C#

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. C#

bool 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"
//  }

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

Chilkat.Rest rest = new Chilkat.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.
bool bAutoReconnect = true;
success = rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,true,bAutoReconnect);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Chilkat.StringBuilder sbAuth = new Chilkat.StringBuilder();
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
string responseBody = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/account/29?minorversion=45");
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  We should expect a 200 response if successful.
if (rest.ResponseStatusCode != 200) {
    Debug.WriteLine("Request Header: ");
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastRequestHeader);
    Debug.WriteLine("----");
    Debug.WriteLine("Response StatusCode = " + Convert.ToString(rest.ResponseStatusCode));
    Debug.WriteLine("Response StatusLine: " + rest.ResponseStatusText);
    Debug.WriteLine("Response Header:");
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.ResponseHeader);
    Debug.WriteLine(responseBody);
    return;
}

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

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

//  Show the JSON..
json.EmitCompact = false;
Debug.WriteLine(json.Emit());

//  Get some information from the JSON..
Debug.WriteLine("Name: " + json.StringOf("Account.Name"));
Debug.WriteLine("Id: " + json.StringOf("Account.Id"));

//  Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.StringOf("Account.MetaData.CreateTime"));
Chilkat.DtObj dt = new Chilkat.DtObj();
dtime.ToDtObj(bLocalTime,dt);

Debug.WriteLine(Convert.ToString(dt.Month) + "/" + Convert.ToString(dt.Day) + "/" + Convert.ToString(dt.Year) + "  " + Convert.ToString(dt.Hour) + ":" + Convert.ToString(dt.Minute));

Debug.WriteLine("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"
//  }