Classic ASP

QuickBooks - Create an Account

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Demonstrates how to send an JSON request to create a QuickBooks account. Classic ASP

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success = 0

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

'  First get our previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
set jsonToken = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json")

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

bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,1,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> 1) 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()

set jsonRequest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonRequest.AppendString("AccountType","Credit Card")
success = jsonRequest.AppendString("Name","Banana Republic")
requestBody = jsonRequest.Emit()

'  "123146096291789" is the company ID.
set sbPath = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbPath.Append("/v3/company/123146096291789/account?minorversion=45")

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

responseBody = rest.FullRequestString("POST",sbPath.GetAsString(),requestBody)
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) 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

set jsonResponse = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonResponse.Load(responseBody)
jsonResponse.EmitCompact = 0
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( jsonResponse.Emit()) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Success.") & "</pre>"

'  A sample JSON response:

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

'  {
'    "Account": {
'      "Name": "Banana Republic",
'      "SubAccount": false,
'      "FullyQualifiedName": "Banana Republic",
'      "Active": true,
'      "Classification": "Liability",
'      "AccountType": "Credit Card",
'      "AccountSubType": "CreditCard",
'      "CurrentBalance": 0,
'      "CurrentBalanceWithSubAccounts": 0,
'      "CurrencyRef": {
'        "value": "USD",
'        "name": "United States Dollar"
'      },
'      "domain": "QBO",
'      "sparse": false,
'      "Id": "97",
'      "SyncToken": "0",
'      "MetaData": {
'        "CreateTime": "2016-10-25T05:07:12-07:00",
'        "LastUpdatedTime": "2016-10-25T05:07:12-07:00"
'      }
'    },
'    "time": "2016-10-25T05:07:11.714-07:00"
'  }

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