Android™

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. Android™

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    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"
    //  }

    CkJsonObject jsonToken = new CkJsonObject();
    success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json");

    CkRest rest = new CkRest();

    //  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.
    boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,true,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    CkStringBuilder sbAuth = new CkStringBuilder();
    sbAuth.Append("Bearer ");
    sbAuth.Append(jsonToken.stringOf("access_token"));
    rest.put_Authorization(sbAuth.getAsString());

    rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json");
    rest.put_AllowHeaderFolding(false);

    //  The company ID is 123146096291789
    //  The employee ID is 58
    String responseBody = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/employee/58?minorversion=45");
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  We should expect a 200 response if successful.
    if (rest.get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
        Log.i(TAG, "Request Header: ");
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastRequestHeader());
        Log.i(TAG, "----");
        Log.i(TAG, "Response StatusCode = " + String.valueOf(rest.get_ResponseStatusCode()));
        Log.i(TAG, "Response StatusLine: " + rest.responseStatusText());
        Log.i(TAG, "Response Header:");
        Log.i(TAG, rest.responseHeader());
        Log.i(TAG, responseBody);
        return;
        }

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

    //  These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
    CkDateTime dtime = new CkDateTime();

    //  Show the JSON.   
    json.put_EmitCompact(false);
    Log.i(TAG, json.emit());

    //  Get some information from the JSON..
    Log.i(TAG, "Name: " + json.stringOf("Employee.DisplayName"));
    Log.i(TAG, "Id: " + json.stringOf("Employee.Id"));
    Log.i(TAG, "City: " + json.stringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.City"));
    Log.i(TAG, "PostalCode: " + json.stringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.PostalCode"));

    //  Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
    dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.stringOf("Employee.MetaData.CreateTime"));
    boolean bLocalTime = true;
    CkDtObj dt = new CkDtObj();
    dtime.ToDtObj(bLocalTime,dt);

    Log.i(TAG, String.valueOf(dt.get_Month()) + "/" + String.valueOf(dt.get_Day()) + "/" + String.valueOf(dt.get_Year()) + "  " + String.valueOf(dt.get_Hour()) + ":"
         + String.valueOf(dt.get_Minute()));

    Log.i(TAG, "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"
    //  }

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}