Update a contact

Edit an existing contact in your company contact list

 put https://api.constructiononline.com/api/Contacts?id={id}

This endpoint allows users to edit an existing contact within their company contact list. Users can update any of the contact's properties, such as email address, phone or trade. To update a contact, users must know the unique numerical ID assigned to the contact. Users should enter the properties to be updated in the payload/body of the request. Only the properties specified in the payload will be updated—all other properties will remain as is.

Requests

REQUIRED PARAMETERS

ID: integer

  • Unique identifier for the contact.
Example request URL:
  • https://api.constructiononline.com/api/Contacts?id=1234567

PAYLOAD EXAMPLE

Properties should be entered as JSON key-value pairs, as seen below:

{

"EMAIL":"alice@conwayconstruction.com",
"ADDRESS":"1420 Piedmont Ave",
"CITY":"Atlanta"
"STATE":"Georgia",
"ZIPCODE":"30002"

}

Example requests in cURL, C#, Python, and JavaScript can be found below:

cURL

# replace {email} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
# {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
# {apikey} with your provided API key
# {id} with the contact's ID
# {data} with the payload containing the contact properties


curl -X PUT https://api.constructiononline.com/api/Contacts?id={id} -d '{data}'-u {email}:{password} -H 'APIKey:{apikey}'

C#

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
           {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
         {apikey} with your provided API key
{id} with the contact's ID */

public string MakeRequest(string endpoint, string payload) {
              string username = {username};
              string password = {password};
              string apiKey = {apikey};
                string response = "";
                var handler = new HttpClientHandler() { AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip };
                using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler)) {
                    client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://api.constructiononline.com");
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(username + ":" + password)));
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("APIKey", apiKey);
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
                    HttpContent content = new StringContent(payload, System.Text.Encoding.UTF32, "application/json");
                    response = client.PutAsync(endpoint, content).Result.ToString();
                }
                return response;
            }
          MakeRequest(MakeRequest("api/Contacts?id={id}");

Python

#replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
#{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
#{apikey} with your provided API key
#{id} with the contact's ID

import base64, requests, json

 #Global Variables
  apikey = {apikey}
  username = {username}
  password = {password}

  #Functions
   def makeRequest(endpoint, payload):
         url = "https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint
          userPass = username + ":" + password  
          headers = {
                  "APIKey": apikey,
                    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
                    "Authorization": "Basic " + base64.b64encode(userPass.encode()).decode(),
                }
                response = requests.request("PUT", url, headers=headers, data=payload)
                return json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), indent=2)   
            #Main Program 
          print(makeRequest("api/Contacts?id={id}")

JavaScript

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
           {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
           {apikey} with your provided API key
{id} with the contact's ID */

 username = '{username}';
password = '{password}';
apikey = '{apikey}';

     function makeRequest(endpoint, payload) {
         auth = btoa('${username}:${password}');
         var myHeaders = new Headers();
         myHeaders.append("APIKey", apikey);
         myHeaders.append("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate, br");
         myHeaders.append("Authorization", "Basic ${auth}");
            var requestOptions = {
                    method: 'PUT',
                    body: '',
                    headers: myHeaders,
                    redirect: 'follow'
                };
                fetch("https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint, requestOptions)
                    .then(response => response.text())
                    .then(result => console.log(result))
                    .catch(error => console.log('error', error));
                return response;
            };
          makeRequest("api/Contacts?id={id}");

Responses

green 200: Success

A successful request will return a 200 response with a record of the edited contact in the body.

A sample response and property definitions can be found here

red 404: Error

The server was not able to locate the resource specified in the request. The ID may have been entered incorrectly or a contact with the entered ID does not exist.

red 429: Error

The user has surpassed the request rate limit for the hour, day, week, or month.

 red 500: Error

There was an internal server error and the server was unable to complete the request.

 

Last updated: Dec 21, 2023