hapi-fhir/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-example

Running hapi-fhir-jpaserver-example in Tomcat from IntelliJ

Install Tomcat.

Make sure you have Tomcat set up in IntelliJ.

• File->Settings->Build, Execution, Deployment->Application Servers
• Click +
• Select "Tomcat Server"
• Enter the path to your tomcat deployment for both Tomcat Home (IntelliJ will fill in base directory for you)

Add a Run Configuration for running hapi-fhir-jpaserver-example under Tomcat

• Run->Edit Configurations
• Click the green +
• Select Tomcat Server, Local
• Change the name to whatever you wish
• Uncheck the "After launch" checkbox
• On the "Deployment" tab, click the green +
• Select "Artifact"
• Select "hapi-fhir-jpaserver-example:war"
• In "Application context" type /hapi

Run the configuration.

• You should now have an "Application Servers" in the list of windows at the bottom.
• Click it.
• Select your server, and click the green triangle (or the bug if you want to debug)
• Wait for the console output to stop

Point your browser (or fiddler, or what have you) to http://localhost:8080/hapi/base/Patient

You should get an empty bundle back.

Running hapi-fhir-jpaserver-example in a Docker container

Execute the build-docker-image.sh script to build the docker image.

Use this command to start the container: docker run -d --name hapi-fhir-jpaserver-example -p 8080:8080 hapi-fhir/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-example

Note: with this command data is persisted across container restarts, but not after removal of the container. Use a docker volume mapping on /var/lib/jetty/target to achieve this.

Using ElasticSearch as the search engine instead of the default Apache Lucene

1. Install ElasticSearch server and the phonetic plugin
   • Download ElasticSearch from https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch
   • cd {your elasticsearch directory}
   • bin/plugin install analysis-phonetic
   • start ElasticSearch server: ./bin/elasticsearch
2. Replace configuration in web.xml
   • replace the configuration class ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.demo.FhirServerConfig in web.xml by ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.demo.elasticsearch.FhirServerConfig
3. Start server by runing: mvn jetty:run
4. Limitations:
   • Hibernate search are not compatible with all ElasticSearch version. If you are using Hibernate search: 5.6 or 5.7, the compatible ElasticSearch version is 2.0 - 2.4. If you are using Hibernate search: 5.8 or 5.9, the compatible ElasticSearch version is 2.0 - 5.6.
   • Please check all the limitations in the reference documentation: https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/search/5.7/reference/en-US/html_single/#elasticsearch-limitations before use the integration.