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QuickBooks - Query an Account
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Demonstrates how to query the QuickBooks chart of accounts.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
' Add a SELECT statement
success = rest.AddQueryParam("query","select * from Account where Metadata.CreateTime > '2014-12-31'")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("minorversion","45")
' The company ID is 123146096291789
responseBody = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/query")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
WScript.Quit
End If
success = rest.ClearAllQueryParams()
' 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
' Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON:
' Generate Parsing Code from JSON
' 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
set dt = CreateObject("Chilkat.DtObj")
' Iterate over each account returned.
numAccounts = json.SizeOfArray("QueryResponse.Account")
i = 0
Do While i < numAccounts
json.I = i
outFile.WriteLine("Name: " & json.StringOf("QueryResponse.Account[i].Name"))
outFile.WriteLine("Id: " & json.StringOf("QueryResponse.Account[i].Id"))
' Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
success = dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.StringOf("QueryResponse.Account[i].MetaData.CreateTime"))
dtime.ToDtObj bLocalTime,dt
outFile.WriteLine(dt.Month & "/" & dt.Day & "/" & dt.Year & " " & dt.Hour & ":" & dt.Minute)
outFile.WriteLine("----")
i = i + 1
Loop
outFile.WriteLine("Success.")
' ------------------------------------------------------
' The JSON response looks like this:
' {
' "QueryResponse": {
' "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"
' }
' },
' {
' "Name": "Accounts Receivable (A/R)",
' "SubAccount": false,
' "FullyQualifiedName": "Accounts Receivable (A/R)",
' "Active": true,
' "Classification": "Asset",
' "AccountType": "Accounts Receivable",
' "AccountSubType": "AccountsReceivable",
' "CurrentBalance": 5281.52,
' "CurrentBalanceWithSubAccounts": 5281.52,
' "CurrencyRef": {
' "value": "USD",
' "name": "United States Dollar"
' },
' "domain": "QBO",
' "sparse": false,
' "Id": "84",
' "SyncToken": "0",
' "MetaData": {
' "CreateTime": "2016-09-14T14:49:29-07:00",
' "LastUpdatedTime": "2016-09-17T13:16:17-07:00"
' }
' },
' {
' "Name": "Advertising",
' "SubAccount": false,
' "FullyQualifiedName": "Advertising",
' "Active": true,
' "Classification": "Expense",
' "AccountType": "Expense",
' "AccountSubType": "AdvertisingPromotional",
' "CurrentBalance": 0,
' "CurrentBalanceWithSubAccounts": 0,
' "CurrencyRef": {
' "value": "USD",
' "name": "United States Dollar"
' },
' "domain": "QBO",
' "sparse": false,
' "Id": "7",
' "SyncToken": "0",
' "MetaData": {
' "CreateTime": "2016-09-09T14:42:07-07:00",
' "LastUpdatedTime": "2016-09-09T14:42:07-07:00"
' }
' },
' ...
' "time": "2016-10-24T15:35:25.067-07:00"
'
outFile.Close