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Hi Guys and Gals,

I'm in the process of importing  historical events but I can't seem to find any documentation on how to import Event locations via the API?

From entity 'event', action 'getfields':

      "loc_block_id":{
         "name":"loc_block_id",
         "type":1,
         "FKClassName":"CRM_Core_DAO_LocBlock"
      },

The 'Location' entity returns the following for action 'create':

{
   "is_error":1,
   "error_message":"API (Location,Create) does not exist, use the Address\/Phone\/Email\/Website API instead",
   "obsoleted":true
}

I can't seem to find anything in the API explorer under Address/Phone/Email/Website entities that gives me any clues...

I can see that the `civicrm_loc_block` table holds a simple relationship between eventids and address,phone, and website id's but I can't seem to find any documentation on the "proper" API method to populate this table.

Any ideas, perchance?

Thanks for the tip Xavier,

I created LocBlock.php based on Email.php and I now have 'LocBlock' in the API explorer and can successfully run a "getfields" action.
(I'm using "require_once 'CRM/Core/BAO/Location.php';" instead of Email.php)

Whenever I try much else though, I get :

{
"is_error":1,
"error_message":"API (LocBlock,create) does not exist (join the API team and implement it!)"
}

Hi,

Likely you didn't create the functions with the right names

http://civicrm.org/API_version_3

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/How+to+migrate+or+write+an+api

Would be super useful you update the wiki once you have figured it out

Hi,

@DerekL
Damn, you hit one of the "not complete, can't use in a generic way BAOs" ;(
That's one of the issue discussed there.
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,23974.msg100896.html#msg100896

btw, would have it be useful to have the name of the function that we are looking for in the civicrm_api as part of the error message?

@eileen,

Should we default (if no add or create)
$dao = new _DAO();
copy attributes
$dao->save();

or better decide if we go add or create and stick it in the CRM_Core_DAO so we know if works

X+

I'm flailing here.

I don't quite know how to point locblock create to the Location BAO.

I'm trying something like this :

function civicrm_api3_loc_block_create( $params )
{
    return _civicrm_api3_basic_create(CRM_Core_BAO_Location::Create($params));
}
And getting this back:
{
"is_error":1,
"error_message":"Entity not created, missing create or add method for Array",
"xdebug":{
"peakMemory":107776848,
"memory":107630256,
"timeIndex":5.9020569324493
}
}

    return _civicrm_api3_basic_create('CRM_Core_BAO_Location',($params));

See http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-11961