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KhurramAR
Contributing User
4 years ago

What's the best way to get a UID of newly created resource via POST

I am wondering what's the best way to get the UID of a newly created Contact or any other resource via POST request. The response does not contain anything. Not even an identifier of the newly create...
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    Hannah_B
    4 years ago

    Hi There, 

     

    Thanks for reaching out, If you pass ?returnBody=true in your query the API should return in the body. 

     

    The other option like you mentioned - is if the header of the response is for a 200 or 201  you can use the location URL to pull the full endpoint. 

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Hannah_B
MYOB Moderator
4 years ago

Hi There, 

 

Thanks for reaching out, If you pass ?returnBody=true in your query the API should return in the body. 

 

The other option like you mentioned - is if the header of the response is for a 200 or 201  you can use the location URL to pull the full endpoint. 

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