Open rahul1 opened 1 year ago
I'd like to wait and gather more data points before doing this.
We should treat every custom addition to Meta
as a pretty serious change because the blast radius is pretty big.
Created PR #3182 , which documents using the history endpoint to find when a resource was initially created.
Ah, a classic problem. Some relevant discussion: https://chat.fhir.org/#narrow/stream/179166-implementers/topic/meta.2EcreatedAt
Since this initial ticket was created, we've had a number of users request this field. The main use case expressed is to have a deterministic sort order for paging through large sets of resources, without having to worry about resources being updated while paging:
Currently, to figure out when a certain resource was created, users have to use the history Api and search on the client-side. We've had a number of requests for the ability to search on the creation time of a resource (rather than the lastUpdated time) that it would make sense to make this a first-class member of our
Meta
type, similar toMeta.author