A human-friendly HTML landing page for users resolving URLs within their browser that point to resources on a FHIR server.

This is a pure client-side app that is configured to point to a FHIR endpoint.

• Rendering of raw JSON and XML resources, including pretty-printing and syntax highlighting.
• Rendering of narratives within resources, including proper whitelisting of HTML content as per the FHIR spec.
• Support for basic CSS classes for narratives defined in the FHIR spec: http://hl7.org/fhir/STU3/narrative.html#css
• Support for smart translation of link hrefs within narratives, to ensure appropriate behaviour when following absolute and relative links.
• Support for a custom stylesheet that can be used to override styles within narratives.
• Rendering of ValueSet expansions, including the implicit ValueSet within each CodeSystem.
• Rendering of Bundle resources as an expandable list, with links off to full resources and expansions where available.
• Proper handling of OperationOutcome resources, including rendering of error information contained within OperationOutcome response bodies.

It can be configured with a custom stylesheet to be applied to narratives within FHIR resources.

• Node.js (https://nodejs.org/)
• Yarn (https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install)

yarn
yarn start

Edit public/config.json to customise.

yarn build

Requires the DOCKER_IMAGE environment variable to be set.

yarn dockerize

The Docker image can be configured using the following environment variables:

• HOTSPOT_FHIR_SERVER: The FHIR endpoint used for retrieving requested FHIR resources. The path component of the URL is appended to this value upon each request, e.g. if your HOTSPOT_FHIR_SERVER was http://ontoserver.csiro.au/stu3-latest, then a request with the path /CodeSystem/some-code-system would retrieve the resource from http://ontoserver.csiro.au/stu3-latest/CodeSystem/some-code-system. Defaults to https://ontoserver.csiro.au/stu3-latest.
• HOTSPOT_PROXY_TARGET: The FHIR endpoint used for proxying requests from the Docker container to the FHIR server. This may be different to HOTSPOT_FHIR_SERVER if the FHIR server is referred to by a different hostname when viewed from your Hotspot Docker container.
• HOTSPOT_FHIR_VERSION: The version of FHIR (x.y.z) assumed to be in use by the FHIR server. Defaults to 3.0.1.
• HOTSPOT_PATH_PREFIX: A prefix to append to all routes within the Hotspot application (eg. /someprefix/fhir/CodeSystem). Defaults to ''. Note that this does not affect requests from Hotspot to the FHIR server, these requests are controlled solely by the HOTSPOT_FHIR_SERVER variable.
• HOTSPOT_NARRATIVE_STYLES: A URL to a custom stylesheet to override styles within narrative content.
• HOTSPOT_PATH_ROUTES: Provides a means of specifying custom path routing rules (see Path Routing).

version: "3"

services:
  polecat:
    image: hotspot
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    environment:
      HOTSPOT_FHIR_SERVER: https://ontoserver.csiro.au/stu3-latest
      HOTSPOT_FHIR_VERSION: 3.0.1
      HOTSPOT_NARRATIVE_STYLES: /agency-narrative.css
      HOTSPOT_PATH_ROUTES: "[{ 'matchPattern': '.*', 'removeParams': [ '_format' ] }]"

This expands upon the official Ontoserver Docker Compose example.

version: '2'
volumes:
  onto:
    driver: local
  pgdata:
    driver: local
services:
  db:
    image: postgres
    volumes:
      - pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
  ontoserver:
    image: aehrc/ontoserver:ctsa-5.1
    container_name: ontoserver
    depends_on:
      - db
    expose:
      - "8080"
    environment:
      - authentication.oauth.endpoint.client_id.0=NCTS_ACCESS_CODE
      - authentication.oauth.endpoint.client_secret.0=NCTS_CLIENT_SECRET
      - JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx4G        # Minimum
#      - JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx8G      # Preferred
    volumes:
      - onto:/var/onto
  hotspot:
    image: hotspot
    ports:
      - '80:80'
    depends_on:
      - ontoserver
    environment:
      - HOTSPOT_FHIR_SERVER=http://somedomain.com/fhir
      - HOTSPOT_PROXY_TARGET=http://ontoserver:8080/fhir
      - HOTSPOT_PATH_PREFIX=/fhir
      - HOTSPOT_NARRATIVE_STYLES=/agency-narrative.css

Path routing rules can be used to disallow requests that would otherwise render Hotspot to be non-performant.

