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QuickBooks - Create an Employee

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Demonstrates how to send an JSON request to create a QuickBooks employee Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loJsonToken
LOCAL loRest
LOCAL lnBAutoReconnect
LOCAL loSbAuth
LOCAL loJson
LOCAL lcResponseBody
LOCAL loJsonResponse

lnSuccess = 0

* 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"
* }

loJsonToken = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
lnSuccess = loJsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json")

loRest = CreateObject('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.
lnBAutoReconnect = 1
lnSuccess = loRest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,1,lnBAutoReconnect)
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loJsonToken
    RELEASE loRest
    CANCEL
ENDIF

loSbAuth = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
loSbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
loSbAuth.Append(loJsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))
loRest.Authorization = loSbAuth.GetAsString()

* Create the following JSON:

* Use this online tool to generate code from sample JSON: 
* Generate Code to Create JSON

* {
*   "SSN": "444-55-6666",
*   "PrimaryAddr": {
*     "Id": "50",
*     "Line1": "45 N. Elm Street",
*     "City": "Middlefield",
*     "CountrySubDivisionCode": "CA",
*     "PostalCode": "93242"
*   },
*   "GivenName": "John",
*   "FamilyName": "Meuller",
*   "PrimaryPhone": {
*     "FreeFormNumber": "408-525-1234"
*   }
* }
* 
loJson = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
loJson.UpdateString("SSN","444-55-6666")
loJson.UpdateString("PrimaryAddr.Id","50")
loJson.UpdateString("PrimaryAddr.Line1","45 N. Elm Street")
loJson.UpdateString("PrimaryAddr.City","Middlefield")
loJson.UpdateString("PrimaryAddr.CountrySubDivisionCode","CA")
loJson.UpdateString("PrimaryAddr.PostalCode","93242")
loJson.UpdateString("GivenName","John")
loJson.UpdateString("FamilyName","Meuller")
loJson.UpdateString("PrimaryPhone.FreeFormNumber","408-525-1234")

loRest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json")
loRest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
loRest.AllowHeaderFolding = 0

* The company ID is 123146096291789
lcResponseBody = loRest.FullRequestString("POST","/v3/company/123146096291789/employee?minorversion=45",loJson.Emit())
IF (loRest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loJsonToken
    RELEASE loRest
    RELEASE loSbAuth
    RELEASE loJson
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* We should expect a 200 response if successful.
IF (loRest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) THEN
    ? "Request Header: "
    ? loRest.LastRequestHeader
    ? "----"
    ? "Response StatusCode = " + STR(loRest.ResponseStatusCode)
    ? "Response StatusLine: " + loRest.ResponseStatusText
    ? "Response Header:"
    ? loRest.ResponseHeader
    ? lcResponseBody
    RELEASE loJsonToken
    RELEASE loRest
    RELEASE loSbAuth
    RELEASE loJson
    CANCEL
ENDIF

loJsonResponse = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
loJsonResponse.Load(lcResponseBody)
loJsonResponse.EmitCompact = 0
? loJsonResponse.Emit()
? "Success."

* Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
* Generate Parsing Code from JSON

* A sample JSON response:
* {
*   "Employee": {
*     "SSN": "XXX-XX-XXXX",
*     "PrimaryAddr": {
*       "Id": "97",
*       "Line1": "45 N. Elm Street",
*       "City": "Middlefield",
*       "CountrySubDivisionCode": "CA",
*       "PostalCode": "93242"
*     },
*     "BillableTime": false,
*     "domain": "QBO",
*     "sparse": false,
*     "Id": "59",
*     "SyncToken": "0",
*     "MetaData": {
*       "CreateTime": "2016-10-25T14:05:05-07:00",
*       "LastUpdatedTime": "2016-10-25T14:05:05-07:00"
*     },
*     "GivenName": "John",
*     "FamilyName": "Meuller",
*     "DisplayName": "John Meuller",
*     "PrintOnCheckName": "John Meuller",
*     "Active": true,
*     "PrimaryPhone": {
*       "FreeFormNumber": "408-525-1234"
*     }
*   },
*   "time": "2016-10-25T14:05:05.661-07:00"
* }
* 

RELEASE loJsonToken
RELEASE loRest
RELEASE loSbAuth
RELEASE loJson
RELEASE loJsonResponse