(Visual FoxPro) DocuSign Create Empty Envelope Draft

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Creates an empty envelope draft. The JSON response includes the envelope ID which can be used to add documents, recipients, etc. until the envelope is ready to send.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

For more information, see https://developers.docusign.com/docs/esign-rest-api/reference/envelopes/envelopes/create/

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loHttp
LOCAL loJsonToken
LOCAL loJson
LOCAL loResp
LOCAL loJResp
LOCAL lnRespStatusCode
LOCAL lcEnvelopeId
LOCAL lcUri
LOCAL lcStatusDateTime
LOCAL lcStatus

lnSuccess = 0

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

loHttp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Http')

* Load a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
loJsonToken = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
lnSuccess = loJsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/docusign.json")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loJsonToken.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loHttp
    RELEASE loJsonToken
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Adds the "Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAi.....UE8Kl_V8KroQ" header.
loHttp.AuthToken = loJsonToken.StringOf("access_token")

* Send the following request.
* Make sure to use your own account ID (obtained from Get Docusign User Account Information)

* POST https://demo.docusign.net/restapi/v2.1/accounts/7f3f65ed-5e87-418d-94c1-92499ddc8252/envelopes HTTP/1.1
* Accept: application/json
* Cache-Control: no-cache
* Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eX...
* Content-Length: ...
* Content-Type: application/json
* 
* {
*   "emailSubject": "Sign for Project XYZ Approval"
* }

loJson = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
loJson.UpdateString("emailSubject","Sign for Project XYZ Approval")

loHttp.SetRequestHeader("Cache-Control","no-cache")
loHttp.SetRequestHeader("Accept","application/json")

* Use your own account ID here.
loHttp.SetUrlVar("accountId","7f3f65ed-5e87-418d-94c1-92499ddc8252")

loResp = CreateObject('Chilkat.HttpResponse')
lnSuccess = loHttp.HttpJson("POST","https://demo.docusign.net/restapi/v2.1/accounts/{$accountId}/envelopes",loJson,"application/json",loResp)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loHttp
    RELEASE loJsonToken
    RELEASE loJson
    RELEASE loResp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

loJResp = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
loJResp.Load(loResp.BodyStr)
loJResp.EmitCompact = 0

? "Response Body:"
? loJResp.Emit()

* If you get a 401 response status code, it's likely you need to refresh the DocuSign OAuth2 token).
lnRespStatusCode = loResp.StatusCode
? "Response Status Code = " + STR(lnRespStatusCode)
IF (lnRespStatusCode >= 400) THEN
    ? "Response Header:"
    ? loResp.Header
    ? "Failed."
    RELEASE loHttp
    RELEASE loJsonToken
    RELEASE loJson
    RELEASE loResp
    RELEASE loJResp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Sample JSON response:
* (Sample code for parsing the JSON response is shown below)

* {
*   "envelopeId": "4943126a-a6e0-40ca-8707-50f22bf3888c",
*   "uri": "/envelopes/4943126a-a6e0-40ca-8707-50f22bf3888c",
*   "statusDateTime": "2021-01-23T20:21:42.1400000Z",
*   "status": "created"
* }

* Sample code for parsing the JSON response...
* Use the following online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON:
* Generate Parsing Code from JSON

lcEnvelopeId = loJResp.StringOf("envelopeId")
lcUri = loJResp.StringOf("uri")
lcStatusDateTime = loJResp.StringOf("statusDateTime")
lcStatus = loJResp.StringOf("status")

RELEASE loHttp
RELEASE loJsonToken
RELEASE loJson
RELEASE loResp
RELEASE loJResp