contact.telecom.extension.valueUrl does not validate phone number values

[lee-hyunkyu]

• fhir.resources version: 6.1.0
• Python version: 3.7
• Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04

Description

I'm trying to construct a Patient resource after fetching it via a FHIR call.

What I Did

I fetched some data and tried to construct it using the Patient model class.

The contact field for the resulting patient information was

"contact": [
    {
        "relationship": [{ /* a relationship object */}],
        "name": { /* a name object */ },
        "telecom": [{
            "extension": [{
                "valueUrl": "(123)123-1234",
                "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/iso21090-TEL-address"
            }],
            /* rest of the telecom object*/
        }]
    }],

contact -> 0 -> telecom -> 0 -> extension -> 0 -> valueUrl
invalid or missing URL scheme (type=value_error.url.scheme)

The url rfc defines that parenthesis are not valid so the sender seems to be at fault. Is there any way for me to continue to use the library to construct this Patient resource and specifically ignore validating this field?

[nazrulworld]

One solution could be if possible change valueUrl to valueString. But it is not possible to turn that validation off.

[lee-hyunkyu]

Unfortunately that's not possible. Going to close the issue since we found a workaround