(Tcl) QuickBooks - Read an Employee

Demonstrates how to fetch the information for a specific Quickbooks employee. The employee information is fetched by Id. The employee Ids can be obtained by querying the employees and parsing the JSON that is returned.

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

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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

# The company ID is 123146096291789
# The employee ID is 58
set responseBody [CkRest_fullRequestNoBody $rest "GET" "/v3/company/123146096291789/employee/58?minorversion=45"]
if {[CkRest_get_LastMethodSuccess $rest] != 1} then {
    puts [CkRest_lastErrorText $rest]
    delete_CkJsonObject $jsonToken
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbAuth
    exit
}

# 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
}

# 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

# Show the JSON.   
CkJsonObject_put_EmitCompact $json 0
puts [CkJsonObject_emit $json]

# Get some information from the JSON..
puts "Name: [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json Employee.DisplayName]"
puts "Id: [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json Employee.Id]"
puts "City: [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json Employee.PrimaryAddr.City]"
puts "PostalCode: [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json Employee.PrimaryAddr.PostalCode]"

# Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
CkDateTime_SetFromTimestamp $dtime [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "Employee.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 "Success."

# Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
# Generate Parsing Code from JSON

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

# {
#   "Employee": {
#     "SSN": "XXX-XX-XXXX",
#     "PrimaryAddr": {
#       "Id": "116",
#       "Line1": "45 N. Elm Street",
#       "City": "Middlefield",
#       "CountrySubDivisionCode": "CA",
#       "PostalCode": "93242"
#     },
#     "BillableTime": false,
#     "domain": "QBO",
#     "sparse": false,
#     "Id": "98",
#     "SyncToken": "0",
#     "MetaData": {
#       "CreateTime": "2015-07-24T09:34:35-07:00",
#       "LastUpdatedTime": "2015-07-24T09:34:35-07:00"
#     },
#     "GivenName": "Bill",
#     "FamilyName": "Miller",
#     "DisplayName": "Bill Miller",
#     "PrintOnCheckName": "Bill Miller",
#     "Active": true,
#     "PrimaryPhone": {
#       "FreeFormNumber": "234-525-1234"
#     }
#   },
#   "time": "2015-07-24T09:35:54.805-07:00"
# 

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