Async operations on FhirClient to take a CancellationToken that is can pass to any web requests it makes

[brianpos]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When performing async requests the ability to provide a cancellation token will assist in permitting cancelling the requests - such as those to a web api - when a call is cancelled. Very useful in terminology validations or resolving resources which may be cancelled too.

Describe the solution you'd like Include the CancellationToken to any async FhirClient calls, and use that on any web/directory async calls it makes.

Additional context Server validations, client validations, or any other async general requests performed. I would like this on the ResourceResolver interfaces too, but can do that seperately.

[holpit]

I was asking exactly the same thing. Votes++

[marcovisserFurore]

I think we can add this to the FhirClient by overloading methods with the parameter CancellationToken. In that way we don't break the code.

[brianpos]

I was going to add it in with an optional parameter with a default value, does that still count as a non-breaking change (have started the work)

[ewoutkramer]

Yes, adding an optional param counts as a non-breaking change (for us ;-)

[ewoutkramer]

We basically strive for updates that won't produce errors when you need to recompile your software when you upgrade the SDK package. So, not necessarily binary compatibility.

[JockeM]

Anything being done on this? If not do you take outside prs?

[brianpos]

I'll check where my code got to.

[aignatovich]

Could anyone confirm if cancellation support was added to one of the latest releases?

[brianpos]

Not as far as I know.

[marcovisserFurore]

Sorry, in some way it lost our attention. We try to add it to the next release (5.0), which is planned for next month (February 2023).

[ewoutkramer]

Done.