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Populi Add Financial Aid Disbursement

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Demonstrates the Populi addFinancialAidDisbursement task.

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Local $bSuccess = False

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

; First load the previously obtained API token.
; See Get Populi Access Token for sample code showing how to get the API token.
$oXml = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Xml")
$bSuccess = $oXml.LoadXmlFile("qa_data/tokens/populi_token.xml")
Local $sAccessKey = $oXml.GetChildContent("access_key")
If ($oXml.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite("Did not find the access_key" & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

$oRest = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Rest")

; Connect using TLS.
; A single REST object, once connected, can be used for many Populi 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.
Local $bAutoReconnect = True
$bSuccess = $oRest.Connect("yourcollege.populi.co",443,True,$bAutoReconnect)
If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

$oRest.Authorization = $sAccessKey

$oRest.AddQueryParam("task","addFinancialAidDisbursement")
$oRest.AddQueryParam("person_id","12345678")
$oRest.AddQueryParam("award_id","555555")
$oRest.AddQueryParam("academic_term_id","123")
$oRest.AddQueryParam("scheduled_date","2019-10-10")
$oRest.AddQueryParam("amount","12345")

Local $sResponseBody = $oRest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded("POST","/api/index.php")
If ($oRest.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; We should expect a 200 response if successful.
If ($oRest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    ConsoleWrite("Request Header: " & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.LastRequestHeader & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("----" & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("Response StatusCode = " & $oRest.ResponseStatusCode & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("Response StatusLine: " & $oRest.ResponseStatusText & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("Response Header:" & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.ResponseHeader & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("Response Body:" & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite($sResponseBody & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

$oXml.LoadXml($sResponseBody)
ConsoleWrite($oXml.GetXml() & @CRLF)

; Sample response:
; Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample XML: 
; Generate Parsing Code from XML

; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
; <result>
; 	<disbursement>123456</disbursement>
; </result>

Local $iDisbursement
$iDisbursement = $oXml.GetChildIntValue("disbursement")