Proposal to be able to chain APIs calls

[xavier]

Hi,

Was thinking both of a system to make the rest interface more reactive (avoid a lot of http requests) and provide a simple tool to populate the db for the unit test.

What about having a
[{
api:"civicrm_tag_create",
param:{name:"tag name", description:"bla blabla"}
return:tag
},{
api:"civicrm_contact_create",
param:{contact_type:"Individual"...}
return:contact
},{
api:"civicrm_entitytag_create",
param:{tag_id:return.tag.tag_id, contact_id:return.contact.contact_id}
return:result
}]

Ie, with adding a simple tool to get the result, assign it to a return.xxx attribute, and being able to reuse it on a next step, we got something that will probably cover most of the cases.


Added bonus: if it works for initializing the tests, should work as well to do quick an dirty imports.

What do you think? Shall I add it on the Bristol codesprint thread ?

[Erik Hommel]

I think it is a great idea, put it on the list :-)
Erik