So, for the Intuit IPP Rest API,
Say if i want to query a customer who's name is ABC, i can use a http get request like this
https://qb.sbfinance.intuit.com/v3/company/198445012/query?query=select Id from Customer where FullyQualifiedName%3D'ABC'
&3D is a url escape of '=', this works without any problem.
Now if the customer's name is A&B, I tried the query string like this
select Id from Customer where FullyQualifiedName='A&B'
After the url encoding, it looks like this
https://qb.sbfinance.intuit.com/v3/company/198445012/query?query=select Id from Customer where FullyQualifiedName%3D'A%26B'
It will fail.
Any Idea?
Update
The above urls i copied from the IPP's API explorer.
Here is the code, I am using DevDefined.OAuth
IConsumerRequest conReq = _oSession.Request();
conReq = conReq.Get();
conReq.AcceptsType = "application/xml";
//conReq = conReq.ForUrl(string.Format(@"https://qb.sbfinance.intuit.com/v3/company/{0}/query?query={1}", Settings.Default.QuickBooksOnlineRealmId, @"select * from Customer where DisplayName='ABC'")); if use this line, it works fine
conReq = conReq.ForUrl(string.Format(@"https://qb.sbfinance.intuit.com/v3/company/{0}/query?query={1}", Settings.Default.QuickBooksOnlineRealmId, @"select * from Customer where DisplayName='A&B'"));
try
{
string str = conReq.ReadBody();
catch (Exception ex)
{
//ex.Message
}
the returned xml data like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<IntuitResponse xmlns="http://schema.intuit.com/finance/v3" time="2014-03-20T06:24:12.408-07:00">
<Fault type="ValidationFault">
<Error code="4000">
<Message>Error parsing query</Message>
<Detail>QueryParserError: Invalid content. Lexical error at line 1, column 44. Encountered: <EOF> after : "\'A"</Detail>
</Error>
</Fault>
</IntuitResponse>
I am not 100% sure, yesterday when i test, it actually return something says the oauth failed. But this is what I got this morning.
Actually, you can try it within IPP's API explorer, it gives the same result.
The devdefined's code for ForUrl
public static IConsumerRequest ForUrl(this IConsumerRequest request, string url)
{
request.Context.RawUri = new Uri(url);
return request;
}
That will encode the url as
https://qb.sbfinance.intuit.com/v3/company/1122502005/query?query=select%20*%20from%20Customer%20where%20DisplayName='A&B'
Ok, finally, found the issue:
The real issue is Uri(url) won't escape the & in 'A&B' because it doesn't know if it is a url & or part of the data, So i changed the following line
conReq = conReq.ForUrl(string.Format(@"https://qb.sbfinance.intuit.com/v3/company/{0}/query?query={1}", Settings.Default.QuickBooksOnlineRealmId, @"select * from Customer where DisplayName='A&B'"));
as
conReq = conReq.ForUrl(string.Format(@"https://qb.sbfinance.intuit.com/v3/company/{0}/query?query={1}", Settings.Default.QuickBooksOnlineRealmId, Uri.EscapeDataString(@"select * from Customer where DisplayName='A&B'")));
use Uri.EscapeDataString to escape the data query string first.