(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.

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

For more information, see https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/all-entities/employee#read-an-employee

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

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

# Get our previously obtained OAuth2 access token, which should contain JSON like this:
# {
#   "expires_in": 3600,
#   "x_refresh_token_expires_in": 8726400,
#   "refresh_token": "L011546037639r ... 3vR2DrbOmg0Sdagw",
#   "access_token": "eyJlbmMiOiJBMTI4Q0 ... oETJEMbeggg",
#   "token_type": "bearer"
# }

$jsonToken = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$success = $jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json")

$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 -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$sbAuth = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$sbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
$sbAuth.Append($jsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))
$rest.Authorization = $sbAuth.GetAsString()

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

# The company ID is 123146096291789
# The employee ID is 58
$responseBody = $rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v3/company/123146096291789/employee/58?minorversion=45")
if ($rest.LastMethodSuccess -eq $false) {
    $($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

# 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"))
$bLocalTime = $true
$dt = New-Object Chilkat.DtObj
$dtime.ToDtObj($bLocalTime,$dt)

$([string]$dt.Month + "/" + $dt.Day + "/" + $dt.Year + "  " + $dt.Hour + ":" + $dt.Minute)

$("Success.")

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

# ------------------------------------------------------
# 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"
#