(Node.js) QuickBooks - Read an Employee (with Error Response)

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

Install Chilkat for Node.js and Electron using npm at Chilkat npm packages for Node.js Chilkat npm packages for Electron on Windows, Linux, MacOSX, and ARM

var os = require('os');
if (os.platform() == 'win32') {  
    if (os.arch() == 'ia32') {
        var chilkat = require('@chilkat/ck-node11-win-ia32');
    } else {
        var chilkat = require('@chilkat/ck-node11-win64'); 
    }
} else if (os.platform() == 'linux') {
    if (os.arch() == 'arm') {
        var chilkat = require('@chilkat/ck-node11-arm');
    } else if (os.arch() == 'x86') {
        var chilkat = require('@chilkat/ck-node11-linux32');
    } else {
        var chilkat = require('@chilkat/ck-node11-linux64');
    }
} else if (os.platform() == 'darwin') {
    var chilkat = require('@chilkat/ck-node11-macosx');
}

function chilkatExample() {

    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    // This example also assumes an OAuth1 access token was previously fetched.
    // and saved in a JSON file.  See the Chilkat online examples at example-code.com
    // for Quickbooks OAuth1 examples (in the Quickbooks and OAuth1 categories)
    // 

    // First get our previously obtained access token.
    var jsonToken = new chilkat.JsonObject();
    var success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/quickbooks.json");

    var oauth1 = new chilkat.OAuth1();
    oauth1.ConsumerKey = "QUICKBOOKS_CONSUMER_KEY";
    oauth1.ConsumerSecret = "QUICKBOOKS_CONSUMER_SECRET";
    oauth1.Token = jsonToken.StringOf("oauth_token");
    oauth1.TokenSecret = jsonToken.StringOf("oauth_token_secret");

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

    rest.SetAuthOAuth1(oauth1,false);

    // The company ID is the realmId
    var sbPath = new chilkat.StringBuilder();
    sbPath.Append("/v3/company/<companyID>/employee/<employeeID>");
    var numReplacements = sbPath.Replace("<companyID>",jsonToken.StringOf("realmId"));
    // Assume we already know that we want to read the employee whose Id = 98.
    // We know this employee was made inactive, and we should get an error response.
    numReplacements = sbPath.Replace("<employeeID>","98");

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

    var responseBody = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET",sbPath.GetAsString());
    if (rest.LastMethodSuccess !== true) {
        console.log(rest.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
    // A sample JSON response is shown below.
    var json = new chilkat.JsonObject();
    json.Load(responseBody);
    json.EmitCompact = false;
    console.log(json.Emit());

    // A 400 response is what we'd expect if trying to query an inactive employee...
    if (rest.ResponseStatusCode !== 400) {
        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);
        return;
    }

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

        json.I = i;
        console.log("Message: " + json.StringOf("Fault.Error[i].Message"));
        console.log("Detail: " + json.StringOf("Fault.Error[i].Detail"));
        console.log("code: " + json.StringOf("Fault.Error[i].code"));
        console.log("----");
        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": "2016-10-25T14:56:37.335-07:00"
    // }
    // 

}

chilkatExample();