Validate a resource

Send a FHIR resource to $validate to check its structure and constraints without creating or updating it. The route is resource-type level: the type in the URL must match resourceType in the request body.

Method	Path
`POST`	`/fhir/R4/:type/$validate`

Request

The request body is the resource to validate. This example validates a Patient. Replace the illustrative fields with a valid resource for your project.

curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://api.sandbox.ovok.com/fhir/R4/Patient/$validate' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer ${OVOK_TOKEN}" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/fhir+json' \
  --data '{"resourceType":"Patient","active":true}'

Request part	Description
`:type`	FHIR resource type, such as `Patient` or `Observation`.
Body	The resource being checked. It is not persisted by this operation.

Response

On success the operation returns 200 OK with no resource body. If validation fails, the server returns a FHIR OperationOutcome whose issue entries describe the errors or warnings.

`OperationOutcome` field	Description
`issue[].severity`	Whether an issue is fatal, an error, a warning, or informational.
`issue[].code`	Machine-readable category for the issue.
`issue[].details`	Optional coded or human-readable explanation.
`issue[].expression`	Optional location in the resource that caused the issue.

See the FHIR R4 $validate operation for the standard operation definition.

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