VB.NET

QuickBooks - Read an Account

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

' 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"
' }

Dim jsonToken As New Chilkat.JsonObject
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json")

Dim rest As New Chilkat.Rest

' 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.
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean = True
success = rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,True,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Dim sbAuth As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
sbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
sbAuth.Append(jsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))
rest.Authorization = sbAuth.GetAsString()

rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
rest.AllowHeaderFolding = False

' The company ID is the 123146096291789
' The account ID is 29
Dim responseBody As String = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/account/29?minorversion=45")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' We should expect a 200 response if successful.
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


' Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
' A sample JSON response is shown below.
Dim json As New Chilkat.JsonObject
json.Load(responseBody)

' These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
Dim dtime As New Chilkat.CkDateTime
Dim bLocalTime As Boolean = True

' Show the JSON..
json.EmitCompact = False
Debug.WriteLine(json.Emit())

' Get some information from the JSON..
Debug.WriteLine("Name: " & json.StringOf("Account.Name"))
Debug.WriteLine("Id: " & json.StringOf("Account.Id"))

' Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.StringOf("Account.MetaData.CreateTime"))
Dim dt As New Chilkat.DtObj
dtime.ToDtObj(bLocalTime,dt)

Debug.WriteLine(dt.Month & "/" & dt.Day & "/" & dt.Year & "  " & dt.Hour & ":" & dt.Minute)

Debug.WriteLine("Success.")

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

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

' {
'   "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"
'         }
'       },
'   "time": "2016-10-24T15:35:25.067-07:00"
'