Support for "Quantity" search param type

[jmandel]

Right now the Quantity handler is a copy/paste of Numeric, but it needs to support matching on units as well as greater than + less than searches...

[jawalonoski]

It may be the same issue, or a related issue, but you cannot POST things like Encounter.length because Duration is not properly parsed.

[jmandel]

Thanks Jay! We're working on replacing our API server with a hapi-based implementation, in collaboration with HSPC. So we likely won't get around to fixing this (unless it's actively causing you pain) on our grails architecture. Just to clarify though, are you talking about a problem posting new data to the system, or searching for data that are already in the system?

[jawalonoski]

Interesting decision to go with HAPI.

To clarify, I am talking about posting new data, or updating data, and using Quantities. I haven't tried searching on them [yet], because I was more interested in debugging some issues I had with creating them.

[jmandel]

Oh, wow. That's pretty broken then :) I think we'll probably fix that! Thanks for clarifying.