Asynchronous processing
Pathling implements the Asynchronous Request Pattern within the FHIR specification, to provide a way to execute long-running requests and check on their progress using a status endpoint.
Add a Prefer: respond-async header to your request to indicate that you want
to use asynchronous processing. A 202 Accepted response will be returned,
along with a Content-Location header indicating the URL of the status
endpoint.
The following operations support async:
Async job references are stored in memory. If the server is restarted before the completion of the job, the initiation request will need to be resent.
If you're using JavaScript, you can use the pathling-client NPM package which features support for calling Pathling operations using the async pattern.
Examples
Check out example async requests in the Postman collection:
