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I'm new to CiviCRM and the API, so apologies if I'm just making some basic mistake.  I can't get this to work either on my own Joomla / CiviCRM 4.5.8 test system, or in the joomla sandbox.

If I create some contributions, then use the API explorer or my own hooks to try to get the financial_type_id, it isn't returned.  For example, after creating one "Donation" and one "Member Dues" contribution in the sandbox, I used the api explorer to set up:

$result = civicrm_api3('Contribution', 'get', array(
  'sequential' => 1,
  'return' => "financial_type_id,total_amount",
));

But the results don't include that field:

{
   "is_error":0,
   "version":3,
   "count":2,
   "values":[{
      "contact_id":"3",
      "contribution_id":"1",
      "total_amount":"10.00",
      "id":"1"
   },
   {
      "contact_id":"3",
      "contribution_id":"2",
      "total_amount":"10.00",
      "id":"2"
   }]

I encountered a similar problem earlier, maybe with Contacts, where a requested field wasn't returned unless I also specified other field(s), but I don't remember the details now...if I run into that again, I'll post details.

Thanks for any help!