API: Address required for addclient?

[adamvalcato]

In WHMCS I can create clients with just their name and email address, but when using the API it seems the address is also required. I get:

 

You did not enter your address (line 1)

 

I guess I can just set the required fields to dummy values, but is this a bug in the API or is this the intended behaviour?

[laszlof]

What does your code look like? Are you passing at least blank values for the address?

[adamvalcato]

I've tried setting the address to the empty string and a single space (and also after testing it seems city, state, postcode and phonenumber are also required). Neither of those worked, so I'm now just setting them to '-', which does work but is kind of ugly.

 

Also, the API docs imply that the welcome email will be sent automatically unless noemail=true, but that doesn't seem to be the case. (Setting noemail=false doesn't make a difference.)

 

Here's an excerpt from my code if you're interested (this is in Python):

 

class WHMCS:

   def execute(self, action, args):
       args.update({'username': self.user, 'password': self.password, 'action': action})
       params = urllib.urlencode(args)

       result = urllib.urlopen(self.url, params).read()

       out = dict()

       for field in result.split(';'):
           if len(field) > 0:
               pair = field.split('=', 1)
               if len(pair) == 2:
                   out.update({pair[0]:pair[1]})

       if out['result'] == 'error':
           raise WHMCSAPIException(out['message'])

       return out


   def addclient(self, firstname, lastname, email, **kwargs):
       kwargs.update({'firstname': firstname, 'lastname': lastname, 'email': email})

       defaults = {'password2': random_password()}
       blank_defaults = ['address1', 'city', 'state', 'postcode', 'phonenumber']

       for (k,v) in zip(defaults.keys(), defaults.values()):
           if not k in kwargs:
               kwargs.update({k:v})

       for k in blank_defaults:
           if not k in kwargs:
               kwargs.update({k:'-'})

       return self.execute('addclient', kwargs)

[MACscr]

Where you ever able to get around those fields being required? Seems kind of crazy for whmcs to force this on us.

[adamvalcato]

In the end I had to just have my code set all the address fields to "-" so that they wouldn't be empty. It's a little ugly, but it's the best way I could find (I tried just setting it to a space, but WHMCS seems to strip away whitespace so that didn't work).