Compression for FHIR responses?

[Ólafur Gauti Guðmundsson]

Hi all,

Is there no support in Google Cloud Healthcare API FHIR stores for compressing large responses?

We are sending the following request header:

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br

...but the response is always uncompressed, even though it is 500Kb or larger. 

Compression would give huge benefits for us in terms of transfer time.

For example, a 412K search response gzipped went down to 24K, or 6% of the original size. 

Is there a way to turn on compression?

Many thanks for your help.

Best regards, 

Olafur

[Truc Le]

Hi Olafur,

Please note that the Cloud Healthcare FHIR API does not currently support compression.

We encourage you to submit a feature request detailing the specific API methods for which you would like to see compression enabled.

Best,

Truc

[Ólafur Gauti Guðmundsson]

Thanks for your response - I have submitted a feature request: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/430235356