Two chained create calls, with the first one creating an array

If you want to create a contact with two phone numbers and one website, and you do this like this:

/dev1/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/rest.php?entity=Contact&action=create&json={"sequential":1,"contact_type":"Individual","first_name":"qwertyuiop","last_name":"asdfghjkl","api.Phone.create":[

{"phone":"1207"}

,

{"phone":"112"}

],"api.Website.create":{"url":"http://www.google.com"}}&api_key=yoursitekey&key=yourkey

You get:

{ "fields":["contact_id"], "error_code":"mandatory_missing", "entity":"Contact", "action":"create", "is_error":1, "error_message":"Error in call to Website_create : Mandatory key(s) missing from params array: contact_id" }

You seem to get this error when you use an array in a first chained call. If you switch the order of the chains, it does work:

/dev1/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/rest.php?entity=Contact&action=create&json={"sequential":1,"contact_type":"Individual","first_name":"qwertyuiop","last_name":"asdfghjkl","api.Website.create":

{"url":"http://www.google.com"}

,"api.Phone.create":[

{"phone":"1207"}

,

{"phone":"112"}

]}&api_key=yoursitekey&key=yourkey

This workaround won't work if you want to add 2 websites and 2 phones at once.

I tried to explicitly add "contact_id":"$value.id" to the second chained call:

/dev1/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/rest.php?entity=Contact&action=create&json={"sequential":1,"contact_type":"Individual","first_name":"qwertyuiop","last_name":"asdfghjkl","api.Phone.create":[

{"phone":"1207"}

,

{"phone":"112"}

],"api.Website.create":{"url":"http://www.google.com","contact_id":"$value.id"}}&api_key=yoursitekey&key=yourkey

I got:

{ "error_field":"contact_id", "type":"integer", "error_code":2001, "entity":"Contact", "action":"create", "is_error":1, "error_message":"Error in call to Website_create : contact_id is not a valid integer" }

I know you will ask for a unit test But I am rather busy for the moment. I hope I will be able to provide one next week.