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Every time a contact has been edited, a third party app should be notified about that. To accomplish this, I'm posting to the third party app (via simple file_get_contents) inside a civicrm_post hook.
After the third party app has been notified, it is requesting the current contact details including the updated values via REST API. So much for the theory.

I have noticed, that the requested values are outdated, when they are request via REST API immediately after the civicrm_post hook has been triggered. Here is my test code to reproduce this weird behavior:

<?php 

/**
 * This hook is called after a db write on some core objects (e.g. contact)
 */
function myhook_civicrm_post( $op, $objectName, $objectId, &$objectRef ) {

if(($objectName != 'Individual') && ($op != 'view')){

$contactId = $objectId;

$postdata = http_build_query(
array(
'api_key' => 'mysupersecretapikey',
'key' => 'mysupersecretsitekey',
'json' => 1,
'version' => 3,
'entity' => 'Contact',
'action' => 'get',
'contact_id' => $contactId
)
);

$opts = array('http' =>
array(
'method'  => 'POST',
'header'  => 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'content' => $postdata
)
);

$context  = stream_context_create($opts);

$restResult = file_get_contents('http://example.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/rest.php', false, $context);

watchdog('Contact Details via REST', '<pre>'. print_r($restResult, TRUE) .'</pre>'); 
// outputs old contact details with unchanged values -> BAD

try{
$params = array(
'version' => 3,
'id' => $contactId
);
$apiResult = civicrm_api('Contact', 'get', $params);

watchdog('Contact Details via civicrm_api', '<pre>'. print_r($apiResult, TRUE) .'</pre>');
// outputs new contact details with changed values -> GOOD
}
catch (CiviCRM_API3_Exception $e) {
$error = $e->getMessage();
}

}

}

?>
It seems to be a timing, thread or cache issue but I have no idea how to find the cause.

By pulling the data the 3rd party app can decide which contact details/fields should be returned. And besides that I don't have control over the 3rd party app. long story