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  1. CiviCRM
  2. CRM-13481

Getting a contact by email via the API results in a LIKE query

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          • Type: Bug
          • Status: Done/Fixed
          • Priority: Minor
          • Resolution: Won't Fix
          • Affects Version/s: 4.3.6
          • Fix Version/s: 4.5
          • Component/s: CiviCRM API
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            Description

            Using the CiviCRM API v3, if I try to get a contact by their email address, the email is passed through a LIKE query. For example, putting this query into the API explorer gives back lots of results with GMail addresses:

            /civicrm/ajax/rest?entity=Contact&action=get&debug=1&sequential=1&json=1&email=gmail.com

            Fetching an Email entity only gives exact matches, for example:

            /civicrm/ajax/rest?entity=Email&action=get&debug=1&sequential=1&json=1&email=gmail.com

            Is this the intended behavior? If it is, it isn't documented anywhere, and I didn't expect it.

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                  • Assignee:
                    eileen Eileen McNaughton
                    Reporter:
                    drifteaur Zoltan Varady
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