Objective-C

QuickBooks - Create an Account

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Demonstrates how to send an JSON request to create a QuickBooks account. Objective-C

#import <CkoJsonObject.h>
#import <CkoRest.h>
#import <CkoStringBuilder.h>
#import <NSString.h>

BOOL success = NO;

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

//  First get our previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
CkoJsonObject *jsonToken = [[CkoJsonObject alloc] init];
success = [jsonToken LoadFile: @"qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json"];

CkoRest *rest = [[CkoRest alloc] init];

BOOL bAutoReconnect = YES;
success = [rest Connect: @"sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com" port: [NSNumber numberWithInt: 443] tls: YES autoReconnect: bAutoReconnect];
if (success != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

CkoStringBuilder *sbAuth = [[CkoStringBuilder alloc] init];
[sbAuth Append: @"Bearer "];
[sbAuth Append: [jsonToken StringOf: @"access_token"]];
rest.Authorization = [sbAuth GetAsString];

CkoJsonObject *jsonRequest = [[CkoJsonObject alloc] init];
[jsonRequest AppendString: @"AccountType" value: @"Credit Card"];
[jsonRequest AppendString: @"Name" value: @"Banana Republic"];
NSString *requestBody = [jsonRequest Emit];

//  "123146096291789" is the company ID.
CkoStringBuilder *sbPath = [[CkoStringBuilder alloc] init];
[sbPath Append: @"/v3/company/123146096291789/account?minorversion=45"];

[rest AddHeader: @"Content-Type" value: @"application/json"];
[rest AddHeader: @"Accept" value: @"application/json"];
rest.AllowHeaderFolding = NO;

NSString *responseBody = [rest FullRequestString: @"POST" uriPath: [sbPath GetAsString] bodyText: requestBody];
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  We should expect a 200 response if successful.
if ([rest.ResponseStatusCode intValue] != 200) {
    NSLog(@"%@",@"Request Header: ");
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.LastRequestHeader);
    NSLog(@"%@",@"----");
    NSLog(@"%@%d",@"Response StatusCode = ",[rest.ResponseStatusCode intValue]);
    NSLog(@"%@%@",@"Response StatusLine: ",rest.ResponseStatusText);
    NSLog(@"%@",@"Response Header:");
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.ResponseHeader);
    NSLog(@"%@",responseBody);
    return;
}

CkoJsonObject *jsonResponse = [[CkoJsonObject alloc] init];
[jsonResponse Load: responseBody];
jsonResponse.EmitCompact = NO;
NSLog(@"%@",[jsonResponse Emit]);
NSLog(@"%@",@"Success.");

//  A sample JSON response:

//  Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
//  Generate Parsing Code from JSON

//  {
//    "Account": {
//      "Name": "Banana Republic",
//      "SubAccount": false,
//      "FullyQualifiedName": "Banana Republic",
//      "Active": true,
//      "Classification": "Liability",
//      "AccountType": "Credit Card",
//      "AccountSubType": "CreditCard",
//      "CurrentBalance": 0,
//      "CurrentBalanceWithSubAccounts": 0,
//      "CurrencyRef": {
//        "value": "USD",
//        "name": "United States Dollar"
//      },
//      "domain": "QBO",
//      "sparse": false,
//      "Id": "97",
//      "SyncToken": "0",
//      "MetaData": {
//        "CreateTime": "2016-10-25T05:07:12-07:00",
//        "LastUpdatedTime": "2016-10-25T05:07:12-07:00"
//      }
//    },
//    "time": "2016-10-25T05:07:11.714-07:00"
//  }