Author Topic: API calls report no error and no return data, huh? (Read 1205 times)

hesco · September 08, 2010, 01:19:33 pm

The docs suggest that every API call to contact_search will return a contact_id,
mine are only returning: {"is_error":0}, which I read to mean there was no error.
But if that is correct, then where are my results?

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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;
use CiviCRM::Client::REST;

my $user = 'hesco';
my $pw = 'my_pw';
my $api_key = 'my_api_key';
my $site_key = 'long_cryptic_site_key';

my $civicrm = CiviCRM::Client::REST->new('http://example.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm', $site_key);
my $credentials = $civicrm->login({ 'name' => $user, 'pass' => $pw, 'api_key' => $api_key });

print STDERR 'The result returned by our login attempts reads: ' . Dumper($credentials);

my $src_data = '/home/hesco/CampaignFoundations/Clients/MyClient/first_call_list.csv';
open('SRC','<',$src_data) or die "Unable to open $src_data " . $! . "\n";

my $count;
while(<SRC>){
  my @phones = split ',',$_;
  foreach my $item (@phones){
    $item =~ s/"//g;
    $item =~ s/\s+//g;
  }
  my ($fname,$lname,$phn_hm,$phn_cl,$phn_wk) = @phones;

  my $args = {  'PHPSESSID' => $credentials->{'PHPSESSID'},
                  'api_key' => $api_key,
             'contact_type' => 'Individual',
               'first_name' => $fname,
                'last_name' => $lname,
                'return.id' => 1,
               'return.cid' => 1,
        'return.contact_id' => 1 };

  my $contacts = $civicrm->contact_search($args);

  print STDERR $_, Dumper($args,$contacts);

  $count++;
  if($count > 4){ last; }
}

close(SRC);
exit;

close(RESULT);

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Erik Hommel · September 09, 2010, 12:07:51 am

I get that situation when there are no contacts to display, so your contact search does not come up with any data. Looking at your code, what is the function of the return.id, return.cid and return.contact_id in your $args array? I have never used those as parms for contact/search.....? But that might well be my ignorance :-)
Erik

Eileen · September 09, 2010, 12:28:59 am

I've updated the WIKI to reflect the fact that contact_search is deprecated

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC32/Contact+APIs

Erik Hommel · September 09, 2010, 12:30:51 am

Thanks Eileen, that makes sense....and I did not think of it alhough I there is a little voice in the back of my mind that says I knew that :-)

Eileen · September 09, 2010, 12:33:08 am

I just went to take a look for the API standards & struggled to find it using a normal search so here's a handy tip - if you ever want to find it just search the wiki for 'orthogonal'

Erik Hommel · September 09, 2010, 12:35:25 am

so hesco, the answer is: use civicrm_contact_get.

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Author Topic: API calls report no error and no return data, huh? (Read 1205 times)

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API calls report no error and no return data, huh?

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