autoit / New FreshBooks / Create Custom Expense Category
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; This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
; See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
$oHttp = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Http")
Local $bSuccess
; Use this online tool to generate code from sample JSON: Generate Code to Create JSON
; The following JSON is sent in the request body.
; {
; "category": {
; "category": "catstuff2",
; "is_cogs": false,
; "is_editable": true,
; "parentid": 123,
; "subcategories": [
; ]
; }
; }
$oJson = ObjCreate("Chilkat.JsonObject")
$oJson.UpdateString("category.category","catstuff2")
$oJson.UpdateBool("category.is_cogs",False)
$oJson.UpdateBool("category.is_editable",True)
$oJson.UpdateInt("category.parentid",123)
$oJson.UpdateNewArray("category.subcategories")
; Adds the "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>" header.
$oHttp.AuthToken = "<access_token>"
$oHttp.SetRequestHeader "Content-Type","application/json"
Local $oResp = $oHttp.PostJson3("https://api.freshbooks.com/accounting/account/{{accountId}}/expenses/categories","application/json",$oJson)
If ($oHttp.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
ConsoleWrite($oHttp.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
Exit
EndIf
$oSbResponseBody = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
$oResp.GetBodySb($oSbResponseBody)
$oJResp = ObjCreate("Chilkat.JsonObject")
$oJResp.LoadSb($oSbResponseBody)
$oJResp.EmitCompact = False
ConsoleWrite("Response Body:" & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite($oJResp.Emit() & @CRLF)
Local $iRespStatusCode = $oResp.StatusCode
ConsoleWrite("Response Status Code = " & $iRespStatusCode & @CRLF)
If ($iRespStatusCode >= 400) Then
ConsoleWrite("Response Header:" & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite($oResp.Header & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("Failed." & @CRLF)
Exit
EndIf
; Sample JSON response:
; (Sample code for parsing the JSON response is shown below)
; {
; "response": {
; "result": {
; "category": {
; "category": "catstuff",
; "categoryid": 5503992,
; "created_at": "2019-05-17 09:23:19",
; "id": 5503992,
; "is_cogs": false,
; "is_editable": true,
; "parentid": 2003142,
; "updated_at": "2019-05-17 09:23:19",
; "vis_state": 0
; }
; }
; }
; }
; Sample code for parsing the JSON response...
; Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: Generate JSON Parsing Code
Local $sCategory = $oJResp.StringOf("response.result.category.category")
Local $iCategoryid = $oJResp.IntOf("response.result.category.categoryid")
Local $sCreated_at = $oJResp.StringOf("response.result.category.created_at")
Local $iId = $oJResp.IntOf("response.result.category.id")
Local $bIs_cogs = $oJResp.BoolOf("response.result.category.is_cogs")
Local $bIs_editable = $oJResp.BoolOf("response.result.category.is_editable")
Local $iParentid = $oJResp.IntOf("response.result.category.parentid")
Local $sUpdated_at = $oJResp.StringOf("response.result.category.updated_at")
Local $iVis_state = $oJResp.IntOf("response.result.category.vis_state")
Curl Command
curl -X POST
-H "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-d '{
"category": {
"category": "catstuff2",
"is_cogs": false,
"is_editable": true,
"parentid": {{parentCategoryId}},
"subcategories": []
}
}'
https://api.freshbooks.com/accounting/account/{{accountId}}/expenses/categories
Postman Collection Item JSON
{
"name": "Create Custom Expense Category",
"request": {
"method": "POST",
"header": [
{
"key": "Content-Type",
"name": "Content-Type",
"value": "application/json",
"type": "text"
}
],
"body": {
"mode": "raw",
"raw": "{\n \"category\": {\n \"category\": \"catstuff2\",\n \"is_cogs\": false,\n \"is_editable\": true,\n \"parentid\": {{parentCategoryId}},\n \"subcategories\": []\n }\n}"
},
"url": {
"raw": "https://api.freshbooks.com/accounting/account/{{accountId}}/expenses/categories",
"protocol": "https",
"host": [
"api",
"freshbooks",
"com"
],
"path": [
"accounting",
"account",
"{{accountId}}",
"expenses",
"categories"
]
},
"description": "Custome expense categories require a parent category ID. Please make a call to list expense categories to find the parent ID you'd like."
},
"response": [
{
"name": "Create Custom Expense Category",
"originalRequest": {
"method": "POST",
"header": [
{
"key": "Content-Type",
"name": "Content-Type",
"value": "application/json",
"type": "text"
}
],
"body": {
"mode": "raw",
"raw": "{\n \"category\": {\n \"category\": \"catstuff2\",\n \"is_cogs\": false,\n \"is_editable\": true,\n \"parentid\": {{parentCategoryId}},\n \"subcategories\": []\n }\n}"
},
"url": {
"raw": "https://api.freshbooks.com/accounting/account/{{accountId}}/expenses/categories",
"protocol": "https",
"host": [
"api",
"freshbooks",
"com"
],
"path": [
"accounting",
"account",
"{{accountId}}",
"expenses",
"categories"
]
}
},
"status": "OK",
"code": 200,
"_postman_previewlanguage": "json",
"header": [
{
"key": "Server",
"value": "nginx"
},
{
"key": "Content-Type",
"value": "application/json"
},
{
"key": "X-NewRelic-App-Data",
"value": "PxQBWV5TCBABVlVSAwEOVlcTGhE1AwE2QgNWEVlbQFtcCxYnRA9QFg1ZWU4DFVdfRgFPCkNFR0gBSUZWDBUGEQoBWRZdX1tAWgBKQx1RH1JKBg5XUFoJBQBcVVAPCAJTVAkaAlVUT0BSUwkADltXBQoEDwdQUlVVRhpRAAoQXW4="
},
{
"key": "X-RateLimit-Limit",
"value": "20"
},
{
"key": "X-RateLimit-Remaining",
"value": "0"
},
{
"key": "X-RateLimit-Reset",
"value": "1558099457"
},
{
"key": "Retry-After",
"value": "57"
},
{
"key": "Access-Control-Allow-Origin",
"value": "*"
},
{
"key": "Expires",
"value": "Thu, 17 May 2018 13:23:19 GMT"
},
{
"key": "Cache-Control",
"value": "no-cache"
},
{
"key": "Content-Encoding",
"value": "gzip"
},
{
"key": "Via",
"value": "1.1 google"
},
{
"key": "Via",
"value": "1.1 varnish"
},
{
"key": "Transfer-Encoding",
"value": "chunked"
},
{
"key": "Accept-Ranges",
"value": "bytes"
},
{
"key": "Date",
"value": "Fri, 17 May 2019 13:23:19 GMT"
},
{
"key": "Connection",
"value": "keep-alive"
},
{
"key": "X-Served-By",
"value": "cache-mdw17335-MDW"
},
{
"key": "X-Cache",
"value": "MISS"
},
{
"key": "X-Cache-Hits",
"value": "0"
},
{
"key": "Vary",
"value": "Accept-Encoding"
},
{
"key": "Country",
"value": "CA"
},
{
"key": "Strict-Transport-Security",
"value": "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"
}
],
"cookie": [
],
"body": "{\n \"response\": {\n \"result\": {\n \"category\": {\n \"category\": \"catstuff\",\n \"categoryid\": 5503992,\n \"created_at\": \"2019-05-17 09:23:19\",\n \"id\": 5503992,\n \"is_cogs\": false,\n \"is_editable\": true,\n \"parentid\": 2003142,\n \"updated_at\": \"2019-05-17 09:23:19\",\n \"vis_state\": 0\n }\n }\n }\n}"
}
]
}
