Xojo Plugin

QuickBooks - Read an Employee

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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. Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

// 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"
// }

Dim jsonToken As New Chilkat.JsonObject
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json")

Dim rest As New 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.
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean
bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,True,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Dim sbAuth As New 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 = False

// The company ID is 123146096291789
// The employee ID is 58
Dim responseBody As String
responseBody = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/employee/58?minorversion=45")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// We should expect a 200 response if successful.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    System.DebugLog("Request Header: ")
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastRequestHeader)
    System.DebugLog("----")
    System.DebugLog("Response StatusCode = " + Str(rest.ResponseStatusCode))
    System.DebugLog("Response StatusLine: " + rest.ResponseStatusText)
    System.DebugLog("Response Header:")
    System.DebugLog(rest.ResponseHeader)
    System.DebugLog(responseBody)
    Return
End If

// Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
// A sample JSON response is shown below.
Dim json As New Chilkat.JsonObject
success = json.Load(responseBody)

// These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
Dim dtime As New Chilkat.CkDateTime

// Show the JSON.   
json.EmitCompact = False
System.DebugLog(json.Emit())

// Get some information from the JSON..
System.DebugLog("Name: " + json.StringOf("Employee.DisplayName"))
System.DebugLog("Id: " + json.StringOf("Employee.Id"))
System.DebugLog("City: " + json.StringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.City"))
System.DebugLog("PostalCode: " + json.StringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.PostalCode"))

// Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
success = dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.StringOf("Employee.MetaData.CreateTime"))
Dim bLocalTime As Boolean
bLocalTime = True
Dim dt As New Chilkat.DtObj
dtime.ToDtObj bLocalTime,dt

System.DebugLog(Str(dt.Month) + "/" + Str(dt.Day) + "/" + Str(dt.Year) + "  " + Str(dt.Hour) + ":" + Str(dt.Minute))

System.DebugLog("Success.")

// 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"
//