topic Re: 400 Response on contact update endpoint. in APIs & Integrations

400 Response on contact update endpoint.

kyleffotf — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 19:34:11 GMT

I'm using the hubspot-api-php package

Trying to call the update endpoint

PATCH /crm/v3/objects/contacts/{contactId}

This is what the hubspot developer docs uses as an example:

<?php use HubSpot\Factory; use HubSpot\Client\Crm\Contacts\ApiException; $client = Factory::createWithApiKey("YOUR_HUBSPOT_API_KEY"); $properties = [ "company" => "Biglytics", "email" => "bcooper@biglytics.net", "firstname" => "Bryan", "lastname" => "Cooper", "phone" => "(877) 929-0687", "website" => "biglytics.net" ]; $SimplePublicObjectInput = new SimplePublicObjectInput(['properties' => $properties]); try { $apiResponse = $client->crm()->contacts()->basicApi()->update("433380577", $SimplePublicObjectInput); var_dump($apiResponse); } catch (ApiException $e) { echo "Exception when calling basic_api->update: ", $e->getMessage(); }

This is my implementation:

Note that $properties looks like this when inspected:

Array ( [address] => 123 Main St [address_2] => P.O. 12 [city] => Vancouver [email] => email@example.com [firstname] => Kyle [lastname] => [mobilephone] => (877) 929-0687 [province] => [zip] => )

This is the response:

Exception when calling basic_api->update: [400] Client error: `PATCH https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v3/objects/contacts/[the contact id]` resulted in a `400 Bad Request` response: {"status":"error","message":"No properties found to update, please provide at least one.","correlationId":"be4a7ab7-2069 (truncated...)

The endpoint with the same properties and contact id works when using Postman, and also when using the "test call" feature in the API documentation.

Am I doing something wrong?

Re: 400 Response on contact update endpoint.

Jaycee_Lewis — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 22:33:26 GMT

Hi, @kyleffotf 👋 Thanks for reaching out. Let's see if we can get the conversation started — @himanshurauthan do you have any PHP magic you can share?

Thank you! — Jaycee

Re: 400 Response on contact update endpoint.

SMarquez — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 23:48:35 GMT

I have the same error, what is the solution?

Re: 400 Response on contact update endpoint.

kyleffotf — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:47:07 GMT

Hi SMarquez,

I solved this by forgoing the HubSpot package and using PHP curl functions instead. This is my implementation for updating contacts:

function update_contact( $contact_id, $properties, $subscribed ) { $params = json_encode( [ 'properties' => $properties ] ); $curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt_array($curl, array( CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v3/objects/contacts/" . $contact_id, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PATCH", CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $params, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array( "Authorization: Bearer " . get_option('hs_api'), "accept: application/json", "content-type: application/json" ), )); $response = curl_exec($curl); $err = curl_error($curl); curl_close($curl); }

I used curl functions for all updates, subscribes, and unsubscribe interations, as the package just wasn't working. The package does work when using the search api, however.