Breaking changes in 5.0

Changes in classes

• The protected constructor of abstract class BaseFhirClient requires a ModelInspector and fhirVersion. The nullable parameter IStructureDefinitionSummaryProvider has been removed.
• The static methods BundleToEntryRequest.ToEntryRequest and BundleToEntryRequest.ToEntryRequestAsync require a ModelInspector and fhirVersion
• The static method TypedEntryResponseToBundle.ToBundleEntry requires a ModelInspector.
• The class FhirClient is not a partial class anymore.
• The default parameter IStructureDefinitionSummaryProvider provider of all the constructors of FhirClient have been removed.
• Obsolete members of FhirClient have been removed (use the FhirClient.Settings property or the settings argument in the constructor instead):
  • VerifyFhirVersion
  • PreferredFormat
  • UseFormatParam
  • Timeout
  • ReturnFullResource
  • PreferredReturn
  • PreferredParameterHandling
  • PreferCompressedResponses
  • CompressRequestBody
  • ParserSettings
  • OnBeforeRequest: add a HttpClientEventHandler or another HttpMessageHandler to the constructor to use this functionality
  • OnAfterResponseRequest: add a HttpClientEventHandler or another HttpMessageHandler to the constructor to use this functionality
• Obsolete class LegacyFhirClient has been removed.
• The constructor of classes BaseFhirParser and BaseFhirSerializer requires a ModelInspector.
• The protected methods BaseFhirParser.MakeElementStack are not static anymore.
• ModelInfo.ConformanceResources and ModelInfo.ConformanceResourceTypes have been removed.
• ModelInfo.FhirCoreProfileBaseUri has been removed. Use now Canonical.FHIR_CORE_PROFILE_BASE_URI.
• Obsolete members ModelInfo.IsProfiledQuantity and ModelInfoExtensions.GetCollectionName have been removed.
• Partial class `ModelInfo' is not static anymore.
• ValidationSettings.XsdSchemaCollection is now of type XmlSchemaSet instead of SchemaCollection.
• SchemaCollection(IArtifactSource) is marked as obsolete, and the constructor will now get the schema from the embedded resource, disregarding the IArtifactSource argument completely.
• Interface IConformanceSource is now derived from ICommonConformanceSource. And IConformanceSource.FindCodeSystemByValueSet(string) has been moved to this new interface ICommonConformanceSource.
• Obsolete extension methods of ResourceResolverExtensions has been removed: FindExtensionDefinition, FindStructureDefinition, FindStructureDefinitionForCoreType and FindValueSet.
• The constructor of ProfileAssertion and ProfilePreprocessor require now a ModelInspector as a parameter.
• The public method of ProfileAssertion.SetDeclaredType has been removed.
• The overloaded methods Validate of the class Validator with the parameter ITypedElement requires now a ModelInspector as a parameter.
• The public method of Validator.IsBindeableFhirType has been removed.
• The type of property TranslateParameters.ConceptMap has been changed from ConceptMap to `Resource.
• The type of the parameter conceptMap in TranslateParameters has been changed from ConceptMap to `Resource.
• The public method ElementDefinitionExtensions.PrimaryTypeCode has been changed to GetTypeCode() and the return type is now string?.

Model (for R4 and higher)

• The type of CapabilityStatement.Type has been changed to string? (was ResourceType?)
• The type of CapabilityStatement.TypeElement has been changed to Code (was Code<Hl7.Fhir.Model.ResourceType>)
• The AllowedTypes attribute has been removed from the following properties:
  • ElementDefinition.Value
  • ElementDefinition.DefaultValue
  • ElementDefinition.Pattern
  • ElementDefinition.Fixed
• Enum ElementDefinition.ConstraintSeverity has been moved to Template-Bindings.cs.
• Description of Money values has been corrected (diacritics)

Model (Only R4B)

• Enum EvidenceVariable.CharacteristicCombination has been renamed to EvidenceVariable.CharacteristicCombinationCode.
• EvidenceVariable.CharacteristicCombination_ has been renamed to EvidenceVariable.CharacteristicCombination.

Classes moved to Common assembly

The following classes/interfaces have been moved to the common assembly Hl7.Fhir.Support.Poco: