(Excel) 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

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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.
Dim jsonToken As Chilkat.JsonObject
Set jsonToken = Chilkat.NewJsonObject

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

Dim rest As Chilkat.Rest
Set rest = Chilkat.NewRest


bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,True,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim sbAuth As Chilkat.StringBuilder
Set sbAuth = Chilkat.NewStringBuilder
Dim success As Boolean
success = sbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
success = sbAuth.Append(jsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))
rest.Authorization = sbAuth.GetAsString()

Dim jsonRequest As Chilkat.JsonObject
Set jsonRequest = Chilkat.NewJsonObject
success = jsonRequest.AppendString("AccountType","Credit Card")
success = jsonRequest.AppendString("Name","Banana Republic")

requestBody = jsonRequest.Emit()

' "123146096291789" is the company ID.
Dim sbPath As Chilkat.StringBuilder
Set sbPath = Chilkat.NewStringBuilder
success = sbPath.Append("/v3/company/123146096291789/account?minorversion=45")

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


responseBody = rest.FullRequestString("POST",sbPath.GetAsString(),requestBody)
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

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

Dim jsonResponse As Chilkat.JsonObject
Set jsonResponse = Chilkat.NewJsonObject
success = jsonResponse.Load(responseBody)
jsonResponse.EmitCompact = False
Debug.Print jsonResponse.Emit()
Debug.Print "Success."

' 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"
' }