Rust

QuickBooks - Create an Account

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Demonstrates how to send an JSON request to create a QuickBooks account. Rust

// 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.
let json_token = chilkat::JsonObject::new();
let _ = json_token.load_file("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json").is_ok();

let rest = chilkat::Rest::new();

let b_auto_reconnect = true;
if rest.connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com", 443, true, b_auto_reconnect).is_err() {
    println!("{}", rest.last_error_text());
    return;
}

let sb_auth = chilkat::StringBuilder::new();
let _ = sb_auth.append("Bearer ");
let _ = sb_auth.append(&json_token.string_of("access_token").unwrap_or_default());
rest.set_authorization(&sb_auth.get_as_string().unwrap_or_default());

let json_request = chilkat::JsonObject::new();
let _ = json_request.append_string("AccountType", "Credit Card");
let _ = json_request.append_string("Name", "Banana Republic");
let request_body = json_request.emit().unwrap_or_default();

// "123146096291789" is the company ID.
let sb_path = chilkat::StringBuilder::new();
let _ = sb_path.append("/v3/company/123146096291789/account?minorversion=45");

let _ = rest.add_header("Content-Type", "application/json");
let _ = rest.add_header("Accept", "application/json");
rest.set_allow_header_folding(false);

let Ok(response_body) = rest.full_request_string("POST", &sb_path.get_as_string().unwrap_or_default(), &request_body) else {
    println!("{}", rest.last_error_text());
    return;
};

// We should expect a 200 response if successful.
if rest.response_status_code() != 200 {
    println!("Request Header: ");
    println!("{}", rest.last_request_header());
    println!("----");
    println!("Response StatusCode = {}", rest.response_status_code());
    println!("Response StatusLine: {}", rest.response_status_text());
    println!("Response Header:");
    println!("{}", rest.response_header());
    println!("{}", response_body);
    return;
}

let json_response = chilkat::JsonObject::new();
let _ = json_response.load(&response_body);
json_response.set_emit_compact(false);
println!("{}", json_response.emit().unwrap_or_default());
println!("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"
// }