For example, when receiving a request at <FHIR_ENDPOINT>/CodeSystem you may want to redirect the client to a URL that limits the amount of data that would otherwise be returned (--> <FHIR_ENDPOINT>/CodeSystem?_elements=id,name,status).

Another common example would be to strip the _format parameter (eg. <FHIR_ENDPOINT>/metadata?_format=xml --> <FHIR_ENDPOINT>/metadata). When provided with a location, with a pathname that matches a rule in the pathRoute config, the corresponding rule is applied to the redirect URL.

NOTE: matchPattern supports regular expressions.

Actions that can be applied to a match include:

• addSuffix: Append a suffix to the provided pathname (NOTE: it will add a slash between the existing path and suffix).
• removeParams: If the provided query string contains a parameter listed in 'removeParams', it will be removed from the redirect query string.
• addParams: If the provided query string does not contain the params defined in "addParams", they will be added to the redirect query string.

A message can also be associated with each rule, which will be displayed on the page when the rule has been applied. An example of this is a message which informs the user that some of the information has been trimmed from the response.

To log re-route message:

• id: An key to uniquely identify each routing rule.
• message: An informational message to be reported, after the client is re-routed.

{
  "fhirServer": "https://api.healthterminologies.gov.au/integration/v2/fhir",
  "fhirVersion": "3.0.1",
  "narrativeStyles": "/hotspot/agency-narrative.css",
  "pathPrefix": "/integration/v2/fhir",
  "pathRoutes": [
    {
      "id": "00",
      "message":
        "The '_format' parameter has been removed from the provided URL. It is not supported via the browser representation of this terminology server.",
      "matchPattern": ".*",
      "removeParams": ["_format"]
    },
    {
      "id": "01",
      "matchPattern": "/integration/v2/fhir[/]*$",
      "addSuffix": "metadata"
    },
    {
      "id": "02",
      "message":
        "Please be aware that you are viewing a subset of this bundle. The 'concept' attribute has been deliberately excluded from this view. The full content of each resource can be viewed, via the 'Full Resource' button.",
      "matchPattern": "/CodeSystem[/]*$",
      "addParams": {
        "_elements": [
          "resourceType",
          "id",
          "meta",
          "implicitRules",
          "language",
          "text",
          "contained",
          "extension",
          "modifierExtension",
          "url",
          "identifier",
          "version",
          "name",
          "title",
          "status",
          "experimental",
          "date",
          "publisher",
          "contact",
          "description",
          "useContext",
          "jurisdiction",
          "purpose",
          "copyright",
          "caseSensitive",
          "valueSet",
          "hierarchyMeaning",
          "compositional",
          "versionNeeded",
          "content",
          "count",
          "filter",
          "property"
        ],
        "_count": 100
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "03",
      "message":
        "Please be aware that you are viewing a subset of this bundle. The 'compose' attribute has been deliberately excluded from this view. The full content of each resource can be viewed, via the 'Full Resource' button.",
      "matchPattern": "/ValueSet[/]*$",
      "addParams": {
        "_elements": [
          "resourceType",
          "id",
          "meta",
          "implicitRules",
          "language",
          "text",
          "contained",
          "extension",
          "modifierExtension",
          "url",
          "identifier",
          "version",
          "name",
          "title",
          "status",
          "experimental",
          "date",
          "publisher",
          "contact",
          "description",
          "useContext",
          "jurisdiction",
          "immutable",
          "purpose",
          "copyright",
          "extensible",
          "expansion"
        ],
        "_count": 100
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "04",
      "message":
        "Please be aware that you are viewing a subset of this bundle. The 'group' attribute has been deliberately excluded from this view. The full content of each resource can be viewed, via the 'Full Resource' button.",
      "matchPattern": "/ConceptMap[/]*$",
      "addParams": {
        "_elements": [
          "resourceType",
          "id",
          "meta",
          "implicitRules",
          "language",
          "text",
          "contained",
          "extension",
          "modifierExtension",
          "url",
          "identifier",
          "version",
          "name",
          "title",
          "status",
          "experimental",
          "date",
          "publisher",
          "contact",
          "description",
          "useContext",
          "jurisdiction",
          "purpose",
          "copyright",
          "source",
          "target"
        ],
        "_count": 100
      }
    }
  ]
}

• Pagination of ValueSet expansions and Bundle entries.
• Rendering of Parameters resources.
• Support for Image References (http://hl7.org/fhir/STU3/narrative.html#id).