(Classic ASP) QuickBooks - Create an Account

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

For more information, see https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/ecommerce/account#create-an-account

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads

ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

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' 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.
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject")
set jsonToken = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json")

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Rest")
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

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder")
set sbAuth = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
success = sbAuth.Append(jsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))
rest.Authorization = sbAuth.GetAsString()

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject")
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.
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder")
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

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject")
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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