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I am trying to add custom fields to Relationship through Relationship API.
This is a piece of my codes for adding a relationship:
$relationship_params = array(
'contact_id_a'         => $data['contact_a'],
'contact_id_b'         => $data['new_branch_id'],
'relationship_type_id' => $this->relationship_type_id,
'start_date'           => array('d'=>$r_end_date[0],'M'=>$r_end_date[1],'Y'=>$r_end_date[2]),
'is_active'            => 1,
'custom_56'            => "test custom field"
);

$new_relationship = & civicrm_relationship_create( $relationship_params );

The custom field wasn't added through this params. I have gone through the api/v2/Relationship.php compared with Contact.php and found there is a line in Contact.php
_civicrm_custom_format_params( $params, $values, $params['contact_type'], $entityId );
looks like formating the custom data not in Relationship.php.

Is this a small bug in Relationship API?

Another issue about Relationship API is it doesn't allow me to add same relationship type to same contacts but it allow me to do it in CiviCRM UI. I have to comment
93    $duplicate++;
94    continue;
in CRM/Contact/BAO/Relationship.php to avoid duplicate check for adding new relationship. Is there supposed to be a duplicate check for relationship?

I checked JIRA but can't find any issue about custom data in relationship API.

Hi Lobo

I have filed an issue.
http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-4696

Thank you very much.