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Test Salesforce OAuth2 Access Token

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Demonstrates how to make a simple Salesforce REST API call to test a previously obtained access token.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

// This example does the following:

// curl -X GET https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/userinfo \
//      -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"

$http = new CkHttp();

// Use the following online tool to generate HTTP code from a CURL command
// Convert a cURL Command to HTTP Source Code

// This example assumes the OAuth2 access token was previously fetched 
// and saved to a file.  See Get SalesForce OAuth2 Access Token via Authorization Flow

$json = new CkJsonObject();
$success = $json->LoadFile('qa_data/tokens/_salesforce.json');
if ($success == false) {
    print 'Failed to load OAuth2 access token.' . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Here's an example of the JSON:

// {
//   "access_token": "00D41000....uLZBpT6",
//   "refresh_token": "5Aep....25xdGgkrV",
//   "signature": "cjTbSc5DvcKpaMoRTzuQTJLb1tcMw8LEO01flq4aMD4=",
//   "scope": "refresh_token id",
//   "instance_url": "https://d41000000f8a0eak-dev-ed.my.salesforce.com",
//   "id": "https://login.salesforce.com/id/00D41000000F8A0EAK/005410000....xAAE",
//   "token_type": "Bearer",
//   "issued_at": "1738348388166"
// }

// Adds the "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" header.
$http->put_AuthToken($json->stringOf('access_token'));

// We want to build the following URL:  https://<instance_id>.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/userinfo
$sbUrl = new CkStringBuilder();
$sbUrl->Append($json->stringOf('instance_url'));
$sbUrl->Append('/services/oauth2/userinfo');

$sbResponseBody = new CkStringBuilder();
$success = $http->QuickGetSb($sbUrl->getAsString(),$sbResponseBody);
if ($success == false) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Response status code = ' . $http->get_LastStatus() . "\n";

$jsonResponse = new CkJsonObject();
$jsonResponse->LoadSb($sbResponseBody);
$jsonResponse->put_EmitCompact(false);
print $jsonResponse->emit() . "\n";

// The expected JSON response is something like this:

// {
//   "sub": "005xxxxxxxxxxxx",
//   "name": "John Doe",
//   "preferred_username": "johndoe@example.com",
//   "email": "johndoe@example.com",
//   "profile": "https://na85.salesforce.com/005xxxxxxxxxxxx"
// ...
// ...
// }

?>