Lua

GeoOp - Find Account ID by Name

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Finds an account ID by name. Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

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

-- This example also assumes an OAuth2 access token was previously fetched.
-- and saved in a JSON file.

-- First get our previously obtained access token.
-- {"access_token":"e6dqdG....mzjpT04w==","token_type":"Bearer","expires_in":2592000,"owner_id":999236}
local jsonToken = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
local success = jsonToken:load_file("qa_data/tokens/geoop.json")

-- This example assumes we previously obtained an access token
local oauth2 = chilkat.OAuth2.new()
oauth2.access_token = jsonToken:string_of("access_token")

local rest = chilkat.Rest.new()

-- Connect to GeoOp and send the following GET request:

-- GET /users HTTP/1.1
-- Host: api.geoop.com
local bAutoReconnect = true
success = rest:connect("api.geoop.com", 443, true, bAutoReconnect)
if not success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
rest:set_auth_oauth2(oauth2)

-- Set the X-Version header.
rest:add_header("X-Version", "1.0")

local responseBody = rest:full_request_no_body("GET", "/accounts")
if not rest.last_method_success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- If the response status code did not indicate success, then see what happened..
if rest.response_status_code ~= 200 then
    print("Request Header: ")
    print(rest.last_request_header)
    print("----")
    print("Response StatusCode = " .. rest.response_status_code)
    print("Response StatusLine: " .. rest.response_status_text)
    print("Response Header:")
    print(rest.response_header)
    print(responseBody)
    return
end

local json = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
json.emit_compact = false
json:load(responseBody)
-- Show the full JSON response.  (see the sample response at the bottom of this example)
print(json:emit())

-- To find the account id for a given company name:
local caseSensitive = false
local accountId = json:find_record_string("accounts", "companyName", "Chilkat Software, Inc.", caseSensitive, "id")
if not json.last_method_success then
    print("Account not found.")
else
    print("The account ID is: " .. accountId)
end

-- Find the account ID for the 1st company matching "Chilkat*"
accountId = json:find_record_string("accounts", "companyName", "Chilkat*", caseSensitive, "id")
if not json.last_method_success then
    print("Account not found.")
else
    print("The account ID is: " .. accountId)
end

-- The full JSON response for GET /accounts looks like this:

--     {
--       "result": "success",
--       "accounts": [
--         {
--           "id": 39409,
--           "companyName": "Chilkat Software, Inc.",
--           "licenses": 999,
--           "countryCode": 1
--         }
--       ],
--       "metadata": {
--         "page": 1,
--         "pagesCount": 1,
--         "recordsPerPage": 20,
--         "recordsCount": 1
--       }
--     }
--