Perl Dynamics CRM: Create a Phone Call

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Creates a phone call record regarding the Fourth Coffee account (b6a19cdd-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200), regarding the "Faulty product catalog" incident (c49e62a8-90df-e311-9565-a45d36fc5fe8), from the system user Allie Bellew (832698d1-b86a-47b5-a9a3-0cc710eb22e4), to the contact Gabriele Cannata (57a0e5b9-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200). A successful response is indicated by a 204 response status code with no response body.

Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/web-api/phonecall?view=dynamics-ce-odata-9

CURL Command

curl -X POST https://my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/phonecalls \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
  -H "OData-MaxVersion: 4.0"  \
  -H "OData-Version: 4.0" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer DYNAMICS_CRM_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "subject": "Sample Phone Call 123",
    "phonenumber": "3125551920",
    "description": "Sample phone call created using the Chilkat Rest API",
    "scheduledend": "2018-04-29T11:56:21Z",
    "regardingobjectid_account@odata.bind": "/accounts(b6a19cdd-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200)",
    "actualdurationminutes": 25,
    "directioncode": true,
    "phonecall_activity_parties": [
        {   "partyid_systemuser@odata.bind": "/systemusers(832698d1-b86a-47b5-a9a3-0cc710eb22e4)",
            "participationtypemask": 1 },
        {   "partyid_contact@odata.bind": "/contacts(57a0e5b9-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200)",
            "participationtypemask": 2 },
        {   "partyid_incident@odata.bind": "/incidents(c49e62a8-90df-e311-9565-a45d36fc5fe8)",
            "participationtypemask": 8 }
    ]
}'

Perl Example

use chilkat();

$rest = chilkat::CkRest->new();

#  URL: https://my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/phonecalls
$bTls = 1;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect("my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com",$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success != 1) {
    print "ConnectFailReason: " . $rest->get_ConnectFailReason() . "\r\n";
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$json->UpdateString("subject","Sample Phone Call 123");
$json->UpdateString("phonenumber","3125551920");
$json->UpdateString("description","Sample phone call created using the Chilkat Rest API");
$json->UpdateString("scheduledend","2018-04-29T11:56:21Z");
$json->UpdateString('\'regardingobjectid_account@odata.bind\'',"/accounts(b6a19cdd-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200)");
$json->UpdateNumber("actualdurationminutes","25");
$json->UpdateBool("directioncode",1);
$json->UpdateString('phonecall_activity_parties[0].\'partyid_systemuser@odata.bind\'',"/systemusers(832698d1-b86a-47b5-a9a3-0cc710eb22e4)");
$json->UpdateNumber("phonecall_activity_parties[0].participationtypemask","1");
$json->UpdateString('phonecall_activity_parties[1].\'partyid_contact@odata.bind\'',"/contacts(57a0e5b9-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200)");
$json->UpdateNumber("phonecall_activity_parties[1].participationtypemask","2");
$json->UpdateString('phonecall_activity_parties[2].\'partyid_incident@odata.bind\'',"/incidents(c49e62a8-90df-e311-9565-a45d36fc5fe8)");
$json->UpdateNumber("phonecall_activity_parties[2].participationtypemask","8");

$rest->AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json; charset=utf-8");
$rest->AddHeader("OData-Version","4.0");
$rest->AddHeader("Accept","application/json");
$rest->AddHeader("OData-MaxVersion","4.0");
$rest->AddHeader("Authorization","Bearer DYNAMICS_CRM_ACCESS_TOKEN");

$sbRequestBody = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$json->EmitSb($sbRequestBody);
$sbResponseBody = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$success = $rest->FullRequestSb("POST","/api/data/v9.0/phonecalls",$sbRequestBody,$sbResponseBody);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$respStatusCode = $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode();
if ($respStatusCode >= 400) {
    print "Response Status Code = " . $respStatusCode . "\r\n";
    print "Response Header:" . "\r\n";
    print $rest->responseHeader() . "\r\n";
    print "Response Body:" . "\r\n";
    print $sbResponseBody->getAsString() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}