Filter resources before generating patients

[willdalh]

Hi!

The change from #1178 is great, and makes it easier to manage the generated patients when irrelevant resource types are not exported. However, I would like to see a way of filtering out some resources during generation, mainly to reduce execution time.

I understand that this should only work with resources that are not dependencies of other resource types. In my case, I would like to avoid generating Claim, ExplanationOfBenefit and Coverage.

Is there any way to achieve this at the current state of Synthea without modifying the code? If not, I can open a feature request for this.

Note: #1114 seems to want the inverse case, specifying inclusion. Rather, I want to specify exclusion.

[lhs-open]

Are you asking how to exclude certain record files? The parameter exporter.csv.excluded_files of similar can set a list of output files to exclude.