PDF FHIR empty search result

Personal Demographics Service (PDS) Personal Demographics Service FHIR API
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Hi, I’m testing the PDS FHIR in the sandbox. When I search with non existing test patient data, instead of getting the Bundle type=searchset with total=0 (what I would expect for a search result without matching patients). I’m getting this:

{
	"resourceType": "OperationOutcome",
	"issue": [
		{
			"severity": "warning",
			"code": "not-supported",
			"diagnostics": "This mock endpoint has no example response for this combination of search parameters"
		}
	],
	"timestamp": "2025-03-27T15:18:10.900Z"
}

Is this by design or is it a bug in the sandbox?

Thanks!

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Hi Pablo,
Yeah this is by design. Other people using it found it counter intuitive that you could get 0 results from a modified search, even if the changes should still result in the patient being returned.
If you send a request outside are defined parameters we give you this response. You can use something like the “Basic search with phone & email negative” scenario to get 0 results.