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 parameters
| Parameter | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| project_id | Property is required | integer | The project to which to add this contact. |
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 contact and address information to add.
{
"description": "New Address",
"country": "United States",
"city": "Charleston",
"county": "Charleston",
"state": "SC",
"address_line": "123 Fake Street",
"postal": "29492",
"title": "Mr",
"first_name": "Mike",
"middle_name": "Robert",
"last_name": "G.",
"suffix": "Sr",
"position": "CEO",
"organization": "The Big Business",
"address_contact_methods": [
{
"contact_type": "Business",
"contact_info": "843-867-5309"
}
]
}{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"description": {
"description": "The description for this address.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Description"
},
"country": {
"description": "The country for the address.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Country"
},
"city": {
"description": "The city for the address.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "City"
},
"county": {
"description": "The county for this address.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "County"
},
"state": {
"description": "The state or province (or suburb in NZ) for the address.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "State"
},
"address_line": {
"description": "The street information / address line for this address.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Address line"
},
"postal": {
"description": "Refers to the Postal Code or ZIP of the address.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Postal"
},
"title": {
"description": "The title for the primary contact.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Title"
},
"first_name": {
"description": "The first name of the primary contact.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "First name"
},
"middle_name": {
"description": "The middle initial or name of the primary contact.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Middle name"
},
"last_name": {
"description": "The last name of the primary contact.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Last name"
},
"suffix": {
"description": "The suffix of the primary contact.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Suffix"
},
"position": {
"description": "The position of the primary contact.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Position"
},
"organization": {
"description": "The organization with which the primary contact is associated.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Organization"
},
"address_contact_methods": {
"description": "The list of contact methods for this address.",
"type": "array",
"items": {
"description": "Address information",
"required": [
"contact_type",
"contact_info"
],
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"contact_type": {
"description": "The type of contact (email, phone, etc).",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Contact type"
},
"contact_info": {
"description": "The contact information (email address, phone number, etc) for this method.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Contact info"
}
},
"x-hidden": true,
"x-display-name": "Create address contact method",
"x-ms-summary": "Create address contact method"
},
"x-ms-summary": "Address contact methods"
}
},
"example": {
"description": "New Address",
"country": "United States",
"city": "Charleston",
"county": "Charleston",
"state": "SC",
"address_line": "123 Fake Street",
"postal": "29492",
"title": "Mr",
"first_name": "Mike",
"middle_name": "Robert",
"last_name": "G.",
"suffix": "Sr",
"position": "CEO",
"organization": "The Big Business",
"address_contact_methods": [
{
"contact_type": "Business",
"contact_info": "843-867-5309"
}
]
},
"x-hidden": true,
"x-display-name": "Create contact address",
"x-ms-summary": "Create contact address"
}Response 200 OK
Returned when the operation is successful. The response body contains the identifier for the new contact.
{
"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 create a project contact.
{
"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 the specified project could not be found.
{
"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/{project_id}/contacts"
-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/{project_id}/contacts?" + 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/{project_id}/contacts");
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/{project_id}/contacts?" + $.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/{project_id}/contacts";
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/{project_id}/contacts');
$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/{project_id}/contacts?%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/{project_id}/contacts?%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/{project_id}/contacts')
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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