(Go) QuickBooks - Read an Employee (with Error Response)

Demonstrates how to fetch the information for a specific Quickbooks employee, but tries to fetch using an invalid employee id. Shows the error response and how to parse it.

For more information, see https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/all-entities/employee#read-an-employee

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    // 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"
    // }

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

    rest := chilkat.NewRest()

    // 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.
    bAutoReconnect := true
    success = rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,true,bAutoReconnect)
    if success != true {
        fmt.Println(rest.LastErrorText())
        jsonToken.DisposeJsonObject()
        rest.DisposeRest()
        return
    }

    sbAuth := chilkat.NewStringBuilder()
    sbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
    sbAuth.Append(*jsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))
    rest.SetAuthorization(sbAuth.GetAsString())

    rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
    rest.SetAllowHeaderFolding(false)

    // The company ID is 123146096291789
    // The employee ID is 999  (There is no employee with this ID and we should get a 400 response code w/ a response body indicating the error.)
    responseBody := rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/employee/999?minorversion=45")
    if rest.LastMethodSuccess() != true {
        fmt.Println(rest.LastErrorText())
        jsonToken.DisposeJsonObject()
        rest.DisposeRest()
        sbAuth.DisposeStringBuilder()
        return
    }

    // Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
    // A sample JSON response is shown below.
    json := chilkat.NewJsonObject()
    json.Load(*responseBody)
    json.SetEmitCompact(false)
    fmt.Println(*json.Emit())

    // A 400 response is what we'd expect if trying to query for a non-existent employee ID
    if rest.ResponseStatusCode() != 400 {
        fmt.Println("Request Header: ")
        fmt.Println(rest.LastRequestHeader())
        fmt.Println("----")
        fmt.Println("Response StatusCode = ", rest.ResponseStatusCode())
        fmt.Println("Response StatusLine: ", rest.ResponseStatusText())
        fmt.Println("Response Header:")
        fmt.Println(rest.ResponseHeader())
        jsonToken.DisposeJsonObject()
        rest.DisposeRest()
        sbAuth.DisposeStringBuilder()
        json.DisposeJsonObject()
        return
    }

    // If we got here, the response status code was 400..
    // Iterate over the errors..
    numErrors := json.SizeOfArray("Fault.Error")
    i := 0
    for i < numErrors {

        json.SetI(i)
        fmt.Println("Message: ", *json.StringOf("Fault.Error[i].Message"))
        fmt.Println("Detail: ", *json.StringOf("Fault.Error[i].Detail"))
        fmt.Println("code: ", *json.StringOf("Fault.Error[i].code"))
        fmt.Println("----")
        i = i + 1
    }

    // ------------------------------------------------------
    // The JSON error response looks like this:

    // {
    //   "Fault": {
    //     "Error": [
    //       {
    //         "Message": "Object Not Found",
    //         "Detail": "Object Not Found : Something you're trying to use has been made inactive. Check the fields with accounts, customers, items, vendors or employees.",
    //         "code": "610",
    //         "element": ""
    //       }
    //     ],
    //     "type": "ValidationFault"
    //   },
    //   "time": "2020-03-07T10:21:19.089-08:00"
    // }

    jsonToken.DisposeJsonObject()
    rest.DisposeRest()
    sbAuth.DisposeStringBuilder()
    json.DisposeJsonObject()