Constituent
This API manages constituent information and related entities such as addresses, phones, emails, and notes.
Communication preference list (Single constituent)
Returns a list of communication preferences for a constituent. This endpoint will be deprecated in a future version of the Constituent API. Please reference the equivalent endpoint, Constituent solicit code list (Single constituent), in the Communication Preference API instead.
Try itRequest URL
Request parameters
Parameter | Required | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|
constituent_id | Property is required | string | The immutable system record ID of the constituent to retrieve the communication preferences for. |
limit | integer | Represents the number of records to return. The default is 500. The maximum is 5000. |
|
offset | integer | Represents the number of records to skip. For use with pagination. |
Request headers
Header | Required | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Bb-Api-Subscription-Key | Property is required | string | Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile. |
Authorization | Property is required | string | OAuth 2.0 access token obtained from Blackbaud OAuth 2.0 Service. Supported grant types: Authorization code. |
Response 200 OK
Returned when the operation succeeds. The response body contains a collection of communication preference entities.
{
"count": 3,
"value": [
{
"id": "72",
"constituent_id": "280",
"end": "2001-02-23T00:00:00Z",
"solicit_code": "Do not call me after 4pm on wednesdays.",
"start": "1996-01-22T00:00:00Z"
},
{
"id": "73",
"constituent_id": "280",
"end": "2006-02-13T00:00:00Z",
"solicit_code": "Only call me on the 4th of the month, if it is Thursday.",
"start": "2005-04-22T00:00:00Z"
},
{
"id": "74",
"constituent_id": "280",
"end": "2011-04-03T00:00:00Z",
"solicit_code": "Send me newsletter through email, post, and fax.",
"start": "1993-02-22T00:00:00Z"
}
]
}
{
"description": "Fetching data all at once quickly becomes unmanageable. The collection entity helps by returning paginated chunks of large data sets. This entity includes helpful metadata and properties to paginate and iterate through the data.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"count": {
"format": "int32",
"description": "The number of items available for retrieval into the collection after applying any request parameters. The <b>limit</b> and <b>offset</b> parameters do not affect the <b>count</b>, but to facilitate paging, they may affect the number of items in the <b>value</b> result set.",
"type": "integer"
},
"next_link": {
"description": "For paginated responses, the URI for the next page of results.",
"type": "string"
},
"value": {
"description": "The set of items included in the response. This may be a subset of the items in the collection.",
"type": "array",
"items": {
"description": "Communication preferences provide guidance on how to contact constituents. These rules describe instructions and restrictions about when to reach out to constituents and how to tailor communications to honor their requests.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"description": "The immutable system record ID of the communication preference.",
"type": "string"
},
"constituent_id": {
"description": "The immutable system record ID of the constituent associated with the communication preference.",
"type": "string"
},
"end": {
"format": "date-time",
"description": "The end date of the communication preference. Uses <a href=\"https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339\">ISO-8601 format: </a><i>1969-11-21T10:29:43</i>.",
"type": "string",
"x-supports-datetime-offset": false
},
"solicit_code": {
"description": "Communication instructions and/or restrictions for a constituent. Available values are the entries in the <a href=\"https://developer.sky.blackbaud.com/docs/services/56b76470069a0509c8f1c5b3/operations/ListCommunicationPreferences\"><b>Solicit Code</b></a> table.",
"type": "string"
},
"start": {
"format": "date-time",
"description": "The start date of the communication preference. Uses <a href=\"https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339\">ISO-8601 format: </a><i>1969-11-21T10:29:43</i>.",
"type": "string",
"x-supports-datetime-offset": false
}
},
"x-display-name": "Communication preference",
"x-display-id": "CommunicationPreference"
}
}
},
"x-hidden": true,
"x-base-type": "#/definitions/ApiCollection"
}
Response 400 Bad Request
Returned when the specified constituent ID in the request URL or the specified request parameters are not in the appropriate format.
Response 403 Forbidden
Returned when the user does not have permission to view the communication preferences.
Response 404 Not Found
Returned when the specified constituent is not found.
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X GET "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/constituents/{constituent_id}/communicationpreferences?limit={integer}&offset={integer}"
-H "Bb-Api-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access token}"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request headers
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");
// Request parameters
queryString["limit"] = "{integer}";
queryString["offset"] = "{integer}";
var uri = "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/constituents/{constituent_id}/communicationpreferences?" + queryString;
var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
}
}
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/constituents/{constituent_id}/communicationpreferences");
builder.setParameter("limit", "{integer}");
builder.setParameter("offset", "{integer}");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
request.setHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
request.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
"limit": "{integer}",
"offset": "{integer}",
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/constituents/{constituent_id}/communicationpreferences?" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Authorization","Bearer {access token}");
},
type: "GET",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/constituents/{constituent_id}/communicationpreferences";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
@"limit={integer}",
@"offset={integer}",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Bb-Api-Subscription-Key"];
[_request setValue:@"Bearer {access token}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the PEAR HTTP client from http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request2
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/constituents/{constituent_id}/communicationpreferences');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
'Authorization' => 'Bearer {access token}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
'limit' => '{integer}',
'offset' => '{integer}',
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'limit': '{integer}',
'offset': '{integer}',
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
conn.request("GET", "/constituent/v1/constituents/{constituent_id}/communicationpreferences?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'limit': '{integer}',
'offset': '{integer}',
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
conn.request("GET", "/constituent/v1/constituents/{constituent_id}/communicationpreferences?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/constituents/{constituent_id}/communicationpreferences')
query = URI.encode_www_form({
# Request parameters
'limit' => '{integer}',
'offset' => '{integer}'
})
if query.length > 0
if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
uri.query += '&' + query
else
uri.query = query
end
end
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Bb-Api-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer {access token}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body
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