(Classic ASP) QuickBooks - Read an Employee

Demonstrates how to fetch the information for a specific Quickbooks employee. The employee information is fetched by Id. The employee Ids can be obtained by querying the employees and parsing the JSON that is returned.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

For more information, see https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/all-entities/employee#read-an-employee

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success = 0

' This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

' Get our previously obtained OAuth2 access token, which should contain JSON like this:
' {
'   "expires_in": 3600,
'   "x_refresh_token_expires_in": 8726400,
'   "refresh_token": "L011546037639r ... 3vR2DrbOmg0Sdagw",
'   "access_token": "eyJlbmMiOiJBMTI4Q0 ... oETJEMbeggg",
'   "token_type": "bearer"
' }

set jsonToken = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json")

set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

' Connect using TLS.
' A single REST object, once connected, can be used for many Quickbooks REST API calls.
' The auto-reconnect indicates that if the already-established HTTPS connection is closed,
' then it will be automatically re-established as needed.
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,1,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

set sbAuth = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
success = sbAuth.Append(jsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))
rest.Authorization = sbAuth.GetAsString()

success = rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
rest.AllowHeaderFolding = 0

' The company ID is 123146096291789
' The employee ID is 58
responseBody = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/employee/58?minorversion=45")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' We should expect a 200 response if successful.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Request Header: ") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastRequestHeader) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "----") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response StatusCode = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response StatusLine: " & rest.ResponseStatusText) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response Header:") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.ResponseHeader) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( responseBody) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
' A sample JSON response is shown below.
set json = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = json.Load(responseBody)

' These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
set dtime = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.CkDateTime")

' Show the JSON.   
json.EmitCompact = 0
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( json.Emit()) & "</pre>"

' Get some information from the JSON..
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Name: " & json.StringOf("Employee.DisplayName")) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Id: " & json.StringOf("Employee.Id")) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "City: " & json.StringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.City")) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "PostalCode: " & json.StringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.PostalCode")) & "</pre>"

' Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
success = dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.StringOf("Employee.MetaData.CreateTime"))
bLocalTime = 1
set dt = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.DtObj")
dtime.ToDtObj bLocalTime,dt

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( dt.Month & "/" & dt.Day & "/" & dt.Year & "  " & dt.Hour _
     & ":" & dt.Minute) & "</pre>"

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Success.") & "</pre>"

' Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
' Generate Parsing Code from JSON

' ------------------------------------------------------
' The JSON response looks like this:

' {
'   "Employee": {
'     "SSN": "XXX-XX-XXXX",
'     "PrimaryAddr": {
'       "Id": "116",
'       "Line1": "45 N. Elm Street",
'       "City": "Middlefield",
'       "CountrySubDivisionCode": "CA",
'       "PostalCode": "93242"
'     },
'     "BillableTime": false,
'     "domain": "QBO",
'     "sparse": false,
'     "Id": "98",
'     "SyncToken": "0",
'     "MetaData": {
'       "CreateTime": "2015-07-24T09:34:35-07:00",
'       "LastUpdatedTime": "2015-07-24T09:34:35-07:00"
'     },
'     "GivenName": "Bill",
'     "FamilyName": "Miller",
'     "DisplayName": "Bill Miller",
'     "PrintOnCheckName": "Bill Miller",
'     "Active": true,
'     "PrimaryPhone": {
'       "FreeFormNumber": "234-525-1234"
'     }
'   },
'   "time": "2015-07-24T09:35:54.805-07:00"
' 

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