QuickBooks - Query an Account

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var success = false;

// 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"
// }

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

var rest = new CkRest();

// 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.
var bAutoReconnect = true;
success = rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,true,bAutoReconnect);
if (success == false) {
    console.log(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

var sbAuth = new CkStringBuilder();
sbAuth.Append("Bearer ");
sbAuth.Append(jsonToken.StringOf("access_token"));
rest.Authorization = sbAuth.GetAsString();

rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json");
rest.AllowHeaderFolding = false;

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

// The company ID is 123146096291789
var responseBody = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/query");
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
    console.log(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

rest.ClearAllQueryParams();

// We should expect a 200 response if successful.
if (rest.ResponseStatusCode !== 200) {
    console.log("Request Header: ");
    console.log(rest.LastRequestHeader);
    console.log("----");
    console.log("Response StatusCode = " + rest.ResponseStatusCode);
    console.log("Response StatusLine: " + rest.ResponseStatusText);
    console.log("Response Header:");
    console.log(rest.ResponseHeader);
    console.log(responseBody);
    return;
}

// 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.
var json = new CkJsonObject();
json.Load(responseBody);

// These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
var dtime = new CkDateTime();
var bLocalTime = true;
var dt = new CkDtObj();

// Iterate over each account returned.
var numAccounts = json.SizeOfArray("QueryResponse.Account");
var i = 0;
while (i < numAccounts) {

    json.I = i;
    console.log("Name: " + json.StringOf("QueryResponse.Account[i].Name"));
    console.log("Id: " + json.StringOf("QueryResponse.Account[i].Id"));

    // Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
    dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.StringOf("QueryResponse.Account[i].MetaData.CreateTime"));
    dtime.ToDtObj(bLocalTime,dt);

    console.log(dt.Month + "/" + dt.Day + "/" + dt.Year + "  " + dt.Hour + ":" + dt.Minute);

    console.log("----");
    i = i+1;
}

console.log("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"
//