Classic ASP

Quickbooks Delete an Invoice

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Demonstrates how to delete an invoice using the Quickbooks REST API. Classic ASP

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success = 0

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

'  First get our previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
set jsonToken = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json")

set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

'  Connect to the REST server.
bTls = 1
port = 443
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

set sbAuth = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
success = sbAuth.Append(jsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))
rest.Authorization = sbAuth.GetAsString()

'  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
'  Note: The above code to setup the initial REST connection
'  can be done once.  After connecting, any number of REST calls can be made.
'  If the connection is lost, the next REST method call will automatically
'  reconnect if needed.
'  --------------------------------------------------------------------------

'  Create the following JSON:

'  {
'    "SyncToken": "3",
'    "Id": "33"
'  }
'  
'  Use the this online tool to generate the code from sample JSON: 
'  Generate Code to Create JSON

set jsonReq = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonReq.UpdateString("SyncToken","3")
success = jsonReq.UpdateString("Id","33")

set sbRequestBody = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = jsonReq.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)

success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json")
success = rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
rest.AllowHeaderFolding = 0

set sbResponseBody = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/v3/company/<realmID>/invoice?operation=delete",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode

'  Success is indicated by a 200 response status code.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response status code = " & respStatusCode) & "</pre>"

set jsonResponse = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)
jsonResponse.EmitCompact = 0
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( jsonResponse.Emit()) & "</pre>"

If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Failed.") & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  Sample output...
'  (See the parsing code below..)
'  
'  Use the this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
'  Generate Parsing Code from JSON

'  {
'    "Invoice": {
'      "status": "Deleted",
'      "domain": "QBO",
'      "Id": "33"
'    },
'    "time": "2013-03-15T00:18:15.322-07:00"
'  }
'  

InvoiceStatus = jsonResponse.StringOf("Invoice.status")
InvoiceDomain = jsonResponse.StringOf("Invoice.domain")
InvoiceId = jsonResponse.StringOf("Invoice.Id")
time = jsonResponse.StringOf("time")

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