VB.NET

GeoOp - Find Account ID by Name

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Finds an account ID by name. VB.NET

Dim success As Boolean = False

' This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

' This example also assumes an OAuth2 access token was previously fetched.
' and saved in a JSON file.  

' First get our previously obtained access token.
' {"access_token":"e6dqdG....mzjpT04w==","token_type":"Bearer","expires_in":2592000,"owner_id":999236}
Dim jsonToken As New Chilkat.JsonObject
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/geoop.json")

' This example assumes we previously obtained an access token
Dim oauth2 As New Chilkat.OAuth2
oauth2.AccessToken = jsonToken.StringOf("access_token")

Dim rest As New Chilkat.Rest

' Connect to GeoOp and send the following GET request:

' GET /users HTTP/1.1
' Host: api.geoop.com
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean = True
success = rest.Connect("api.geoop.com",443,True,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
rest.SetAuthOAuth2(oauth2)

' Set the X-Version header.
rest.AddHeader("X-Version","1.0")

Dim responseBody As String = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/accounts")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' If the response status code did not indicate success, then see what happened..
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Request Header: ")
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastRequestHeader)
    Debug.WriteLine("----")
    Debug.WriteLine("Response StatusCode = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode)
    Debug.WriteLine("Response StatusLine: " & rest.ResponseStatusText)
    Debug.WriteLine("Response Header:")
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.ResponseHeader)
    Debug.WriteLine(responseBody)
    Exit Sub
End If


Dim json As New Chilkat.JsonObject
json.EmitCompact = False
json.Load(responseBody)
' Show the full JSON response.  (see the sample response at the bottom of this example)
Debug.WriteLine(json.Emit())

' To find the account id for a given company name:
Dim caseSensitive As Boolean = False
Dim accountId As String = json.FindRecordString("accounts","companyName","Chilkat Software, Inc.",caseSensitive,"id")
If (json.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Account not found.")
Else
    Debug.WriteLine("The account ID is: " & accountId)
End If


' Find the account ID for the 1st company matching "Chilkat*"
accountId = json.FindRecordString("accounts","companyName","Chilkat*",caseSensitive,"id")
If (json.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Account not found.")
Else
    Debug.WriteLine("The account ID is: " & accountId)
End If


' The full JSON response for GET /accounts looks like this:

' 	{
' 	  "result": "success",
' 	  "accounts": [
' 	    {
' 	      "id": 39409,
' 	      "companyName": "Chilkat Software, Inc.",
' 	      "licenses": 999,
' 	      "countryCode": 1
' 	    }
' 	  ],
' 	  "metadata": {
' 	    "page": 1,
' 	    "pagesCount": 1,
' 	    "recordsPerPage": 20,
' 	    "recordsCount": 1
' 	  }
' 	}
'