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API Access to FinancialAccount, EntityFinancialAccount, etc.
May 14, 2014, 05:59:11 am
In a migration I'm working on, using Eileen's excellent civimigrate module, I have a need to lookup financial account information so I can appropriately categorize my imported contributions (my imported contributions are categorized by GL account, so I use this information to figure out which financial type it should be assigned. I see there's no such thing in the API, so I wrote some simple wrappers (I only needed the get function, but did a full work up for completeness).

If anyone sees this as generally useful, I can contribute them in.

I can see that most of the time these are entities that should only be touched indirectly via a contribution, and maybe these should only have a get option.

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Re: API Access to FinancialAccount, EntityFinancialAccount, etc.
May 15, 2014, 05:51:22 pm
This has been worked on a few times - including https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-12764

I think both Lola & later I did write somewhat complex api for that - but I can't find the code either of us wrote. I think Lola's didn't get merged & then a less featured version was added whereas I think I basically threw mine away once the tests started failing on an ongoing basis about 4 months ago on https://test.civicrm.org/ - I took a look & can't find it anywhere. I'm pretty sure it allowed you to retrieve accounting code on contribution get etc
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Re: API Access to FinancialAccount, EntityFinancialAccount, etc.
May 16, 2014, 11:17:13 am
Sounds like you were trying to do something more ambitious within the api. I just wrote the obvious api wrappers that use the DAO interface, and then let my code do the complicated relationship stuff.

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Re: API Access to FinancialAccount, EntityFinancialAccount, etc.
May 16, 2014, 12:58:41 pm
well that's a start! but I feel like it should be possible to retrieve accounting_code without understanding all the under-the-hood complexity
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