Gift
This API manages gift information and related entities such as gift splits, gift fundraisers, and soft credits.
Request URL
Request parameters
Parameter | Required | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|
acknowledgement_id | Property is required | string | The immutable system record ID of the gift acknowledgement to edit. It uses the parent gift's ID as its value. |
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
An object that represents the properties of the gift acknowledgement to edit.
{
"date": "2018-12-31T00:00:00Z",
"letter": "New Letter",
"status": "Acknowledged"
}
{
"description": "Acknowledgement letters foster relationships with donors and show appreciation for their contributions. It is important to keep track of the acknowledgement status of gifts to ensure that each one gets a well-deserved thank you.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"date": {
"format": "date-time",
"description": "The date associated with the acknowledgement. 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
},
"letter": {
"description": "The letter associated with the acknowledgement.",
"type": "string"
},
"status": {
"description": "The status of the acknowledgement. Available values are: <i>ACKNOWLEDGED</i>, <i>NEEDSACKNOWLEDGEMENT</i>, and <i>DONOTACKNOWLEDGE.</i>\r\nWhen <code>acknowledgement_status</code> is set to <i>DONOTACKNOWLEDGE</i>, <code>acknowledgement_letter</code> and <code>acknowledgement_date</code> should be null.\r\nWhen it is set to <i>NEEDSACKNOWLEDGEMENT</i>, <code>acknowledgement_date</code> should be null.",
"type": "string"
}
},
"x-display-name": "Edit Acknowledgement",
"x-display-id": "EditAcknowledgement"
}
Response 200 OK
OK
{}
{
"type": "object"
}
Response 400 Bad Request
Returned when the specified acknowledgement ID in the URL or the specified request body is not in the appropriate format.
Response 403 Forbidden
Returned when the user does not have permission to edit the gift acknowledgement.
Response 404 Not Found
Returned when the specified gift acknowledgement is not found.
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X PATCH "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/gift/v1/giftacknowledgements/{acknowledgement_id}"
-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/gift/v1/giftacknowledgements/{acknowledgement_id}?" + 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 request = new HttpRequestMessage(new HttpMethod("PATCH"), uri);
request.Content = content;
var response = await client.SendAsync(request);
}
}
}
}
// // 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/gift/v1/giftacknowledgements/{acknowledgement_id}");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpPatch request = new HttpPatch(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/gift/v1/giftacknowledgements/{acknowledgement_id}?" + $.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: "PATCH",
// 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/gift/v1/giftacknowledgements/{acknowledgement_id}";
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:@"PATCH"];
// 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/gift/v1/giftacknowledgements/{acknowledgement_id}');
$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_PATCH);
// 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("PATCH", "/gift/v1/giftacknowledgements/{acknowledgement_id}?%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("PATCH", "/gift/v1/giftacknowledgements/{acknowledgement_id}?%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/gift/v1/giftacknowledgements/{acknowledgement_id}')
request = Net::HTTP::Patch.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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