(Tcl) QuickBooks - Query an Account

Demonstrates how to query the QuickBooks chart of accounts.

For more information, see https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/ecommerce/account#query-an-account

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load ./chilkat.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"
# }

set jsonToken [new_CkJsonObject]

set success [CkJsonObject_LoadFile $jsonToken "qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json"]

set rest [new_CkRest]

# 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.
set bAutoReconnect 1
set success [CkRest_Connect $rest "sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com" 443 1 $bAutoReconnect]
if {$success != 1} then {
    puts [CkRest_lastErrorText $rest]
    delete_CkJsonObject $jsonToken
    delete_CkRest $rest
    exit
}

set sbAuth [new_CkStringBuilder]

CkStringBuilder_Append $sbAuth "Bearer "
CkStringBuilder_Append $sbAuth [CkJsonObject_stringOf $jsonToken "access_token"]
CkRest_put_Authorization $rest [CkStringBuilder_getAsString $sbAuth]

CkRest_AddHeader $rest "Accept" "application/json"
CkRest_put_AllowHeaderFolding $rest 0

# Add a SELECT statement 
CkRest_AddQueryParam $rest "query" "select * from Account where Metadata.CreateTime > '2014-12-31'"
CkRest_AddQueryParam $rest "minorversion" "45"

# The company ID is 123146096291789
set responseBody [CkRest_fullRequestNoBody $rest "GET" "/v3/company/123146096291789/query"]
if {[CkRest_get_LastMethodSuccess $rest] != 1} then {
    puts [CkRest_lastErrorText $rest]
    delete_CkJsonObject $jsonToken
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbAuth
    exit
}

CkRest_ClearAllQueryParams $rest

# We should expect a 200 response if successful.
if {[CkRest_get_ResponseStatusCode $rest] != 200} then {
    puts "Request Header: "
    puts [CkRest_lastRequestHeader $rest]
    puts "----"
    puts "Response StatusCode = [CkRest_get_ResponseStatusCode $rest]"
    puts "Response StatusLine: [CkRest_responseStatusText $rest]"
    puts "Response Header:"
    puts [CkRest_responseHeader $rest]
    puts "$responseBody"
    delete_CkJsonObject $jsonToken
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbAuth
    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.
set json [new_CkJsonObject]

CkJsonObject_Load $json $responseBody

# These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
set dtime [new_CkDateTime]

set bLocalTime 1
# dt is a CkDtObj

# Iterate over each account returned.
set numAccounts [CkJsonObject_SizeOfArray $json "QueryResponse.Account"]
set i 0
while {$i < $numAccounts} {

    CkJsonObject_put_I $json $i
    puts "Name: [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json {QueryResponse.Account[i].Name}]"
    puts "Id: [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json {QueryResponse.Account[i].Id}]"

    # Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
    CkDateTime_SetFromTimestamp $dtime [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "QueryResponse.Account[i].MetaData.CreateTime"]
    set dt [CkDateTime_GetDtObj $dtime $bLocalTime]
    puts [CkDtObj_get_Month $dt]/[CkDtObj_get_Day $dt]/[CkDtObj_get_Year $dt]  [CkDtObj_get_Hour $dt]:[CkDtObj_get_Minute $dt]
    delete_CkDtObj $dt

    puts "----"
    set i [expr $i + 1]
}

puts "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"
# 

delete_CkJsonObject $jsonToken
delete_CkRest $rest
delete_CkStringBuilder $sbAuth
delete_CkJsonObject $json
delete_CkDateTime $dtime