Xbase++ Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

QuickBooks - Read an Employee

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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. Xbase++

LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oJsonToken
LOCAL oRest
LOCAL nBAutoReconnect
LOCAL oSbAuth
LOCAL cResponseBody
LOCAL oJson
LOCAL oDtime
LOCAL nBLocalTime
LOCAL oDt

nSuccess := 0

//  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"
//  }

oJsonToken := CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
nSuccess := oJsonToken:LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json")

oRest := CreateObject("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.
nBAutoReconnect := 1
nSuccess := oRest:Connect("sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com", 443, 1, nBAutoReconnect)
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oRest:LastErrorText
    oJsonToken:destroy()
    oRest:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

oSbAuth := CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
oSbAuth:Append("Bearer ")
oSbAuth:Append(oJsonToken:StringOf("access_token"))
oRest:Authorization := oSbAuth:GetAsString()

oRest:AddHeader("Accept", "application/json")
oRest:AllowHeaderFolding := 0

//  The company ID is 123146096291789
//  The employee ID is 58
cResponseBody := oRest:FullRequestNoBody("GET", "/v3/company/123146096291789/employee/58?minorversion=45")
IF (oRest:LastMethodSuccess == 0)
    ? oRest:LastErrorText
    oJsonToken:destroy()
    oRest:destroy()
    oSbAuth:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  We should expect a 200 response if successful.
IF (oRest:ResponseStatusCode != 200)
    ? "Request Header: "
    ? oRest:LastRequestHeader
    ? "----"
    ? "Response StatusCode = " + Str(oRest:ResponseStatusCode)
    ? "Response StatusLine: " + oRest:ResponseStatusText
    ? "Response Header:"
    ? oRest:ResponseHeader
    ? cResponseBody
    oJsonToken:destroy()
    oRest:destroy()
    oSbAuth:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
//  A sample JSON response is shown below.
oJson := CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
oJson:Load(cResponseBody)

//  These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
oDtime := CreateObject("Chilkat.CkDateTime")

//  Show the JSON.   
oJson:EmitCompact := 0
? oJson:Emit()

//  Get some information from the JSON..
? "Name: " + oJson:StringOf("Employee.DisplayName")
? "Id: " + oJson:StringOf("Employee.Id")
? "City: " + oJson:StringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.City")
? "PostalCode: " + oJson:StringOf("Employee.PrimaryAddr.PostalCode")

//  Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
oDtime:SetFromTimestamp(oJson:StringOf("Employee.MetaData.CreateTime"))
nBLocalTime := 1
oDt := CreateObject("Chilkat.DtObj")
oDtime:ToDtObj(nBLocalTime, oDt)

? Str(oDt:Month) + "/" + Str(oDt:Day) + "/" + Str(oDt:Year) + "  " + Str(oDt:Hour) + ":" + Str(oDt: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"
//  }

oJsonToken:destroy()
oRest:destroy()
oSbAuth:destroy()
oJson:destroy()
oDtime:destroy()
oDt:destroy()