B4X Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

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. B4X

Dim success As Boolean = 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 ChilkatJsonObject
jsonToken.Initialize
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json")

Dim rest As ChilkatRest
rest.Initialize("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 = True
success = rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com", 443, True, bAutoReconnect)
If success = False Then
    Log(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


Dim sbAuth As ChilkatStringBuilder
sbAuth.Initialize
sbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
sbAuth.Append(jsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))
rest.Authorization = sbAuth.GetAsString

rest.AddHeader("Accept", "application/json")
rest.AllowHeaderFolding = False

'  The company ID is the 123146096291789
'  The account ID is 29
Dim responseBody As String = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET", "/v3/company/123146096291789/account/29?minorversion=45")
If rest.LastMethodSuccess = False Then
    Log(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


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


'  Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
'  A sample JSON response is shown below.
Dim json As ChilkatJsonObject
json.Initialize
json.Load(responseBody)

'  These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
Dim dtime As ChilkatDateTime
dtime.Initialize
Dim bLocalTime As Boolean = True

'  Show the JSON..
json.EmitCompact = False
Log(json.Emit)

'  Get some information from the JSON..
Log("Name: " & json.StringOf("Account.Name"))
Log("Id: " & json.StringOf("Account.Id"))

'  Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.StringOf("Account.MetaData.CreateTime"))
Dim dt As ChilkatDtObj
dt.Initialize
dtime.ToDtObj(bLocalTime, dt)

Log(dt.Month & "/" & dt.Day & "/" & dt.Year & "  " & dt.Hour & ":" & dt.Minute)

Log("Success.")

'  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"
'  }