(Objective-C) QuickBooks - Read an Account

Demonstrates how to fetch the information for a specific Quickbooks account. The account information is fetched by Id. The account Ids can be obtained by querying the accounts and parsing the JSON that is returned.

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

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#import <CkoJsonObject.h>
#import <CkoRest.h>
#import <CkoStringBuilder.h>
#import <NSString.h>
#import <CkoDateTime.h>
#import <CkoDtObj.h>

// 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"
// }

CkoJsonObject *jsonToken = [[CkoJsonObject alloc] init];
BOOL success = [jsonToken LoadFile: @"qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json"];

CkoRest *rest = [[CkoRest alloc] init];

// 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.
BOOL bAutoReconnect = YES;
success = [rest Connect: @"sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com" port: [NSNumber numberWithInt: 443] tls: YES autoReconnect: bAutoReconnect];
if (success != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

CkoStringBuilder *sbAuth = [[CkoStringBuilder alloc] init];
[sbAuth Append: @"Bearer "];
[sbAuth Append: [jsonToken StringOf: @"access_token"]];
rest.Authorization = [sbAuth GetAsString];

[rest AddHeader: @"Accept" value: @"application/json"];
rest.AllowHeaderFolding = NO;

// The company ID is the 123146096291789
// The account ID is 29
NSString *responseBody = [rest FullRequestNoBody: @"GET" uriPath: @"/v3/company/123146096291789/account/29?minorversion=45"];
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// We should expect a 200 response if successful.
if ([rest.ResponseStatusCode intValue] != 200) {
    NSLog(@"%@",@"Request Header: ");
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.LastRequestHeader);
    NSLog(@"%@",@"----");
    NSLog(@"%@%d",@"Response StatusCode = ",[rest.ResponseStatusCode intValue]);
    NSLog(@"%@%@",@"Response StatusLine: ",rest.ResponseStatusText);
    NSLog(@"%@",@"Response Header:");
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.ResponseHeader);
    NSLog(@"%@",responseBody);
    return;
}

// Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
// A sample JSON response is shown below.
CkoJsonObject *json = [[CkoJsonObject alloc] init];
[json Load: responseBody];

// These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
CkoDateTime *dtime = [[CkoDateTime alloc] init];
BOOL bLocalTime = YES;
CkoDtObj *dt = 0;

// Show the JSON..
json.EmitCompact = NO;
NSLog(@"%@",[json Emit]);

// Get some information from the JSON..
NSLog(@"%@%@",@"Name: ",[json StringOf: @"Account.Name"]);
NSLog(@"%@%@",@"Id: ",[json StringOf: @"Account.Id"]);

// Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
[dtime SetFromTimestamp: [json StringOf: @"Account.MetaData.CreateTime"]];
dt = [dtime GetDtObj: bLocalTime];
NSLog(@"%d%@%d%@%d%@%d%@%d",[dt.Month intValue],@"/",[dt.Day intValue],@"/",[dt.Year intValue],@"  ",[dt.Hour intValue]
    ,@":",[dt.Minute intValue]);

NSLog(@"%@",@"Success.");

// Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
// Generate Parsing Code from JSON

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

// {
//   "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"
//         }
//       },
//   "time": "2016-10-24T15:35:25.067-07:00"
//