CRM-21049 - Allow creating relationship types with no contact type specified

[MegaphoneJon]

Overview

The API currently doesn't allow creating a relationship type with contact type of "All Contacts". This is intended to fix this.

Before

The API create spec defines contact_type_a and contact_type_b as required, and locks this functionality in via a unit test.

After

I removed the lines from the spec and removed/updated the unit tests locking in the incorrect behavior.

Comments

This code hasn't been touched since Civi was migrated from SVN to git - so it might be that once upon a time there was no way to specify "All Contacts" via leaving contact_type_a or contact_type_b as NULL.

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• CRM-21049: Can't create a RelationshipType record via API with "All Contacts" as a value

[civicrm-builder]

Can one of the admins verify this patch?

[MegaphoneJon]

Hmm - I suspect that I need to be whitelisted again since my Github name has changed.

[colemanw]

@civicrm-builder add to whitelist

[colemanw]

I suspect a hack/workaround from your end could be to call the api with the string 'null' as the value for those fields. But I like this better :)

[monishdeb]

@MegaphoneJon can you mention the JIRA issue number in the PR title?

[lcdservices]

I tested and verified this PR. you can now create relationship types via the API with no contact type identified.