marker interface IIdentifiable. There are extension methods GetIdentifier() and TryGetIdentifier() available to quickly get the value
of an identifier by system, given a POCO that implements IIdentifiable.
The ICode<T> interface
The binding of the FHIR model for CQL defines which elements are the “primary code” element for a resource. Often, these are elements called “Code”, but designers of the
POCO’s have sometimes chosen a different name for the element that codifies a POCO. We have used the binding for CQL to identify each such element. A resource that has
a primary code will implement ICode<T> to get and set that code. Currently, T can be:
CodeCodeableConceptList<CodeableConcept>FhirStringDataType
The DataType (which is abstract) is used when the coded property is a choice (e.g. many coded elements related to Medication are defined to be Coding or Reference).
Although this set is currently limited, the CQL binding might change in the future, so implementers are advised to accomodate for all coded types (code, Coding, CodeableConcept, Quantity), or the data types (string, uri))
to appear here.
ICode<T> derives from the ICode interface, which has a single method ToCodings() that returns the coded contents in the form of a list of Coding. Coded
types are converted to Coding as described in https://hl7.org/fhir/terminologies.html#4.1.