Sage One - Accounts - v3 CA

Documentation of the Sage Business Cloud Accounting API.

Returns a Contact Person

Endpoint Availability

  • Accounting Plus: 🇨🇦, 🇩🇪, 🇪🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇬🇧, 🇮🇪, 🇺🇸
  • Accounting Standard: 🇬🇧, 🇮🇪
  • Accounting Start: 🇨🇦, 🇩🇪, 🇪🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇬🇧, 🇮🇪, 🇺🇸

Access Control Restrictions

Requires the authenticated user to have any mentioned role in one of the listed areas:

  • Area: Contacts: Read Only, Restricted Access, Full Access
  • Area: Sales: Read Only, Restricted Access, Full Access
  • Area: Purchases: Read Only, Restricted Access, Full Access
  • Area: Bank: Read Only, Restricted Access, Full Access

Try it

Request URL

Request parameters

string

The Contact Person Key.

(optional)
string

Specify the attributes that you want to expose for nested entities of the Address Contact (expose all nested attributes with 'all'). These are in addition to the base attributes (name, path)

(optional)
boolean

Display the legacy_id for the Address Contact.

(optional)
string

Specify the attributes that you want to expose for the Address Contact (expose all attributes with 'all'). These are in addition to the base attributes (name, path)

Request headers

string
Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile.

Request body

Response 200

Returns a Contact Person

{
  "legacy_id": 0,
  "id": "string",
  "displayed_as": "string",
  "$path": "string",
  "created_at": "string",
  "updated_at": "string",
  "deleted_at": "string",
  "contact_person_types": [
    {
      "legacy_id": 0,
      "id": "string",
      "displayed_as": "string",
      "$path": "string"
    }
  ],
  "name": "string",
  "job_title": "string",
  "telephone": "string",
  "mobile": "string",
  "email": "string",
  "fax": "string",
  "is_main_contact": true,
  "address": {
    "legacy_id": 0,
    "id": "string",
    "displayed_as": "string",
    "$path": "string"
  },
  "is_preferred_contact": true
}
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "legacy_id": {
      "type": "integer",
      "format": "int32",
      "description": "The legacy ID for the item"
    },
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The unique identifier for the item"
    },
    "displayed_as": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The name of the resource"
    },
    "$path": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The API path for the resource"
    },
    "created_at": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "The datetime when the item was created"
    },
    "updated_at": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "The datetime when the item was last updated"
    },
    "deleted_at": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "The datetime when the item was deleted"
    },
    "contact_person_types": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "legacy_id": {
            "type": "integer",
            "format": "int32",
            "description": "The legacy ID for the item"
          },
          "id": {
            "type": "string",
            "maxLength": 15,
            "description": "The unique identifier for the item"
          },
          "displayed_as": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The name of the resource"
          },
          "$path": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The API path for the resource"
          }
        },
        "description": "### Endpoint Availability\n\n* Accounting Plus: 🇨🇦, 🇩🇪, 🇪🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇬🇧, 🇮🇪, 🇺🇸\n* Accounting Standard: 🇬🇧, 🇮🇪\n* Accounting Start: 🇨🇦, 🇩🇪, 🇪🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇬🇧, 🇮🇪, 🇺🇸",
        "x-sage-menusection": "Contacts, Addresses & Countries"
      },
      "description": "The contact person types for the contact person. Get possible types by retrieving\n<a href=\"https://developer.sage.com/accounting/reference/contacts/#operation/getContactPersonTypes\">\n  all available contact person types\n</a>.\n"
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 50,
      "description": "The name of the contact person"
    },
    "job_title": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 50,
      "description": "The job title of the contact person"
    },
    "telephone": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 50,
      "description": "The telephone number of the contact person"
    },
    "mobile": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 50,
      "description": "The mobile number of the contact person"
    },
    "email": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 100,
      "description": "The email address of the contact person"
    },
    "fax": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 50,
      "description": "The fax number of the contact person"
    },
    "is_main_contact": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Indicates whether this is the main contact person. Per contact, only one main contact can be selected."
    },
    "address": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "legacy_id": {
          "type": "integer",
          "format": "int32",
          "description": "The legacy ID for the item"
        },
        "id": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The unique identifier for the item"
        },
        "displayed_as": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The name of the resource"
        },
        "$path": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The API path for the resource"
        }
      },
      "description": "The address of the contact person",
      "x-sage-menusection": "Settings"
    },
    "is_preferred_contact": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Indicates whether this contact person is a preferred contact"
    }
  },
  "description": "### Endpoint Availability\n\n* Accounting Plus: 🇨🇦, 🇩🇪, 🇪🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇬🇧, 🇮🇪, 🇺🇸\n* Accounting Standard: 🇬🇧, 🇮🇪\n* Accounting Start: 🇨🇦, 🇩🇪, 🇪🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇬🇧, 🇮🇪, 🇺🇸\n\n### Access Control Restrictions\n\nRequires the authenticated user to have any mentioned role in one of the listed areas:\n* Area: `Contacts`: Restricted Access, Full Access",
  "x-sage-menusection": "Contacts, Addresses & Countries"
}

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X GET "https://api.columbus.sage.com/ca/sageone/accounts/v3/contact_persons/{key}?nested_attributes={string}&show_legacy_id={boolean}&attributes={string}"
-H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"

--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("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");

            // Request parameters
            queryString["nested_attributes"] = "{string}";
            queryString["show_legacy_id"] = "{boolean}";
            queryString["attributes"] = "{string}";
            var uri = "https://api.columbus.sage.com/ca/sageone/accounts/v3/contact_persons/{key}?" + queryString;

            var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
        }
    }
}	
// // 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.columbus.sage.com/ca/sageone/accounts/v3/contact_persons/{key}");

            builder.setParameter("nested_attributes", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("show_legacy_id", "{boolean}");
            builder.setParameter("attributes", "{string}");

            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
            request.setHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");


            // 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
            "nested_attributes": "{string}",
            "show_legacy_id": "{boolean}",
            "attributes": "{string}",
        };
      
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://api.columbus.sage.com/ca/sageone/accounts/v3/contact_persons/{key}?" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
            },
            type: "GET",
            // 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.columbus.sage.com/ca/sageone/accounts/v3/contact_persons/{key}";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                         @"nested_attributes={string}",
                         @"show_legacy_id={boolean}",
                         @"attributes={string}",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"];
    // 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 Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.columbus.sage.com/ca/sageone/accounts/v3/contact_persons/{key}');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
    'nested_attributes' => '{string}',
    'show_legacy_id' => '{boolean}',
    'attributes' => '{string}',
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);

// 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
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'nested_attributes': '{string}',
    'show_legacy_id': '{boolean}',
    'attributes': '{string}',
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.columbus.sage.com')
    conn.request("GET", "/ca/sageone/accounts/v3/contact_persons/{key}?%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
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'nested_attributes': '{string}',
    'show_legacy_id': '{boolean}',
    'attributes': '{string}',
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.columbus.sage.com')
    conn.request("GET", "/ca/sageone/accounts/v3/contact_persons/{key}?%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.columbus.sage.com/ca/sageone/accounts/v3/contact_persons/{key}')

query = URI.encode_www_form({
    # Request parameters
    'nested_attributes' => '{string}',
    'show_legacy_id' => '{boolean}',
    'attributes' => '{string}'
})

if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
    uri.query += '&' + query
else
    uri.query = query
end

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# 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