Android™

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. Android™

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = 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"
    // }

    CkJsonObject jsonToken = new CkJsonObject();
    success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json");

    CkRest 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.
    boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,true,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    CkStringBuilder sbAuth = new CkStringBuilder();
    sbAuth.Append("Bearer ");
    sbAuth.Append(jsonToken.stringOf("access_token"));
    rest.put_Authorization(sbAuth.getAsString());

    rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json");
    rest.put_AllowHeaderFolding(false);

    // The company ID is the 123146096291789
    // The account ID is 29
    String responseBody = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/account/29?minorversion=45");
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // We should expect a 200 response if successful.
    if (rest.get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
        Log.i(TAG, "Request Header: ");
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastRequestHeader());
        Log.i(TAG, "----");
        Log.i(TAG, "Response StatusCode = " + String.valueOf(rest.get_ResponseStatusCode()));
        Log.i(TAG, "Response StatusLine: " + rest.responseStatusText());
        Log.i(TAG, "Response Header:");
        Log.i(TAG, rest.responseHeader());
        Log.i(TAG, responseBody);
        return;
        }

    // Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
    // A sample JSON response is shown below.
    CkJsonObject json = new CkJsonObject();
    json.Load(responseBody);

    // These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
    CkDateTime dtime = new CkDateTime();
    boolean bLocalTime = true;

    // Show the JSON..
    json.put_EmitCompact(false);
    Log.i(TAG, json.emit());

    // Get some information from the JSON..
    Log.i(TAG, "Name: " + json.stringOf("Account.Name"));
    Log.i(TAG, "Id: " + json.stringOf("Account.Id"));

    // Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
    dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.stringOf("Account.MetaData.CreateTime"));
    CkDtObj dt = new CkDtObj();
    dtime.ToDtObj(bLocalTime,dt);

    Log.i(TAG, String.valueOf(dt.get_Month()) + "/" + String.valueOf(dt.get_Day()) + "/" + String.valueOf(dt.get_Year())
         + "  " + String.valueOf(dt.get_Hour()) + ":" + String.valueOf(dt.get_Minute()));

    Log.i(TAG, "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"
    // 

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}