Docker image for google's Whistle FHIR ingest language
Whistle is google's Data Transformation Language which can be used to transform arbitrary JSON objects into FHIR compliant JSON objects. This repository contains a single docker image suitable to produce a fully functional whistle image and a shell script to make it behave like the actual application would without having to provide the various arguments required for docker to find and call the image.
On Sept 26, 2023, whistle was updated to V2. This new version is currently incompatible with whistler due to some interface changes. It may take some time for me to dig into the changes and better understand what needs to be done to make the new version work with the pipeline. As a result, until Whistler is ready to support V2, this docker image will only build v1.
To use this repository, you should have docker installed as well as a full bash environment to run it in (I will look into Powershell options if there is interest) for those interested in using the install script.
For those who don't care to directly deal with Docker, there is a bash script, simply clone this repository, cd into the root directory and run the install script:
./install.sh
It will copy a script named 'whistle' into $HOME/bin. If that directory isn't in your PATH, you can simply add the following line to the file $HOME/.bash_profile and reload it either by logging in again, or sourcing the file:
(add the following line to the end of your .bash_profile file)
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
(source the .bash_profile to effect the changes you made)
source ~/.bash_profile
Once the whistle script is in your path, whistle should run just like any other command on your system:
whistle --help
It should be noted that this script requires that all files required by whistle to run can be found within the current working directory and that the arguments passed to whistle for those files will be relative to "." (the current working directory), not full paths.