Hello,
@clarisam4 wrote:
All I want to do for right now is check to see if an email is already in Contacts for this account. To do that, I setup a JSON request with a single parameter: "email", is that correct?
You would do an HTTP GET request with the parameter of email. http://developer.constantcontact.com/docs/contacts-api/contacts-collection.html?method=GET
Also, when I say POST I'm talking about the POST mechanism from our server to the API server. Like POST vs. GET requests. Not talking about commands that Constant Contact understands.
Correct. This is also what we are referring to when our documentation uses GET, POST, PUT, etc. You would make a GET request, not a POST, to the endpoint with no body payload. If the contact exists, the response will be a JSON object. See the example response at the earlier link to see what this will look like. If the contact does not exist you will get back a Not Found response.
it wants JSON data only. I am having a really hard time finding any examples of what a JSON request looks like. Where is there a simple JSON request example?
There is an example body in our documentation for each endpoint. If you are creating a brand new contact, you can see that here: http://developer.constantcontact.com/docs/contacts-api/contacts-collection.html?method=POST#example-json-request-body
Regards, David B. Tier II API Support Engineer
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