(PowerBuilder) QuickBooks - Read an Employee

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

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integer li_rc
oleobject loo_JsonToken
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Oauth1
oleobject loo_Rest
integer li_BAutoReconnect
oleobject loo_SbPath
integer li_NumReplacements
string ls_ResponseBody
oleobject loo_Json
oleobject loo_Dtime
integer li_BLocalTime
oleobject loo_Dt

// 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.
loo_JsonToken = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_JsonToken.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_JsonToken
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if
li_Success = loo_JsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/quickbooks.json")

loo_Oauth1 = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Oauth1.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.OAuth1")

loo_Oauth1.ConsumerKey = "QUICKBOOKS_CONSUMER_KEY"
loo_Oauth1.ConsumerSecret = "QUICKBOOKS_CONSUMER_SECRET"
loo_Oauth1.Token = loo_JsonToken.StringOf("oauth_token")
loo_Oauth1.TokenSecret = loo_JsonToken.StringOf("oauth_token_secret")

loo_Rest = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Rest.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.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.
li_BAutoReconnect = 1
li_Success = loo_Rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,1,li_BAutoReconnect)
if li_Success <> 1 then
    Write-Debug loo_Rest.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_JsonToken
    destroy loo_Oauth1
    destroy loo_Rest
    return
end if

loo_Rest.SetAuthOAuth1(loo_Oauth1,0)

// The company ID is the realmId
loo_SbPath = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_SbPath.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder")

loo_SbPath.Append("/v3/company/<companyID>/employee/<employeeID>")
li_NumReplacements = loo_SbPath.Replace("<companyID>",loo_JsonToken.StringOf("realmId"))
// Assume we already know that we want to read the employee whose Id = 60.
li_NumReplacements = loo_SbPath.Replace("<employeeID>","60")

loo_Rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
loo_Rest.AllowHeaderFolding = 0

ls_ResponseBody = loo_Rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET",loo_SbPath.GetAsString())
if loo_Rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1 then
    Write-Debug loo_Rest.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_JsonToken
    destroy loo_Oauth1
    destroy loo_Rest
    destroy loo_SbPath
    return
end if

// We should expect a 200 response if successful.
if loo_Rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200 then
    Write-Debug "Request Header: "
    Write-Debug loo_Rest.LastRequestHeader
    Write-Debug "----"
    Write-Debug "Response StatusCode = " + string(loo_Rest.ResponseStatusCode)
    Write-Debug "Response StatusLine: " + loo_Rest.ResponseStatusText
    Write-Debug "Response Header:"
    Write-Debug loo_Rest.ResponseHeader
    Write-Debug ls_ResponseBody
    destroy loo_JsonToken
    destroy loo_Oauth1
    destroy loo_Rest
    destroy loo_SbPath
    return
end if

// Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
// A sample JSON response is shown below.
loo_Json = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Json.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject")

loo_Json.Load(ls_ResponseBody)

// These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
loo_Dtime = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Dtime.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.CkDateTime")

li_BLocalTime = 1

// Show the JSON.   
loo_Json.EmitCompact = 0
Write-Debug loo_Json.Emit()

// Get some information from the JSON..
Write-Debug "Name: " + loo_Json.StringOf("Employee.DisplayName")
Write-Debug "Id: " + loo_Json.StringOf("Employee.Id")
Write-Debug "City: " + loo_Json.StringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.City")
Write-Debug "PostalCode: " + loo_Json.StringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.PostalCode")

// Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
loo_Dtime.SetFromTimestamp(loo_Json.StringOf("Employee.MetaData.CreateTime"))
loo_Dt = loo_Dtime.GetDtObj(li_BLocalTime)
Write-Debug string(loo_Dt.Month) + "/" + string(loo_Dt.Day) + "/" + string(loo_Dt.Year) + "  " + string(loo_Dt.Hour) + ":" + string(loo_Dt.Minute)
destroy loo_Dt

Write-Debug "Success."

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

// {
//   "Employee": {
//     "SSN": "XXX-XX-XXXX",
//     "PrimaryAddr": {
//       "Id": "116",
//       "Line1": "45 N. Elm Street",
//       "City": "Middlefield",
//       "CountrySubDivisionCode": "CA",
//       "PostalCode": "93242"
//     },
//     "BillableTime": false,
//     "domain": "QBO",
//     "sparse": false,
//     "Id": "98",
//     "SyncToken": "0",
//     "MetaData": {
//       "CreateTime": "2015-07-24T09:34:35-07:00",
//       "LastUpdatedTime": "2015-07-24T09:34:35-07:00"
//     },
//     "GivenName": "Bill",
//     "FamilyName": "Miller",
//     "DisplayName": "Bill Miller",
//     "PrintOnCheckName": "Bill Miller",
//     "Active": true,
//     "PrimaryPhone": {
//       "FreeFormNumber": "234-525-1234"
//     }
//   },
//   "time": "2015-07-24T09:35:54.805-07:00"
// 


destroy loo_JsonToken
destroy loo_Oauth1
destroy loo_Rest
destroy loo_SbPath
destroy loo_Json
destroy loo_Dtime