Custom fields can be set on the Donations and People APIs, and will also be included in all person resource and donation resource responses.

Example

If your nation cares about the height of a person, their favorite movie, whether they are students and when they watch movies, you could register custom fields using the control panel as follows:

Having these fields defined for your nation they will be listed for each person, with their default value being null. Use the create and update endpoints to set a value for these fields.

Retrieving custom field values

Custom fields will be listed among the regular person and donation resource fields.

Example

Assuming you have a person with id 672, make a request like this:

GET /api/v1/people/672

You will receive a response of status 200, with response body like this:

{
  "person": {
    "id": 672,
    "first_name": "Byron",
    "last_name": "Anderson",
    "email": "[email protected]",

    ...

    "height": "55",
    "favorite_movie": "Gone with the wind",
    "is_student": false,
    "best_time_to_call": "Anytime"
  }
}

Setting custom field values

Use the create and update endpoints to set a value for these fields.

Example

Assuming you have a person with id 672, make a request like this:

PUT /api/v1/people/672

With request body like this:

{
  "person": {
    "height": 72,
    "favorite_movie": "Star Wars",
    "is_student": true,
    "best_time_to_call": "Evenings only"
  }
}

You will receive a response of status 200, with response body like this:

{
  "person": {
    "id": 43968,
    "external_id": "781986",
    "first_name": "Byron",
    "last_name": "Anderson",
    "email": "[email protected]",

    ...

    "height": 72.0,
    "favorite_movie": "Star Wars",
    "is_student": true,
    "best_time_to_call": "Evenings only"
  }
}

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