Issue with Practitioner Reference Search

[emille-alessandre]

After enabling the PractitionerRole profile "practitioner" parameter, we started seeing the following issue with the Practitioner Test Reference test:

Error: undefined method `resourceType' for nil
/usr/local/bundle/gems/inferno_core-1.0.4/lib/inferno/dsl/fhir_client.rb:371:in `block in fetch_all_bundled_resources'

For reference, we recently updated our internal inferno server to version v7.2.6.

[karlnaden]

Based on my reading of the failing line, I believe that this error is caused by a case where a search for PractitionerRole?practitioner=<id> returns a Bundle with an entry with no resource, e.g.,

{
  "resourceType" : "Bundle",
  "entry" : [{
    "fullUrl" : "https://example.com/base/PractitionerRole/3123",
    "search" : {
      "mode" : "match"
    }
  }]
}

Bundle entries in search results are required to contain a resource. Based on that, I suspect there is still an issue in your implementation of the practitioner search parameter. If you provide the responses to the requests made during that test, I can confirm.

The Inferno team will also look at fixing the code to not break in this circumstance.

[emille-alessandre]

Hello! thank you for answering. I checked the response for the previous run. and we do return a resource for that call. The resource attached below. We also deployed the changes to production recently and our implementation is passing the test for the health it inferno. Here is the run.

  "resourceType": "Bundle",
  "type": "searchset",
  "total": 1,
  "entry": [
    {
      "fullUrl": "https://fhir.staging.flatiron.io/fhir/PractitionerRole/UH-B9BLPMQD214KFAE4X35KLT.GH--0648TB2T5CQNQGR2WQQP",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "PractitionerRole",
        "id": "UH-B9BLPMQD214KFAE4X35KLT.GH--0648TB2T5CQNQGR2WQQP",
        "meta": {
          "profile": [
            "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-practitionerrole"
          ]
        },
        "practitioner": {
          "reference": "Practitioner/UH-B9BLPMQD214KFAE4X35KLT.GH--0648TB2T5CQNQGR2WQQP",
          "type": "Practitioner"
        },
        "organization": {
          "reference": "Organization/OR.GH--0648TB2T5CQNQGR2WQQP",
          "type": "Organization"
        },
        "code": [
          null
        ],
        "specialty": [
          {
            "coding": [
              {
                "system": "http://nucc.org/provider-taxonomy",
                "version": "4.0.0",
                "code": "2086X0206X"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "location": [
          {
            "reference": "Location/LH--Kz280320880--54.GH--0648TB2T5CQNQGR2WQQP",
            "type": "Location"
          }
        ],
        "telecom": [
          {
            "system": "phone",
            "value": "(666)666-6666",
            "use": "work"
          }
        ],
        "endpoint": [
          {
            "reference": "Endpoint/UH-B9BLPMQD214KFAE4X35KLT.GH--0648TB2T5CQNQGR2WQQP",
            "type": "Endpoint"
          }
        ]
      },
      "search": {
        "mode": "match"
      }
    }
  ]
}``

[karlnaden]

Great - we will consider the error case around empty Bundle entries as a low priority bug.