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GeoOp - Find Account ID by Name

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Finds an account ID by name.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

# This example also assumes an OAuth2 access token was previously fetched.
# and saved in a JSON file.  

# First get our previously obtained access token.
# {"access_token":"e6dqdG....mzjpT04w==","token_type":"Bearer","expires_in":2592000,"owner_id":999236}
$jsonToken = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$success = $jsonToken->LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/geoop.json");

# This example assumes we previously obtained an access token
$oauth2 = chilkat::CkOAuth2->new();
$oauth2->put_AccessToken($jsonToken->stringOf("access_token"));

$rest = chilkat::CkRest->new();

# Connect to GeoOp and send the following GET request:

# GET /users HTTP/1.1
# Host: api.geoop.com
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect("api.geoop.com",443,1,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
$rest->SetAuthOAuth2($oauth2);

# Set the X-Version header.
$rest->AddHeader("X-Version","1.0");

$responseBody = $rest->fullRequestNoBody("GET","/accounts");
if ($rest->get_LastMethodSuccess() != 1) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# If the response status code did not indicate success, then see what happened..
if ($rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
    print "Request Header: " . "\r\n";
    print $rest->lastRequestHeader() . "\r\n";
    print "----" . "\r\n";
    print "Response StatusCode = " . $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() . "\r\n";
    print "Response StatusLine: " . $rest->responseStatusText() . "\r\n";
    print "Response Header:" . "\r\n";
    print $rest->responseHeader() . "\r\n";
    print $responseBody . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$json->put_EmitCompact(0);
$json->Load($responseBody);
# Show the full JSON response.  (see the sample response at the bottom of this example)
print $json->emit() . "\r\n";

# To find the account id for a given company name:
$caseSensitive = 0;
$accountId = $json->findRecordString("accounts","companyName","Chilkat Software, Inc.",$caseSensitive,"id");
if ($json->get_LastMethodSuccess() != 1) {
    print "Account not found." . "\r\n";
}
else {
    print "The account ID is: " . $accountId . "\r\n";
}

# Find the account ID for the 1st company matching "Chilkat*"
$accountId = $json->findRecordString("accounts","companyName","Chilkat*",$caseSensitive,"id");
if ($json->get_LastMethodSuccess() != 1) {
    print "Account not found." . "\r\n";
}
else {
    print "The account ID is: " . $accountId . "\r\n";
}

# The full JSON response for GET /accounts looks like this:

# 	{
# 	  "result": "success",
# 	  "accounts": [
# 	    {
# 	      "id": 39409,
# 	      "companyName": "Chilkat Software, Inc.",
# 	      "licenses": 999,
# 	      "countryCode": 1
# 	    }
# 	  ],
# 	  "metadata": {
# 	    "page": 1,
# 	    "pagesCount": 1,
# 	    "recordsPerPage": 20,
# 	    "recordsCount": 1
# 	  }
# 	}
#