Welcome to the VonkLoader documentation

Installing

VonkLoader is a free, multithreaded tool for Windows / macOS / Linux to upload resources in bulk to any FHIR server. To install, go to simplifier.net/downloads and log in.

Running

Available parameters are:

-file:<filename>
    zip file with xml and/or json files with resources, mandatory
-server:<url>
    FHIR server base address, mandatory
-limit:x
    load no more than x resources, default is all the resources in the zip
-parallel:
    how many requests are sent in parallel, default is 10
-collectionHandling: AsIs / Split / Transaction
    AsIs: send a collection Bundle as is (to /Bundle)
    Split: send each of the Bundle.resource's from a collection Bundle separately (STU3 only)
    Transaction: convert the collection Bundle to a transaction Bundle and send it to the server base address (STU3 only)
-forcePutInTransaction: resources in collections that have no id get one and are turned into a PUT entry in the transaction.
    By default they are turned into a POST. Only useful in combination with -collectionHandling:Transaction

See also vonkloader --help on running the tool.

Example:

vonkloader -file:examples-json-stu3.zip -server:http://localhost:4080

// load Synthea zip
vonkloader -file:examples-json-stu3.zip -server:http://localhost:4080 -collectionHandling:Transaction -forcePutInTransaction