(PowerShell) QuickBooks - Read an Employee (with Error Response)

Demonstrates how to fetch the information for a specific Quickbooks employee, but tries to fetch using an invalid employee id. Shows the error response and how to parse it.

For more information, see https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/all-entities/employee#read-an-employee

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

# 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 -ne $true) {
    $($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

# The company ID is 123146096291789
# The employee ID is 999  (There is no employee with this ID and we should get a 400 response code w/ a response body indicating the error.)
$responseBody = $rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/employee/999?minorversion=45")
if ($rest.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# 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)
$json.EmitCompact = $false
$($json.Emit())

# A 400 response is what we'd expect if trying to query for a non-existent employee ID
if ($rest.ResponseStatusCode -ne 400) {
    $("Request Header: ")
    $($rest.LastRequestHeader)
    $("----")
    $("Response StatusCode = " + $rest.ResponseStatusCode)
    $("Response StatusLine: " + $rest.ResponseStatusText)
    $("Response Header:")
    $($rest.ResponseHeader)
    exit
}

# If we got here, the response status code was 400..
# Iterate over the errors..
$numErrors = $json.SizeOfArray("Fault.Error")
$i = 0
while ($i -lt $numErrors) {

    $json.I = $i
    $("Message: " + $json.StringOf("Fault.Error[i].Message"))
    $("Detail: " + $json.StringOf("Fault.Error[i].Detail"))
    $("code: " + $json.StringOf("Fault.Error[i].code"))
    $("----")
    $i = $i + 1
}

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

# {
#   "Fault": {
#     "Error": [
#       {
#         "Message": "Object Not Found",
#         "Detail": "Object Not Found : Something you're trying to use has been made inactive. Check the fields with accounts, customers, items, vendors or employees.",
#         "code": "610",
#         "element": ""
#       }
#     ],
#     "type": "ValidationFault"
#   },
#   "time": "2020-03-07T10:21:19.089-08:00"
# }