validate

Used internally by the SDK to determine if this DexCarePatient has sufficient information to schedule a virtual visit.

When validating PatientDemographics, only the first entry in the demographicsLinks list is used. The first entry in the list is assumed to be the most up-to-date demographics and is used internally for network calls.

This method checks the following in order:

• demographicsLinks is not empty.

• firstName is not empty.

• lastName is not empty.

• phone is not empty.

• phone is valid per PhoneValidator.isValid. The phone number string is stripped of any special characters before validation, using PhoneValidator.removeSpecialCharacters.

• email is not empty.

• email is valid per EmailValidator.isValid.

• address.postalCode is valid per ZipCodeValidator.isValid.

• patientGuid is not empty.

Return

A MissingInformationError with an error string identifying one of the above issues, or null if the object passes validation.