(PowerShell) QuickBooks - Read an Employee

Demonstrates how to fetch the information for a specific Quickbooks employee. The employee information is fetched by Id. The employee Ids can be obtained by querying the employees and parsing the JSON that is returned.

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[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\myAssemblies\ChilkatDotNet47.dll")

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

# This example also assumes an OAuth1 access token was previously fetched.
# and saved in a JSON file.  See the Chilkat online examples at example-code.com
# for Quickbooks OAuth1 examples (in the Quickbooks and OAuth1 categories)
# 

# First get our previously obtained access token.
$jsonToken = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$success = $jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/quickbooks.json")

$oauth1 = New-Object Chilkat.OAuth1
$oauth1.ConsumerKey = "QUICKBOOKS_CONSUMER_KEY"
$oauth1.ConsumerSecret = "QUICKBOOKS_CONSUMER_SECRET"
$oauth1.Token = $jsonToken.StringOf("oauth_token")
$oauth1.TokenSecret = $jsonToken.StringOf("oauth_token_secret")

$rest = New-Object Chilkat.Rest

# Connect using TLS.
# A single REST object, once connected, can be used for many Quickbooks 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.
$bAutoReconnect = $true
$success = $rest.Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com",443,$true,$bAutoReconnect)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$rest.SetAuthOAuth1($oauth1,$false)

# The company ID is the realmId
$sbPath = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$sbPath.Append("/v3/company/<companyID>/employee/<employeeID>")
$numReplacements = $sbPath.Replace("<companyID>",$jsonToken.StringOf("realmId"))
# Assume we already know that we want to read the employee whose Id = 60.
$numReplacements = $sbPath.Replace("<employeeID>","60")

$rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
$rest.AllowHeaderFolding = $false

$responseBody = $rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET",$sbPath.GetAsString())
if ($rest.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# We should expect a 200 response if successful.
if ($rest.ResponseStatusCode -ne 200) {
    $("Request Header: ")
    $($rest.LastRequestHeader)
    $("----")
    $("Response StatusCode = " + $rest.ResponseStatusCode)
    $("Response StatusLine: " + $rest.ResponseStatusText)
    $("Response Header:")
    $($rest.ResponseHeader)
    $($responseBody)
    exit
}

# Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
# A sample JSON response is shown below.
$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json.Load($responseBody)

# These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
$dtime = New-Object Chilkat.CkDateTime
$bLocalTime = $true

# Show the JSON.   
$json.EmitCompact = $false
$($json.Emit())

# Get some information from the JSON..
$("Name: " + $json.StringOf("Employee.DisplayName"))
$("Id: " + $json.StringOf("Employee.Id"))
$("City: " + $json.StringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.City"))
$("PostalCode: " + $json.StringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.PostalCode"))

# Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
$dtime.SetFromTimestamp($json.StringOf("Employee.MetaData.CreateTime"))
$dt = $dtime.GetDtObj($bLocalTime)
$([string]$dt.Month + "/" + $dt.Day + "/" + $dt.Year + "  " + $dt.Hour + ":" + $dt.Minute)

$("Success.")

# ------------------------------------------------------
# The JSON response looks like this:

# {
#   "Employee": {
#     "SSN": "XXX-XX-XXXX",
#     "PrimaryAddr": {
#       "Id": "116",
#       "Line1": "45 N. Elm Street",
#       "City": "Middlefield",
#       "CountrySubDivisionCode": "CA",
#       "PostalCode": "93242"
#     },
#     "BillableTime": false,
#     "domain": "QBO",
#     "sparse": false,
#     "Id": "98",
#     "SyncToken": "0",
#     "MetaData": {
#       "CreateTime": "2015-07-24T09:34:35-07:00",
#       "LastUpdatedTime": "2015-07-24T09:34:35-07:00"
#     },
#     "GivenName": "Bill",
#     "FamilyName": "Miller",
#     "DisplayName": "Bill Miller",
#     "PrintOnCheckName": "Bill Miller",
#     "Active": true,
#     "PrimaryPhone": {
#       "FreeFormNumber": "234-525-1234"
#     }
#   },
#   "time": "2015-07-24T09:35:54.805-07:00"
#