C

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. C

#include <C_CkJsonObject.h>
#include <C_CkRest.h>
#include <C_CkStringBuilder.h>
#include <C_CkDateTime.h>
#include <C_CkDtObj.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkJsonObject jsonToken;
    HCkRest rest;
    BOOL bAutoReconnect;
    HCkStringBuilder sbAuth;
    const char *responseBody;
    HCkJsonObject json;
    HCkDateTime dtime;
    BOOL bLocalTime;
    HCkDtObj dt;

    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"
    // }

    jsonToken = CkJsonObject_Create();
    success = CkJsonObject_LoadFile(jsonToken,"qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json");

    rest = CkRest_Create();

    // 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 = TRUE;
    success = CkRest_Connect(rest,"sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,TRUE,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkRest_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkJsonObject_Dispose(jsonToken);
        CkRest_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    sbAuth = CkStringBuilder_Create();
    CkStringBuilder_Append(sbAuth,"Bearer ");
    CkStringBuilder_Append(sbAuth,CkJsonObject_stringOf(jsonToken,"access_token"));
    CkRest_putAuthorization(rest,CkStringBuilder_getAsString(sbAuth));

    CkRest_AddHeader(rest,"Accept","application/json");
    CkRest_putAllowHeaderFolding(rest,FALSE);

    // The company ID is the 123146096291789
    // The account ID is 29
    responseBody = CkRest_fullRequestNoBody(rest,"GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/account/29?minorversion=45");
    if (CkRest_getLastMethodSuccess(rest) == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkRest_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkJsonObject_Dispose(jsonToken);
        CkRest_Dispose(rest);
        CkStringBuilder_Dispose(sbAuth);
        return;
    }

    // We should expect a 200 response if successful.
    if (CkRest_getResponseStatusCode(rest) != 200) {
        printf("Request Header: \n");
        printf("%s\n",CkRest_lastRequestHeader(rest));
        printf("----\n");
        printf("Response StatusCode = %d\n",CkRest_getResponseStatusCode(rest));
        printf("Response StatusLine: %s\n",CkRest_responseStatusText(rest));
        printf("Response Header:\n");
        printf("%s\n",CkRest_responseHeader(rest));
        printf("%s\n",responseBody);
        CkJsonObject_Dispose(jsonToken);
        CkRest_Dispose(rest);
        CkStringBuilder_Dispose(sbAuth);
        return;
    }

    // Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
    // A sample JSON response is shown below.
    json = CkJsonObject_Create();
    CkJsonObject_Load(json,responseBody);

    // These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
    dtime = CkDateTime_Create();
    bLocalTime = TRUE;

    // Show the JSON..
    CkJsonObject_putEmitCompact(json,FALSE);
    printf("%s\n",CkJsonObject_emit(json));

    // Get some information from the JSON..
    printf("Name: %s\n",CkJsonObject_stringOf(json,"Account.Name"));
    printf("Id: %s\n",CkJsonObject_stringOf(json,"Account.Id"));

    // Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
    CkDateTime_SetFromTimestamp(dtime,CkJsonObject_stringOf(json,"Account.MetaData.CreateTime"));
    dt = CkDtObj_Create();
    CkDateTime_ToDtObj(dtime,bLocalTime,dt);

    printf("%d/%d/%d  %d:%d\n",CkDtObj_getMonth(dt),CkDtObj_getDay(dt),CkDtObj_getYear(dt),CkDtObj_getHour(dt),CkDtObj_getMinute(dt));

    printf("Success.\n");

    // 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"
    // 


    CkJsonObject_Dispose(jsonToken);
    CkRest_Dispose(rest);
    CkStringBuilder_Dispose(sbAuth);
    CkJsonObject_Dispose(json);
    CkDateTime_Dispose(dtime);
    CkDtObj_Dispose(dt);

    }