(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.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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

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

# 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] == 0} 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]

# 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 bLocalTime 1
set dt [new_CkDtObj]

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 "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
delete_CkDtObj $dt