Lua Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

QuickBooks - Read an Account

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

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- 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"
-- }

local jsonToken = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
local success = jsonToken:load_file("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json")

local rest = chilkat.Rest.new()

-- 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.
local bAutoReconnect = true
success = rest:connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com", 443, true, bAutoReconnect)
if not success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

local sbAuth = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
sbAuth:append("Bearer ")
sbAuth:append(jsonToken:string_of("access_token"))
rest.authorization = sbAuth:get_as_string()

rest:add_header("Accept", "application/json")
rest.allow_header_folding = false

-- The company ID is the 123146096291789
-- The account ID is 29
local responseBody = rest:full_request_no_body("GET", "/v3/company/123146096291789/account/29?minorversion=45")
if not rest.last_method_success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- We should expect a 200 response if successful.
if rest.response_status_code ~= 200 then
    print("Request Header: ")
    print(rest.last_request_header)
    print("----")
    print("Response StatusCode = " .. rest.response_status_code)
    print("Response StatusLine: " .. rest.response_status_text)
    print("Response Header:")
    print(rest.response_header)
    print(responseBody)
    return
end

-- Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
-- A sample JSON response is shown below.
local json = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
json:load(responseBody)

-- These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
local dtime = chilkat.DateTime.new()
local bLocalTime = true

-- Show the JSON..
json.emit_compact = false
print(json:emit())

-- Get some information from the JSON..
print("Name: " .. json:string_of("Account.Name"))
print("Id: " .. json:string_of("Account.Id"))

-- Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
dtime:set_from_timestamp(json:string_of("Account.MetaData.CreateTime"))
local dt = chilkat.DtObj.new()
dtime:to_dt_obj(bLocalTime, dt)

print(dt.month .. "/" .. dt.day .. "/" .. dt.year .. "  " .. dt.hour .. ":" .. dt.minute)

print("Success.")

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

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

-- {
--   "Account": {
--         "Name": "Accounts Payable (A/P)",
--         "SubAccount": false,
--         "FullyQualifiedName": "Accounts Payable (A/P)",
--         "Active": true,
--         "Classification": "Liability",
--         "AccountType": "Accounts Payable",
--         "AccountSubType": "AccountsPayable",
--         "CurrentBalance": -1602.67,
--         "CurrentBalanceWithSubAccounts": -1602.67,
--         "CurrencyRef": {
--           "value": "USD",
--           "name": "United States Dollar"
--         },
--         "domain": "QBO",
--         "sparse": false,
--         "Id": "33",
--         "SyncToken": "0",
--         "MetaData": {
--           "CreateTime": "2016-09-10T10:12:02-07:00",
--           "LastUpdatedTime": "2016-09-17T13:10:36-07:00"
--         }
--       },
--   "time": "2016-10-24T15:35:25.067-07:00"
-- }