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I've been debugging a weird problem with an API search under 1.9:  I pass $returnedValues looking like this, but the custom fields do not return:

  $return_properties =
    array('return.contact_id' => 1,
          'return.email' => 1,
          'return.display_name' => 1,
          'return.do_not_email' => 1,
          'return.custom_3' => 1,  //membercountry
          'return.country' => 1,
          'return.custom_4' => 1,  //memberchapter
          );
  $search_params =
    array('contact_id' => $contact_id,
          );
  $search_params = array_merge($search_params, $return_properties);
  require_once 'api/v2/Contact.php';
  $contacts = civicrm_contact_search($search_params);

After many joyful hours in the debugger, I've discovered that the ACL system won't allow me to get returned values out of anything that references civicrm_custom_group -- i.e., I can't get any custom data back.  The problem seems to be around line 230 in CRM/Core/BAO/CustomField.php:

            // also get the permission stuff here
       require_once 'CRM/Core/Permission.php';
            $permissionClause = CRM_Core_Permission::customGroupClause( CRM_Core_Permission::VIEW,
                                                                        "{$cgTable}." );
This returns "(0)"  for the current user, blocking access to any and all custom data.

Lobo checked this in at r8515.  What does this do, really?