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QuickBooks - Automatically Refresh Access Token with No User Interaction
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Demonstrates how to automaticaly refresh an expired access token and retry the request after a 401 authorization error.Chilkat VBScript Downloads
Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)
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 = CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json")
set rest = CreateObject("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.
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,1,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = 0) Then
outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
WScript.Quit
End If
set sbAuth = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
success = sbAuth.Append(jsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))
rest.Authorization = sbAuth.GetAsString()
success = rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
rest.AllowHeaderFolding = 0
' The company ID is 123146096291789
' The employee ID is 58
responseBody = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/employee/58?minorversion=45")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
WScript.Quit
End If
' If we get a 401 authorization error, then it's likely because the access token expired.
' We can automatically refresh it without interaction from the user.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode = 401) Then
set oauth2 = CreateObject("Chilkat.OAuth2")
oauth2.TokenEndpoint = "https://oauth.platform.intuit.com/oauth2/v1/tokens/bearer"
' Replace these with actual values.
oauth2.ClientId = "QUICKBOOKS-CLIENT-ID"
oauth2.ClientSecret = "QUICKBOOKS-CLIENT-SECRET"
' Get the "refresh_token"
oauth2.RefreshToken = jsonToken.StringOf("refresh_token")
' Send the HTTP POST to refresh the access token..
success = oauth2.RefreshAccessToken()
If (success = 0) Then
outFile.WriteLine(oauth2.LastErrorText)
WScript.Quit
End If
outFile.WriteLine("New access token: " & oauth2.AccessToken)
' Update the JSON with the new tokens.
success = jsonToken.UpdateString("access_token",oauth2.AccessToken)
' Save the new JSON access token response to a file.
' The access + refresh tokens contained in this JSON will be needed for the next refresh.
set sbJson = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
jsonToken.EmitCompact = 0
success = jsonToken.EmitSb(sbJson)
success = sbJson.WriteFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json","utf-8",0)
outFile.WriteLine("OAuth2 token refreshed!")
outFile.WriteLine("New Access Token = " & oauth2.AccessToken)
sbAuth.Clear
success = sbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
success = sbAuth.Append(oauth2.AccessToken)
rest.Authorization = sbAuth.GetAsString()
' Now retry the request with the refreshed access token...
responseBody = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/employee/58?minorversion=45")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
WScript.Quit
End If
End If
' We should expect a 200 response if successful.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
outFile.WriteLine("Request Header: ")
outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastRequestHeader)
outFile.WriteLine("----")
outFile.WriteLine("Response StatusCode = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode)
outFile.WriteLine("Response StatusLine: " & rest.ResponseStatusText)
outFile.WriteLine("Response Header:")
outFile.WriteLine(rest.ResponseHeader)
outFile.WriteLine(responseBody)
WScript.Quit
End If
' Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
' A sample JSON response is shown below.
set json = CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = json.Load(responseBody)
' These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
set dtime = CreateObject("Chilkat.CkDateTime")
bLocalTime = 1
' Show the JSON.
json.EmitCompact = 0
outFile.WriteLine(json.Emit())
' Get some information from the JSON..
outFile.WriteLine("Name: " & json.StringOf("Employee.DisplayName"))
outFile.WriteLine("Id: " & json.StringOf("Employee.Id"))
outFile.WriteLine("City: " & json.StringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.City"))
outFile.WriteLine("PostalCode: " & json.StringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.PostalCode"))
' Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
success = dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.StringOf("Employee.MetaData.CreateTime"))
set dt = CreateObject("Chilkat.DtObj")
dtime.ToDtObj bLocalTime,dt
outFile.WriteLine(dt.Month & "/" & dt.Day & "/" & dt.Year & " " & dt.Hour & ":" & dt.Minute)
outFile.WriteLine("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"
'
outFile.Close