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address and phone can't be chained on contact creation/update?
October 10, 2011, 01:57:33 pm
When I create a new user (or update an existing one) information in api.email.create gets used correctly, but api.phone.create and api.address.create both silently fail.  I'm assuming these chains just haven't been implemented yet (and I haven't figured out where to look yet) but here is the failing params array passed in civicrm_api('Contact','create',@params):
Code: [Select]
Array
(
    [version] => 3
    [contact_type] => Individual
    [first_name] => Doc
    [last_name] => Watson
    [api.phone.create] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [phone] => 800-555-1212
                    [phone_type_id] => 261
                    [location_type_id] => 3
                )

        )
    [api.address.create] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [street_address] => 1 Infinite Loop
                    [city] => Cupertino
                    [postal_code] => 94014
                    [location_type_id] => 2
                    [country_id] => 1228
                    [is_primary] => 1
                )

        )
    [id] => 54321
    [contact_id] => 54321
)
Am I doing something wrong?

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Re: address and phone can't be chained on contact creation/update?
October 10, 2011, 02:41:08 pm
Hi,

Should work by removing one level (the 0) in the api calls:

[api.phone.create] => Array
        (
         
                    [phone] => 800-555-1212
                    [phone_type_id] => 261
                    [location_type_id] => 3
         
        )
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Re: address and phone can't be chained on contact creation/update?
October 10, 2011, 02:49:24 pm
Quote from: xavier on October 10, 2011, 02:41:08 pm
Should work by removing one level (the 0) in the api calls:

Thanks for the reply, but I must admit it seems odd as email and website both take the extra level, and all (email, website, phone and address) can have multiple values (e.g., home and work phones).

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Re: address and phone can't be chained on contact creation/update?
October 10, 2011, 02:55:39 pm
So, multiple values isn't something we've really implemented & the standard is that API shouldn't support it - but some might....

I do think at some point we will have a standard for multiple values but it's more likely to be implemented in the wrapper than the apis so those that do support it are probably, technically, wrong. (although we have to respect any functionality that works & try to keep it working )
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Re: address and phone can't be chained on contact creation/update?
October 10, 2011, 10:23:33 pm
Quote from: fen on October 10, 2011, 02:49:24 pm
Thanks for the reply, but I must admit it seems odd as email and website both take the extra level, and all (email, website, phone and address) can have multiple values (e.g., home and work phones).

api.email.create and api.website.create can have multiple values with 0,1..? Could you post the complete example?

As eileen said, not completely defined how that's supposed to work. We might have a chained api that works both with a single level of attributes or an array of attributes in all cases down the line (did I mention that patches are welcome ? ;)

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Re: address and phone can't be chained on contact creation/update?
October 11, 2011, 12:42:42 am
Actually - I just checked the tests & we have 2 tested syntaxes - including the one you first tried. I set them to generate examples which you can now find

http://svn.civicrm.org/civicrm/branches/v3.4/api/v3/examples/Contact

Not sure why your phone didn't work - did you print the output?

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Re: address and phone can't be chained on contact creation/update?
October 11, 2011, 03:50:23 am
Hi,

Cool, wasn't sure it both syntax were already working. Magic!

You can add a debug=> true param, that should be a bit more verbose

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Re: address and phone can't be chained on contact creation/update?
October 11, 2011, 01:17:22 pm
Yep - couldn't remember what I'd done but I HAD written a test. It's almost enough to encourage me to re-engage with the tests again :-) (but not, actually enough - I figure if other people are putting them in their too-hard basket - http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-8950- I need to learn that lesson)
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