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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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load ./chilkat.dll

set success 0

#  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 == 0} 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] == 0} 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
set dt [new_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"]
    CkDateTime_ToDtObj $dtime $bLocalTime $dt

    puts [CkDtObj_get_Month $dt]/[CkDtObj_get_Day $dt]/[CkDtObj_get_Year $dt]  [CkDtObj_get_Hour $dt]:[CkDtObj_get_Minute $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
delete_CkDtObj $dt