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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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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.

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

$rest = New-Object Chilkat.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.
$bAutoReconnect = $true
$success = $rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,$true,$bAutoReconnect)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$sbAuth = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$sbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
$sbAuth.Append($jsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))
$rest.Authorization = $sbAuth.GetAsString()

$rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
$rest.AllowHeaderFolding = $false

#  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.LastMethodSuccess -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$rest.ClearAllQueryParams()

#  We should expect a 200 response if successful.
if ($rest.ResponseStatusCode -ne 200) {
    $("Request Header: ")
    $($rest.LastRequestHeader)
    $("----")
    $("Response StatusCode = " + $rest.ResponseStatusCode)
    $("Response StatusLine: " + $rest.ResponseStatusText)
    $("Response Header:")
    $($rest.ResponseHeader)
    $($responseBody)
    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 = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json.Load($responseBody)

#  These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
$dtime = New-Object Chilkat.CkDateTime
$bLocalTime = $true
$dt = New-Object Chilkat.DtObj

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

    $json.I = $i
    $("Name: " + $json.StringOf("QueryResponse.Account[i].Name"))
    $("Id: " + $json.StringOf("QueryResponse.Account[i].Id"))

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

    $([string]$dt.Month + "/" + $dt.Day + "/" + $dt.Year + "  " + $dt.Hour + ":" + $dt.Minute)

    $("----")
    $i = $i + 1
}

$("Success.")

#  ------------------------------------------------------
#  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"
#  }