---
title: "POST /v1/{+parent}/fhir/Binary"
method: POST
path: "/v1/{+parent}/fhir/Binary"
tags: ["projects"]
---

# POST /v1/{+parent}/fhir/Binary

`POST /v1/{+parent}/fhir/Binary`

Creates a FHIR Binary resource. This method can be used to create a Binary resource either by using one of the accepted FHIR JSON content types, or as a raw data stream. If a resource is created with this method using the FHIR content type this method's behavior is the same as [`fhir.create`](https://cloud.google.com/healthcare-api/docs/reference/rest/v1/projects.locations.datasets.fhirStores.fhir/create). If a resource type other than Binary is used in the request it's treated in the same way as non-FHIR data (e.g., images, zip archives, pdf files, documents). When a non-FHIR content type is used in the request, a Binary resource will be generated, and the uploaded data will be stored in the `content` field (`DSTU2` and `STU3`), or the `data` field (`R4` and `R5`). The Binary resource's `contentType` will be filled in using the value of the `Content-Type` header, and the `securityContext` field (not present in `DSTU2`) will be populated from the `X-Security-Context` header if it exists. At this time `securityContext` has no special behavior in the Cloud Healthcare API. Note: the limit on data ingested through this method is 1 GB. For best performance, use a non-FHIR data type instead of wrapping the data in a Binary resource. Some of the Healthcare API features, such as [exporting to BigQuery](https://cloud.google.com/healthcare-api/docs/how-tos/fhir-export-bigquery) or [Pub/Sub notifications](https://cloud.google.com/healthcare-api/docs/fhir-pubsub#behavior_when_a_fhir_resource_is_too_large_or_traffic_is_high) with full resource content, do not support Binary resources that are larger than 10 MB. In these cases the resource's `data` field will be omitted. Instead, the "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/data-absent-reason" extension will be present to indicate that including the data is `unsupported`. On success, an empty `201 Created` response is returned. The newly created resource's ID and version are returned in the Location header. Using `Prefer: representation=resource` is not allowed for this method. The definition of the Binary REST API can be found at https://hl7.org/fhir/binary.html#rest.

## Path parameters

- `parent` string, required

## Request body

- HttpBody — Message that represents an arbitrary HTTP body. It should only be used for payload formats that can't be represented as JSON, such as raw binary or an HTML page. This message can be used both in streaming and non-streaming API methods in the request as well as the response. It can be used as a top-level request field, which is convenient if one wants to extract parameters from either the URL or HTTP template into the request fields and also want access to the raw HTTP body. Example: message GetResourceRequest { // A unique request id. string request_id = 1; // The raw HTTP body is bound to this field. google.api.HttpBody http_body = 2; } service ResourceService { rpc GetResource(GetResourceRequest) returns (google.api.HttpBody); rpc UpdateResource(google.api.HttpBody) returns (google.protobuf.Empty); } Example with streaming methods: service CaldavService { rpc GetCalendar(stream google.api.HttpBody) returns (stream google.api.HttpBody); rpc UpdateCalendar(stream google.api.HttpBody) returns (stream google.api.HttpBody); } Use of this type only changes how the request and response bodies are handled, all other features will continue to work unchanged.
  - `extensions` object[] — Application specific response metadata. Must be set in the first response for streaming APIs.
  - `data` string, byte — The HTTP request/response body as raw binary.
  - `contentType` string — The HTTP Content-Type header value specifying the content type of the body.

## Response `200`

Successful response

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