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GeoOp - Find Account ID by Name

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Finds an account ID by name.

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Ruby
require 'chilkat'

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 = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/geoop.json")

# This example assumes we previously obtained an access token
oauth2 = Chilkat::CkOAuth2.new()
oauth2.put_AccessToken(jsonToken.stringOf("access_token"))

rest = Chilkat::CkRest.new()

# 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 != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# 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.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# If the response status code did not indicate success, then see what happened..
if (rest.get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200)
    print "Request Header: " + "\n";
    print rest.lastRequestHeader() + "\n";
    print "----" + "\n";
    print "Response StatusCode = " + rest.get_ResponseStatusCode().to_s() + "\n";
    print "Response StatusLine: " + rest.responseStatusText() + "\n";
    print "Response Header:" + "\n";
    print rest.responseHeader() + "\n";
    print responseBody + "\n";
    exit
end

json = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
json.put_EmitCompact(false)
json.Load(responseBody)
# Show the full JSON response.  (see the sample response at the bottom of this example)
print json.emit() + "\n";

# To find the account id for a given company name:
caseSensitive = false
accountId = json.findRecordString("accounts","companyName","Chilkat Software, Inc.",caseSensitive,"id")
if (json.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true)
    print "Account not found." + "\n";
else
    print "The account ID is: " + accountId + "\n";
end

# Find the account ID for the 1st company matching "Chilkat*"
accountId = json.findRecordString("accounts","companyName","Chilkat*",caseSensitive,"id")
if (json.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true)
    print "Account not found." + "\n";
else
    print "The account ID is: " + accountId + "\n";
end

# 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
# 	  }
# 	}
#