Details
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Type:
New Feature
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Status: Done/Fixed
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Fixed/Completed
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Affects Version/s: 4.7.8
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Fix Version/s: 4.7.11
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Component/s: CiviCRM API
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Labels:
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Documentation Required?:Developer Doc
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Sprint:4.7.10 api, 4.7.11 API
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Funding Source:Contributed Code
Description
A generic validate action to verify the correctness of an API action w.r.t the given parameters.
$result = civicrm_api3('Contact', 'validate', array('action' => 'create', 'params' => array('first_name' => 'batman'));
Use-case:
try {
$result = civicrm_api3('Contribution', 'validate', array('action' => 'create', 'params' => array('start_date' => 'banana'));
$result = civicrm_api3('Contribution', 'create', array(array('start_date' => 'banana'));
}
catch (CiviCRM_API3_Exception $e) {
foreach ($e->getErrors() as $key => $value) }
// do something
}
}