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GeoOp - Find Account ID by Name

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Finds an account ID by name.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

# 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 = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$success = $jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/geoop.json")

# This example assumes we previously obtained an access token
$oauth2 = New-Object Chilkat.OAuth2
$oauth2.AccessToken = $jsonToken.StringOf("access_token")

$rest = New-Object Chilkat.Rest

# Connect to GeoOp and send the following GET request:

# GET /users HTTP/1.1
# Host: api.geoop.com
$bAutoReconnect = $true
$success = $rest.Connect("api.geoop.com",443,$true,$bAutoReconnect)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    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.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# If the response status code did not indicate success, then see what happened..
if ($rest.ResponseStatusCode -ne 200) {
    $("Request Header: ")
    $($rest.LastRequestHeader)
    $("----")
    $("Response StatusCode = " + $rest.ResponseStatusCode)
    $("Response StatusLine: " + $rest.ResponseStatusText)
    $("Response Header:")
    $($rest.ResponseHeader)
    $($responseBody)
    exit
}

$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json.EmitCompact = $false
$json.Load($responseBody)
# Show the full JSON response.  (see the sample response at the bottom of this example)
$($json.Emit())

# To find the account id for a given company name:
$caseSensitive = $false
$accountId = $json.FindRecordString("accounts","companyName","Chilkat Software, Inc.",$caseSensitive,"id")
if ($json.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
    $("Account not found.")
}
else {
    $("The account ID is: " + $accountId)
}

# Find the account ID for the 1st company matching "Chilkat*"
$accountId = $json.FindRecordString("accounts","companyName","Chilkat*",$caseSensitive,"id")
if ($json.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
    $("Account not found.")
}
else {
    $("The account ID is: " + $accountId)
}

# 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
# 	  }
# 	}
#