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I recently tried to create a participant record that was linked to a contribution. This was part of a test set-up but seems like a common 'wild' api usage & I found it problematic & have concerns for people with code that has been working pre-4.3 getting a hidden but undesirable result.

My efforts / notes are here

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-12984?focusedCommentId=51606&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-51606

I'm not terribly keen on the fact that line items link directly to participant records (rather than via contributions) but that aside I feel it should be easier than the above to correctly create this construct. It goes without saying that the logic should live in the BAO layer not the api layer.

Perhaps BAO_Contribution:create should accept params like 'participant_id', 'membership_id' & if passed in it should create line items off them (as appropriate) & also create the participant payment record?

Thoughts?