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QuickBooks - Query an Account

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Demonstrates how to query the QuickBooks chart of accounts.

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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.

# 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"
# }

$jsonToken = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$success = $jsonToken->LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json");

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

# 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.
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,1,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$sbAuth = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$sbAuth->Append("Bearer ");
$sbAuth->Append($jsonToken->stringOf("access_token"));
$rest->put_Authorization($sbAuth->getAsString());

$rest->AddHeader("Accept","application/json");
$rest->put_AllowHeaderFolding(0);

# Add a SELECT statement 
$rest->AddQueryParam("query","select * from Account where Metadata.CreateTime > '2014-12-31'");
$rest->AddQueryParam("minorversion","45");

# The company ID is 123146096291789
$responseBody = $rest->fullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/query");
if ($rest->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$rest->ClearAllQueryParams();

# We should expect a 200 response if successful.
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;
}

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

# Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
# A sample JSON response is shown below.
$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$json->Load($responseBody);

# These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
$dtime = chilkat::CkDateTime->new();
$bLocalTime = 1;
$dt = chilkat::CkDtObj->new();

# Iterate over each account returned.
$numAccounts = $json->SizeOfArray("QueryResponse.Account");
$i = 0;
while ($i < $numAccounts) {

    $json->put_I($i);
    print "Name: " . $json->stringOf("QueryResponse.Account[i].Name") . "\r\n";
    print "Id: " . $json->stringOf("QueryResponse.Account[i].Id") . "\r\n";

    # Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
    $dtime->SetFromTimestamp($json->stringOf("QueryResponse.Account[i].MetaData.CreateTime"));
    $dtime->ToDtObj($bLocalTime,$dt);

    print $dt->get_Month() . "/" . $dt->get_Day() . "/" . $dt->get_Year() . "  " . $dt->get_Hour() . ":"
         . $dt->get_Minute() . "\r\n";

    print "----" . "\r\n";
    $i = $i + 1;
}

print "Success." . "\r\n";

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

# {
#   "QueryResponse": {
#     "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"
#         }
#       },
#       {
#         "Name": "Accounts Receivable (A/R)",
#         "SubAccount": false,
#         "FullyQualifiedName": "Accounts Receivable (A/R)",
#         "Active": true,
#         "Classification": "Asset",
#         "AccountType": "Accounts Receivable",
#         "AccountSubType": "AccountsReceivable",
#         "CurrentBalance": 5281.52,
#         "CurrentBalanceWithSubAccounts": 5281.52,
#         "CurrencyRef": {
#           "value": "USD",
#           "name": "United States Dollar"
#         },
#         "domain": "QBO",
#         "sparse": false,
#         "Id": "84",
#         "SyncToken": "0",
#         "MetaData": {
#           "CreateTime": "2016-09-14T14:49:29-07:00",
#           "LastUpdatedTime": "2016-09-17T13:16:17-07:00"
#         }
#       },
#       {
#         "Name": "Advertising",
#         "SubAccount": false,
#         "FullyQualifiedName": "Advertising",
#         "Active": true,
#         "Classification": "Expense",
#         "AccountType": "Expense",
#         "AccountSubType": "AdvertisingPromotional",
#         "CurrentBalance": 0,
#         "CurrentBalanceWithSubAccounts": 0,
#         "CurrencyRef": {
#           "value": "USD",
#           "name": "United States Dollar"
#         },
#         "domain": "QBO",
#         "sparse": false,
#         "Id": "7",
#         "SyncToken": "0",
#         "MetaData": {
#           "CreateTime": "2016-09-09T14:42:07-07:00",
#           "LastUpdatedTime": "2016-09-09T14:42:07-07:00"
#         }
#       },
# ...
#   "time": "2016-10-24T15:35:25.067-07:00"
#