New Python Sample App for QuickBooks Online API

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6 responses to “New Python Sample App for QuickBooks Online API”

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   xtiansimon

   April 9, 2017

   Thanks Nikita. I’m looking forward to diving into your sample. Just two questions. Why did you choose Python 2.7? and Your example seems to cover just the AR side, do you plan to make other samples for the rest of the cycle?

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      Nikita

      April 18, 2017

      Hi. A lot of our third party developers code in Python 2.7 which is why I chose it. Right now, this app has very limited functionality as this is supposed to be a starting point for new developers. I will have future releases with additional features though. I do appreciate your feedback.

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   xtiansimon

   April 22, 2017

   > “Right now, this app has very limited functionality as this is supposed to be a starting point for new developers.”

   And as I’m sure you know, the starting points for doing actual business bookkeeping are income and expenses for the purpose of producing the basic financial statements: “Balance Sheet, Income Statements, Statement of Cash Flows…”– literally Text Book. I’m looking forward to when Intuit makes a commitment to help customers make QuickBooks more efficient using Python, rather than these half measures.

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      Nikita

      April 27, 2017

      Hi, this app aims to show how to work with OAuth as a first step along with a few other things. There are plans to add features to it in the future.

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3. 

   Rosie

   May 10, 2018

   Hi–I am using your sample app as a basic framework for an app I am working on. I am having issues retrieving User Profile information.

   def getUserProfile(access_token):
   userinfo_endpoint = discovery_document.userinfo_endpoint
   stdlib.logw(userinfo_endpoint, ‘USER INFO ENDPOINT’)
   stdlib.logw(access_token, “ACCESS TOKEN BEFORE HEADERS”)
   auth_header = ‘Bearer ‘ + access_token
   headers = {‘Accept’ : ‘application/json’, ‘Authorization’ : auth_header} #’accept’ : ‘application/json’
   stdlib.logw(headers, “HEADERS”)
   response = requests.get(userinfo_endpoint, headers=headers)
   status_code = response.status_code
   stdlib.logw(response, ‘RESPONSE FROM USER PROFILE:’)

   return response
   When I print out the response code, I get a 403 error. Could you help?

   Also, in Views, a realmId is always generated when I complete my data authorization, but in the code, it looks like I will never trigger the loop if I have a realmId to make the call to getUserProfile

   def connected(request):
   stdlib.logw(request.session, ‘REQUEST SESSION’)
   access_token = request.session.get(‘accessToken’,None)
   if access_token is None:
   return HttpResponse(‘Your Bearer token has expired, please initiate Sign In With Intuit flow again’)

   refresh_token = request.session.get(‘refreshToken’,None)
   realmId = request.session[‘realmId’]
   stdlib.logw(realmId, ‘REALMID’)

   if realmId is None:
   user_profile_response = services.getUserProfile(access_token)
   user_profile = user_profile_response.json()
   stdlib.logw(user_profile, ‘USER PROFILE’)

   if user_profile_response.status_code >= 400:
   # if call to User Profile Service doesn’t succeed then get a new bearer token from refresh token and try again
   bearer = services.getBearerTokenFromRefreshToken(refresh_token)
   user_profile_response = services.getUserProfile(bearer.accessToken)
   stdlib.logw(user_profile_response, ‘USER PROFILE RESPONSE’)
   updateSession(request,bearer.accessToken,bearer.refreshToken,request.session.get(‘realmId’,None),name=user_profile_response.get(‘givenName’,None))

   if user_profile_response.status_code >= 400:
   return HttpResponseServerError()
   c = {
   ‘first_name’: user_profile_response.get(‘givenName’,’ ‘),
   }
   else:
   if request.session.get(‘name’) is None:
   stdlib.logw(request.session.get(‘name’), ‘REQUEST SESSION’)
   name = ”
   else:
   name = request.session.get(‘name’)
   c = {
   ‘first_name’: name,
   }

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      Rosie

      May 11, 2018

      I didn’t realize that this would be so arduous to read because all of the CRs are removed. I am having problems retrieving the User Profile information so that I can populate the user’s name onto the page. When getUserProfile is called, I am retrieving a 403 error. While I was troubleshooting the problem in both services and views, I notice that the loop in the connected function never triggers calling getUserProfile because I always generate a realID. Let me know if there is a better medium to send you formatted code, e.g. Slack, Intuit support.

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