Submitted Ids should not be case sensitive

[rosibaj]

Actual Behaviour

Searching for a donor_id or specimen_id or sample_id is case sensitive.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Search for a donor id with https://clinical.qa.argo.cancercollaboratory.org/clinical/specimens/id?programId=PACA-AU&submitterId=RBSP1
2. see that it returns not found
3. Search for a donor id with https://clinical.qa.argo.cancercollaboratory.org/clinical/specimens/id?programId=PACA-AU&submitterId=rbsp1
4. see that it returns SP40

Expected Behaviour

• Ids SHOULD be case senstive No matter the casing I submit, the id should not be case sensitive. Both of these requests should return SP40.
• If I try and register the RBSP1 and rbsp1 they should be treated as the same specimen
• Special error message

  This donor was not found.
  This donor was not found, but a donor exists with an id that matches this string: <>.  Did you mean this?

[rosibaj]

Discussion in grooming

• make sure the documentation is that ids are case-sensitive
• make sure this is recorded in the dictionary and docs

[blabadi]

the title & description and the last comment in this issue seem out of sync to me

[rosibaj]

@blabadi the original title was submitted as a bug - After discussion we agreed that:

• ids ARE case-sensitive
• this needs to be well documented for the user (that last comment).

The documentation for this has not yet been completed, so i have left this ticket to make sure that the concepts get addressed when needed!

[rosibaj]

https://www.hl7.org/fhir/datatypes.html

This decision was based on the Hl7/FIRE id spec here