(Lianja) 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"
// }

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 <> .T.) 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 999  (There is no employee with this ID and we should get a 400 response code w/ a response body indicating the error.)
lcResponseBody = loRest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/employee/999?minorversion=45")
if (loRest.LastMethodSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    release loJsonToken
    release loRest
    release loSbAuth
    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)
loJson.EmitCompact = .F.
? loJson.Emit()

// A 400 response is what we'd expect if trying to query for a non-existent employee ID
if (loRest.ResponseStatusCode <> 400) then
    ? "Request Header: "
    ? loRest.LastRequestHeader
    ? "----"
    ? "Response StatusCode = " + str(loRest.ResponseStatusCode)
    ? "Response StatusLine: " + loRest.ResponseStatusText
    ? "Response Header:"
    ? loRest.ResponseHeader
    release loJsonToken
    release loRest
    release loSbAuth
    release loJson
    return
endif

// If we got here, the response status code was 400..
// Iterate over the errors..
lnNumErrors = loJson.SizeOfArray("Fault.Error")
i = 0
do while i < lnNumErrors

    loJson.I = i
    ? "Message: " + loJson.StringOf("Fault.Error[i].Message")
    ? "Detail: " + loJson.StringOf("Fault.Error[i].Detail")
    ? "code: " + loJson.StringOf("Fault.Error[i].code")
    ? "----"
    i = i + 1
enddo

// ------------------------------------------------------
// 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"
// }


release loJsonToken
release loRest
release loSbAuth
release loJson