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Hi,

Following Eileen's comment (and moving to the forum)

http://civicrm.org/blogs/erikhommel/location-api-obsolete-v3-api-use-address-email-phone-and-website-api#comment-5607

Yes, getfields is the action to get fields (duh) and is the place to add the extra fields (re duh, shame I missed it).

The "problem" is that we will have different fields based on the action (you can use type_name for the create, but not for the get)

I'd suggest to add a param "action" to getfields.  by default, it returns all the fields that might be used for one action or the other, but you can filter to get only those for one action.

eg.

function civicrm_api3_address_getfields ($params) {
initialize
try {
            $dao = civicrm_api3_get_DAO ('address');
            $file = str_replace ('_','/',$dao).".php";
            require_once ($file);
            $d = new $dao();
            $fields= $d->fields();

if (!array_key_exists ('action') || params['action'] == 'create' ||  params['action'] == 'modify') {
  $fields [] = "address_type_name"
}

civicrm_create_success ($fields,$params,$dao);
}

}catch
}