Python resource validation example

validate_resource.py

import json
from fhirclient.models.fhirabstractbase import FHIRValidationError
from fhirclient.models.fhirelementfactory import FHIRElementFactory

resource = json.loads("""{
  "resourceType": "Condition",
  "patient": {
    "reference": "Patient/123"
  }
}""")

assert "resourceType" in resource, \
        "Resource has no resourceType: {res}".format(res=resource)
try:
  FHIRElementFactory.instantiate(resource['resourceType'], resource)
except FHIRValidationError as e:
  print(e)
  
"""
Results in:

{root}:
  'Non-optional property "code" on <fhirclient.models.condition.Condition object at 0x7f799a39bd10> is missing'
  'Non-optional property "verificationStatus" on <fhirclient.models.condition.Condition object at 0x7f799a39bd10> is missing'

"""