Author Topic: Address API issue (Read 826 times)

David L · September 07, 2011, 01:40:07 pm

With API 3, using 'create' has the effect of creating a new record/instance and not modifying an existing one (unless an id is specified).

I am finding though that the Address API is updating rather than creating.

For example, my location_type_id of 1 = 'Home'

Using the code below has the effect of overriding the contact's current Home address and replacing it with this new one, when what I really want to do is add an additional Home address.

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Code: [Select]


	$params = array(
				  'contact_id' => $contact_id,
				  'location_type_id' => 1,
				  'street_address' => $street_address,
				  'postal_code' => $postal_code,
				  'city' => $city,
				  'state_province_id' => $st,
				  'version' => 3,
				);
			
	if (isset($supplemental_address_1) && strlen($supplemental_address_1)) $params['supplemental_address_1'] = $supplemental_address_1;
			
	$address_create = civicrm_api('address', 'create', $params);

xavier · September 07, 2011, 04:19:45 pm

I don't think the model allows to have to addresses at the same location. Can you really do it with the UI? (at least the dedupe seems to have the same constraint): you can't have 2 home locations, only one home and one "other"

This being said, if it's really not allowed to have two addresses for the same location, it should return an error instead of silently update (or at least handle a filter param to choose if it needs to update or error).

Would be create if you could investigate and submit a patch.

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David L · September 08, 2011, 08:12:12 am

xavier, you are spot on, it can't be done via the UI either. My mistake.

Thanks for the clarification.

I'll look into it further when I have a chance.

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