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I backported API3 onto our 3.3.5 codebase yesterday and used it for the first time in a module

Once I took a look at what I had writted I realised that the first thing I had done was write a wrapper! The wrapper is effectively what Andreas suggested in an e-mail - adding a 'GetByID' action. It now seems to me it might be good to add this now. Beyond the fact that it seems really useful once you actually start using the API I can see a couple of other advantages:

1) The update API could call it & any handling for the 'id' vs 'entity_id' (if required) could be managed by it.
2) We could add a test for it in the APIStandards test class & identify any API which DON'T take 'id' for GET


/*
 * Get contact Details out of CiviCRM
 */

function getContactDetailsFromCivi($contactID){
  require_once 'api/api.php';
  $params = array('id'  => $contactID,
                   'version'  => 3,);
  $contact = civicrm_api('Contact', 'Get', $params);
  return($contact['values'][$contact['id']]);
 
}