(Ruby) 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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require 'chilkat'

# 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 = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json")

rest = Chilkat::CkRest.new()

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

sbAuth = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
sbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
sbAuth.Append(jsonToken.stringOf("access_token"))
rest.put_Authorization(sbAuth.getAsString())

rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
rest.put_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.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
# A sample JSON response is shown below.
json = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
json.Load(responseBody)
json.put_EmitCompact(false)
print json.emit() + "\n";

# A 400 response is what we'd expect if trying to query for a non-existent employee ID
if (rest.get_ResponseStatusCode() != 400)
    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";
    exit
end

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

    json.put_I(i)
    print "Message: " + json.stringOf("Fault.Error[i].Message") + "\n";
    print "Detail: " + json.stringOf("Fault.Error[i].Detail") + "\n";
    print "code: " + json.stringOf("Fault.Error[i].code") + "\n";
    print "----" + "\n";
    i = i + 1
end

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