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QuickBooks - Automatically Refresh Access Token with No User Interaction
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Demonstrates how to automaticaly refresh an expired access token and retry the request after a 401 authorization error.Chilkat Lianja Downloads
llSuccess = .F.
// 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("CkJsonObject")
llSuccess = loJsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json")
loRest = createobject("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.
llBAutoReconnect = .T.
llSuccess = loRest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,.T.,llBAutoReconnect)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
? loRest.LastErrorText
release loJsonToken
release loRest
return
endif
loSbAuth = createobject("CkStringBuilder")
loSbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
loSbAuth.Append(loJsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))
loRest.Authorization = loSbAuth.GetAsString()
loRest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
loRest.AllowHeaderFolding = .F.
// The company ID is 123146096291789
// The employee ID is 58
lcResponseBody = loRest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/employee/58?minorversion=45")
if (loRest.LastMethodSuccess = .F.) then
? loRest.LastErrorText
release loJsonToken
release loRest
release loSbAuth
return
endif
// If we get a 401 authorization error, then it's likely because the access token expired.
// We can automatically refresh it without interaction from the user.
if (loRest.ResponseStatusCode = 401) then
loOauth2 = createobject("CkOAuth2")
loOauth2.TokenEndpoint = "https://oauth.platform.intuit.com/oauth2/v1/tokens/bearer"
// Replace these with actual values.
loOauth2.ClientId = "QUICKBOOKS-CLIENT-ID"
loOauth2.ClientSecret = "QUICKBOOKS-CLIENT-SECRET"
// Get the "refresh_token"
loOauth2.RefreshToken = loJsonToken.StringOf("refresh_token")
// Send the HTTP POST to refresh the access token..
llSuccess = loOauth2.RefreshAccessToken()
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
? loOauth2.LastErrorText
release loJsonToken
release loRest
release loSbAuth
release loOauth2
return
endif
? "New access token: " + loOauth2.AccessToken
// Update the JSON with the new tokens.
loJsonToken.UpdateString("access_token",loOauth2.AccessToken)
// Save the new JSON access token response to a file.
// The access + refresh tokens contained in this JSON will be needed for the next refresh.
loSbJson = createobject("CkStringBuilder")
loJsonToken.EmitCompact = .F.
loJsonToken.EmitSb(loSbJson)
loSbJson.WriteFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json","utf-8",.F.)
? "OAuth2 token refreshed!"
? "New Access Token = " + loOauth2.AccessToken
loSbAuth.Clear()
loSbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
loSbAuth.Append(loOauth2.AccessToken)
loRest.Authorization = loSbAuth.GetAsString()
// Now retry the request with the refreshed access token...
lcResponseBody = loRest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/employee/58?minorversion=45")
if (loRest.LastMethodSuccess = .F.) then
? loRest.LastErrorText
release loJsonToken
release loRest
release loSbAuth
release loOauth2
release loSbJson
return
endif
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 loOauth2
release loSbJson
return
endif
// Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
// A sample JSON response is shown below.
loJson = createobject("CkJsonObject")
loJson.Load(lcResponseBody)
// These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
loDtime = createobject("CkDateTime")
llBLocalTime = .T.
// Show the JSON.
loJson.EmitCompact = .F.
? loJson.Emit()
// Get some information from the JSON..
? "Name: " + loJson.StringOf("Employee.DisplayName")
? "Id: " + loJson.StringOf("Employee.Id")
? "City: " + loJson.StringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.City")
? "PostalCode: " + loJson.StringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.PostalCode")
// Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
loDtime.SetFromTimestamp(loJson.StringOf("Employee.MetaData.CreateTime"))
loDt = createobject("CkDtObj")
loDtime.ToDtObj(llBLocalTime,loDt)
? str(loDt.Month) + "/" + str(loDt.Day) + "/" + str(loDt.Year) + " " + str(loDt.Hour) + ":" + str(loDt.Minute)
? "Success."
// Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON:
// Generate Parsing Code from JSON
// ------------------------------------------------------
// The JSON response looks like this:
// {
// "Employee": {
// "SSN": "XXX-XX-XXXX",
// "PrimaryAddr": {
// "Id": "116",
// "Line1": "45 N. Elm Street",
// "City": "Middlefield",
// "CountrySubDivisionCode": "CA",
// "PostalCode": "93242"
// },
// "BillableTime": false,
// "domain": "QBO",
// "sparse": false,
// "Id": "98",
// "SyncToken": "0",
// "MetaData": {
// "CreateTime": "2015-07-24T09:34:35-07:00",
// "LastUpdatedTime": "2015-07-24T09:34:35-07:00"
// },
// "GivenName": "Bill",
// "FamilyName": "Miller",
// "DisplayName": "Bill Miller",
// "PrintOnCheckName": "Bill Miller",
// "Active": true,
// "PrimaryPhone": {
// "FreeFormNumber": "234-525-1234"
// }
// },
// "time": "2015-07-24T09:35:54.805-07:00"
//
release loJsonToken
release loRest
release loSbAuth
release loOauth2
release loSbJson
release loJson
release loDtime
release loDt