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Erik Hommel

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Soft-deleted contacts in contact_get API
September 15, 2010, 06:45:37 am
When using the contact-get API I also get the soft-deleted contacts in my results. This leads me to a number of questions:
  • I would expect to have a parameter that I can set so I do or do not get soft-deleted contacts. I do not see such a parameter however, is that because I am not looking deep enough or should we stick this on the list for the sprint?
  • From a data management perspective: is there functionality to permanently delete soft-deleted contacts? I could not find it in the documentation. If there is, tell me and I will update the wiki  ;)
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Re: Soft-deleted contacts in contact_get API
September 15, 2010, 08:33:14 am

most of the is_deleted stuff is handled by the permissioning code

the search API in specific bypasses the permissioning code, and hence returns all contacts

i'm pretty sure that the delete_contact API is a permanent deletion. Folks who have access to see deleted contacts have the permission to "permanently" delete a contact

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Re: Soft-deleted contacts in contact_get API
September 15, 2010, 08:44:02 am
I'm afraid I have to correct you there  ;D
The contact_search API is deprecated, the contact_get API should be used (and apparently bypasses the permission code). I will add the addition of an option parameter to include or exclude soft_deleted contact on the list for the sprint API cleanup.
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