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You can access the patient resource via the following URL:

http://localhost:8086/openmrs/ws/rest/v1/patient
http://<your domain ip: port>/{APP-NAME}/ws/rest/v1/patient

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Identifiers can be expanded to:

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GET /openmrs/ws/rest/v1/location
RESPONSE: a list of locations, e.g. with UUIDs: "8d6c993e-c2cc-11de-8d13-0010c6dffd0f"

You will also need to have a pre-generated identifier for your patient. If you are developing against Reference Application or any distribution, which uses the IDGEN module for patient identifier generation, you will need to send a regular get request. Unfortunately it is not yet exposed as a rest resource (see IDGEN-42). You can use this request for example:

GET openmrs/module/idgen/generateIdentifier.form?source=1
RESPONSE: identifier

Finally you can create a patient for the existing person with UUID "11f40a1b-0337-4652-86fa-18d4461e38a0", identifierType "8d79403a-c2cc-11de-8d13-0010c6dffd0f" and location "8d6c993e-c2cc-11de-8d13-0010c6dffd0f" with the following command:

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You can test the above commands using a command line tool like curl. You will need to call it as follows:

echo '{

	"identifiers": [
		{
		  "identifier":"1234", 
		  "identifierType":"8d79403a-c2cc-11de-8d13-0010c6dffd0f", 
		  "location":"8d6c993e-c2cc-11de-8d13-0010c6dffd0f",
		  "preferred":true
		} ],
	"person":"11f40a1b-0337-4652-86fa-18d4461e38a0"

}' | curl i -u admin:test -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d @ http://localhost:8086/openmrs/ws/rest/v1/patient

JavaScript example

You can also follow this example implemented using jQuery.

Update patient

The patient resource allows only for editing identifiers. You cannot change the associated person to some other person or any of person's properties. That said if you want to update the birthdate or any other property of a person you need to POST to the person resource.