Updating individual contacts in the Address Book
The recommended method for updating a contact is the synchronize method described above. You can
obtain the ID of the Contact to be updated (cid) from a
previous call to the searchContacts
method, or from a previous read call to the synchronize method.
If you are only interested in the success or failure of the update operation and do not wish to receive changes to the Address Book, specify the following URL parameters in the synchronize request:
The nodiffs=1 parameter omits the listing of events
and categories from the output, so the output will only contain the
update result responses (success and/or error
entities).
Example using XML
Find the contact:
Returns:
The following Request with a POST updates the surname:
The Request returns the following Response:
Example using JSON
The following Request finds a contact:
The Request returns the following Response:
The following Request and POST body updates a surname:
The Request returns the following Response: