Create Constituent endpoint and multiple email addresses
Hello everyone
I am using the POST Constituent API call in order to create a new constituent record. In my POST request, I want to create the constituent with 2 email address records (a business type and a personal type). The guidance has an example of a single email but I want an email array to create the constituent with the 2 email addresses in the one call. Is this possible? Im getting error messages when attempting:
Thank you
Damon
[{"message":"Cannot deserialize the current JSON array (e.g. [1,2,3]) into type 'ConstituentEmailAddressAdd' because the type requires a JSON object (e.g. {\\"name\\":\\"value\\"}) to deserialize correctly.\\r\\nTo fix this error either change the JSON to a JSON object (e.g. {\\"name\\":\\"value\\"}) or change the deserialized type to an array or a type that implements a collection interface (e.g. ICollection, IList) like List<T> that can be deserialized from a JSON array. JsonArrayAttribute can also be added to the type to force it to deserialize from a JSON array.\\r\\nPath 'email', line 1, position 420.","error_code":400,"raw_message":"Cannot deserialize the current JSON array (e.g. [1,2,3]) into type 'ConstituentEmailAddressAdd' because the type requires a JSON object (e.g. {\\"name\\":\\"value\\"}) to deserialize correctly.\\r\\nTo fix this error either change the JSON to a JSON object (e.g. {\\"name\\":\\"value\\"}) or change the deserialized type to an array or a type that implements a collection interface (e.g. ICollection, IList) like List<T> that can be deserialized from a JSON array. JsonArrayAttribute can also be added to the type to force it to deserialize from a JSON array.\\r\\nPath 'email', line 1, position 420."}]
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Hi Damon,
At this time, the endpoint that you're calling doesn't allow providing multiple emails for the constituent - just a single value is supported (you can see this in the docs on the endpoint reference page). So to accomplish this, you'll need to make two API calls:
- First call CreateConstituent to create the constituent with one email address (and to get the ID of the newly created constituent)
- Then call CreateConstituentEmailAddress to create the second email address, providing the ID of the newly created constituent in the request.
I hope this helps - if you'd like, feel free to file a suggestion for this functionality on the idea bank here:
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Thank you for the reply Ben, its much appreciated. Im quite happy to make the two API calls, I just wanted to be sure.
Kind Regards
Damon
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