From 64a252b34f5147768735719728479a7261475593 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Coleman Watts <coleman@civicrm.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 15:57:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix dev/core#4240 - Saving entityReference field value via
 API

---
 CRM/Utils/Type.php | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CRM/Utils/Type.php b/CRM/Utils/Type.php
index d83fbbe83f..87087711d0 100644
--- a/CRM/Utils/Type.php
+++ b/CRM/Utils/Type.php
@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ class CRM_Utils_Type {
       case 'Date':
       case 'Timestamp':
       case 'ContactReference':
+      case 'EntityReference':
       case 'MysqlOrderByDirection':
         $validatedData = self::validate($data, $type, $abort);
         if (isset($validatedData)) {
@@ -380,6 +381,7 @@ class CRM_Utils_Type {
       'Date',
       'Timestamp',
       'ContactReference',
+      'EntityReference',
       'MysqlColumnNameOrAlias',
       'MysqlOrderByDirection',
       'MysqlOrderBy',
@@ -435,12 +437,13 @@ class CRM_Utils_Type {
         break;
 
       case 'ContactReference':
+      case 'EntityReference':
         // null is valid
         if (strlen(trim($data)) == 0) {
           return trim($data);
         }
 
-        if (CRM_Utils_Rule::validContact($data)) {
+        if (CRM_Utils_Rule::positiveInteger($data)) {
           return (int) $data;
         }
         break;
-- 
2.25.1