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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