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QuickBooks - Query an Account

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Demonstrates how to query the QuickBooks chart of accounts.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loJsonToken
LOCAL loRest
LOCAL lnBAutoReconnect
LOCAL loSbAuth
LOCAL lcResponseBody
LOCAL loJson
LOCAL loDtime
LOCAL lnBLocalTime
LOCAL loDt
LOCAL lnNumAccounts
LOCAL i

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 = 0) 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()

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

* Add a SELECT statement 
loRest.AddQueryParam("query","select * from Account where Metadata.CreateTime > '2014-12-31'")
loRest.AddQueryParam("minorversion","45")

* The company ID is 123146096291789
lcResponseBody = loRest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/query")
IF (loRest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loJsonToken
    RELEASE loRest
    RELEASE loSbAuth
    CANCEL
ENDIF

loRest.ClearAllQueryParams()

* 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
    CANCEL
ENDIF

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

* Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
* A sample JSON response is shown below.
loJson = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
loJson.Load(lcResponseBody)

* These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
loDtime = CreateObject('Chilkat.CkDateTime')
lnBLocalTime = 1
loDt = CreateObject('Chilkat.DtObj')

* Iterate over each account returned.
lnNumAccounts = loJson.SizeOfArray("QueryResponse.Account")
i = 0
DO WHILE i < lnNumAccounts

    loJson.I = i
    ? "Name: " + loJson.StringOf("QueryResponse.Account[i].Name")
    ? "Id: " + loJson.StringOf("QueryResponse.Account[i].Id")

    * Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
    loDtime.SetFromTimestamp(loJson.StringOf("QueryResponse.Account[i].MetaData.CreateTime"))
    loDtime.ToDtObj(lnBLocalTime,loDt)

    ? STR(loDt.Month) + "/" + STR(loDt.Day) + "/" + STR(loDt.Year) + "  " + STR(loDt.Hour) + ":" + STR(loDt.Minute)

    ? "----"
    i = i + 1
ENDDO

? "Success."

* ------------------------------------------------------
* The JSON response looks like this:

* {
*   "QueryResponse": {
*     "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"
*         }
*       },
*       {
*         "Name": "Accounts Receivable (A/R)",
*         "SubAccount": false,
*         "FullyQualifiedName": "Accounts Receivable (A/R)",
*         "Active": true,
*         "Classification": "Asset",
*         "AccountType": "Accounts Receivable",
*         "AccountSubType": "AccountsReceivable",
*         "CurrentBalance": 5281.52,
*         "CurrentBalanceWithSubAccounts": 5281.52,
*         "CurrencyRef": {
*           "value": "USD",
*           "name": "United States Dollar"
*         },
*         "domain": "QBO",
*         "sparse": false,
*         "Id": "84",
*         "SyncToken": "0",
*         "MetaData": {
*           "CreateTime": "2016-09-14T14:49:29-07:00",
*           "LastUpdatedTime": "2016-09-17T13:16:17-07:00"
*         }
*       },
*       {
*         "Name": "Advertising",
*         "SubAccount": false,
*         "FullyQualifiedName": "Advertising",
*         "Active": true,
*         "Classification": "Expense",
*         "AccountType": "Expense",
*         "AccountSubType": "AdvertisingPromotional",
*         "CurrentBalance": 0,
*         "CurrentBalanceWithSubAccounts": 0,
*         "CurrencyRef": {
*           "value": "USD",
*           "name": "United States Dollar"
*         },
*         "domain": "QBO",
*         "sparse": false,
*         "Id": "7",
*         "SyncToken": "0",
*         "MetaData": {
*           "CreateTime": "2016-09-09T14:42:07-07:00",
*           "LastUpdatedTime": "2016-09-09T14:42:07-07:00"
*         }
*       },
* ...
*   "time": "2016-10-24T15:35:25.067-07:00"
* 

RELEASE loJsonToken
RELEASE loRest
RELEASE loSbAuth
RELEASE loJson
RELEASE loDtime
RELEASE loDt