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i was doing work with membership and needed to retrieve the membership records for a contact, and identify the owner's contact id (the contact received membership via relationship inheritance; i needed to determine the owner contact).

it was quite cumbersome to do this with the api. actually -- i couldn't do it with the api. i needed to tap into BAO methods. basically the _get api would retrieve the owner's membership id, but not their contact id. and there's no way with the api to pass the membership id parameter and retrieve member details (I would think _get would have supported that). so i had to use BAO functions to get the contact id from the membership id, and then return to the api to get those contact details.

anyway -- i think the _get api should include the contact id of the owner. if the api team concurs, i'll work on a patch.

the owner's membership id is part of the tbl, but not their contact id. which is why its a bit of a pain.
i will look to modify off the v3 api

Brian, note we have changed the membershipcontact to membership in v3 api  - api name should match BAO name should match table name