General Ledger
This API is used to manage the general ledger, including accounts, projects, and journal entries. This API has a maximum request size limit of 8mb.
Request URL
Request headers
| Header | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Content-Type | string | Media type of the body sent to the API. | |
| 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. |
Request body
The attachment to create.
{
"parent_id": 1,
"name": "Attachment Name",
"url": "https://www.google.com",
"type": "Link",
"media_type": "Manual"
}{
"required": [
"parent_id",
"name",
"type",
"media_type"
],
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"parent_id": {
"format": "int32",
"description": "The identifier of the parent item for this attachment.",
"type": "integer",
"x-ms-summary": "Parent id"
},
"name": {
"description": "The name of this attachment.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Name"
},
"url": {
"description": "The URL of this attachment.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Url"
},
"type": {
"description": "The attachment type. Available values are Link and Physical. Physical attachments are stored and managed in the system. Link attachments are stored and managed externally. Defaults to Link if not provided.",
"enum": [
"Link",
"Physical"
],
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Type"
},
"media_type": {
"description": "User-defined category of this attachment. Available values are the entries in the Media Type table for the parent record. Use the value types defined in /mediaTypes",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Media type"
},
"file": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ContentLength": {
"format": "int32",
"type": "integer",
"readOnly": true,
"x-ms-summary": "Content length"
},
"ContentType": {
"type": "string",
"readOnly": true,
"x-ms-summary": "Content type"
},
"FileName": {
"type": "string",
"readOnly": true,
"x-ms-summary": "File name"
},
"InputStream": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"CanRead": {
"type": "boolean",
"readOnly": true,
"x-ms-summary": "Can read"
},
"CanSeek": {
"type": "boolean",
"readOnly": true,
"x-ms-summary": "Can seek"
},
"CanTimeout": {
"type": "boolean",
"readOnly": true,
"x-ms-summary": "Can timeout"
},
"CanWrite": {
"type": "boolean",
"readOnly": true,
"x-ms-summary": "Can write"
},
"Length": {
"format": "int64",
"type": "integer",
"readOnly": true,
"x-ms-summary": "Length"
},
"Position": {
"format": "int64",
"type": "integer",
"x-ms-summary": "Position"
},
"ReadTimeout": {
"format": "int32",
"type": "integer",
"x-ms-summary": "Read timeout"
},
"WriteTimeout": {
"format": "int32",
"type": "integer",
"x-ms-summary": "Write timeout"
}
},
"x-display-name": "Stream",
"x-ms-summary": "Input stream",
"readOnly": true
}
},
"x-display-name": "Http posted file base",
"x-ms-summary": "File",
"description": "The uploaded file for this attachment."
}
},
"example": {
"parent_id": 1,
"name": "Attachment Name",
"url": "https://www.google.com",
"type": "Link",
"media_type": "Manual"
},
"x-display-name": "Create attachment",
"x-ms-summary": "Create attachment"
}Response 200 OK
Returned when the operation is successful. The response body contains the file id of the saved attachment.
{
"record_id": 843
}{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"record_id": {
"format": "int32",
"type": "integer",
"x-ms-summary": "Record id"
}
},
"x-hidden": true,
"x-display-name": "Created result `1",
"x-ms-summary": "Created result `1"
}Response 400 Bad Request
Returned when the request is not in the correct format.
{
"Error": "Invalid Request",
"Details": [
"The value 'fake' is not valid for transaction_status."
],
"ErrorPath": null
}{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"Error": {
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Error"
},
"Details": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"x-ms-summary": "Details"
},
"ErrorPath": {
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Error path"
}
},
"x-display-name": "Domain error message",
"x-ms-summary": "Domain error message"
}Response 403 Forbidden
Returned when the user does not have permission to add attachments.
{
"error": "The specified record could not be found. The record has either been deleted or you do not have rights to view it."
}{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"Error": {
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Error"
}
},
"x-display-name": "Basic error message",
"x-ms-summary": "Basic error message"
}Response 404 Not Found
Returned when no project is found with the specified ID.
{
"error": "The specified record could not be found. The record has either been deleted or you do not have rights to view it."
}{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"Error": {
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Error"
}
},
"x-display-name": "Basic error message",
"x-ms-summary": "Basic error message"
}Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X POST "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/generalledger/v1/projects/attachments"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-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}");
var uri = "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/generalledger/v1/projects/attachments?" + queryString;
// Request body
byte[] byteData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{body}");
using (var content = new ByteArrayContent(byteData))
{
content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("< your content type, i.e. application/json >");
var response = await client.PostAsync(uri, content);
}
}
}
}// // 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/generalledger/v1/projects/attachments");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpPost request = new HttpPost(uri);
request.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
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
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/generalledger/v1/projects/attachments?" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/json");
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Authorization","Bearer {access token}");
},
type: "POST",
// 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/generalledger/v1/projects/attachments";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[_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/generalledger/v1/projects/attachments');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
'Authorization' => 'Bearer {access token}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_POST);
// 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
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
conn.request("POST", "/generalledger/v1/projects/attachments?%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
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
conn.request("POST", "/generalledger/v1/projects/attachments?%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/generalledger/v1/projects/attachments')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
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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