mjallday
commented
10 years ago In this case the field is not null however. The Balanced API differentiates between null and "". If you omit the email address from the request it will not be updated.
Passing null will explicitly set the value of the email field to null which is different from not passing it at all
curl https://api.balancedpayments.com/customers/CU3AYNOTGGyp9vWdy578Wcc0 -H "Accept: application/vnd.api+json;revision=1.1" -u ak-test-h7F8F3u41y6LzCK4nZeVd5BafaWOUuZL: -X PUT -H "Content-type: application/json" -d '{"email": null}'
{
"customers": [
{
"name": "Henry Ford",
"links": {
"source": null,
"destination": null
},
"updated_at": "2014-02-18T01:54:24.185443Z",
"created_at": "2014-02-14T03:38:26.002760Z",
"dob_month": 7,
"id": "CU3AYNOTGGyp9vWdy578Wcc0",
"phone": null,
"href": "/customers/CU3AYNOTGGyp9vWdy578Wcc0",
"merchant_status": "underwritten",
"meta": {
"shipping-preference": "ground"
},
"dob_year": 1963,
"address": {
"city": null,
"line2": null,
"line1": null,
"state": null,
"postal_code": "48120",
"country_code": null
},
"business_name": null,
"ssn_last4": null,
"email": null,
"ein": null
}
],
"links": {
"customers.source": "/resources/{customers.source}",
"customers.card_holds": "/customers/{customers.id}/card_holds",
"customers.bank_accounts": "/customers/{customers.id}/bank_accounts",
"customers.debits": "/customers/{customers.id}/debits",
"customers.destination": "/resources/{customers.destination}",
"customers.cards": "/customers/{customers.id}/cards",
"customers.transactions": "/customers/{customers.id}/transactions",
"customers.refunds": "/customers/{customers.id}/refunds",
"customers.reversals": "/customers/{customers.id}/reversals",
"customers.orders": "/customers/{customers.id}/orders",
"customers.credits": "/customers/{customers.id}/credits"
}
}
Currently, you get a Balanced Error "Invalid field [email]. "" must be a valid email address as specified by RFC-2822....
Since email isn't a required field, it shouldn't validate unless it is not null and has a non-zero length.