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QuickBooks - Create an Account

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

#include <CkJsonObject.h>
#include <CkRest.h>
#include <CkStringBuilder.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

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

    CkRest rest;

    bool bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,true,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success != true) {
        std::cout << rest.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

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

    CkJsonObject jsonRequest;
    jsonRequest.AppendString("AccountType","Credit Card");
    jsonRequest.AppendString("Name","Banana Republic");
    const char *requestBody = jsonRequest.emit();

    //  "123146096291789" is the company ID.
    CkStringBuilder sbPath;
    sbPath.Append("/v3/company/123146096291789/account?minorversion=45");

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

    const char *responseBody = rest.fullRequestString("POST",sbPath.getAsString(),requestBody);
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        std::cout << rest.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    //  We should expect a 200 response if successful.
    if (rest.get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
        std::cout << "Request Header: " << "\r\n";
        std::cout << rest.lastRequestHeader() << "\r\n";
        std::cout << "----" << "\r\n";
        std::cout << "Response StatusCode = " << rest.get_ResponseStatusCode() << "\r\n";
        std::cout << "Response StatusLine: " << rest.responseStatusText() << "\r\n";
        std::cout << "Response Header:" << "\r\n";
        std::cout << rest.responseHeader() << "\r\n";
        std::cout << responseBody << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    CkJsonObject jsonResponse;
    jsonResponse.Load(responseBody);
    jsonResponse.put_EmitCompact(false);
    std::cout << jsonResponse.emit() << "\r\n";
    std::cout << "Success." << "\r\n";

    //  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"
    //  }
    }