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api breaking changes 4.5
September 28, 2014, 06:24:21 pm
I just regenerated the test examples & you can see the changes here

https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/4256

Of note to extension writers there are breaking changes around the soft_credit & honor_contact fields (both breaking of the test contract & non-contract changes) and there are also breaking changes around whether pseudoconstants are returned as values or labels.

To put it simply - beware. The breakages around honor_contact are somewhat predictable but the ones around the psuedoconstants are not.

A key function of the api is to make it possible for extension writers to be more version agnostic with their extensions - rather than having to write a release of the extension per api version. However, this doesn't always happen.
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Re: api breaking changes 4.5
September 29, 2014, 06:56:38 am
Is this something that someone is likely to fix -- or should it just get noted on http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/API+changes ?

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Re: api breaking changes 4.5
September 29, 2014, 12:20:29 pm
It should be fixed - because the point of writing tests is that you write the tests in exchange for the tests being respected. I'm feeling a depressed after discovering this so will think more about it later in the week
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Re: api breaking changes 4.5
October 08, 2014, 02:14:17 am
update - Dave fixed the test-breaking changes - create has been fixed so it still supports honor_contact_id & soft_credit_to
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