Delphi ActiveX Dynamics CRM: Lookup Account ID using Account Name

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Gets the accountid by name.

Documentation: http://www.odata.org/getting-started/basic-tutorial/#queryData

CURL Command

curl -X GET https://my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/accounts
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "OData-MaxVersion: 4.0"  \
  -H "OData-Version: 4.0" \
  -d "$select=accountid" \
  -d "$filter=name eq 'Blue Yonder Airlines'" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer DYNAMICS_CRM_ACCESS_TOKEN"

Delphi ActiveX Example

var
rest: TChilkatRest;
success: Integer;
bTls: Integer;
port: Integer;
bAutoReconnect: Integer;
sbResponseBody: TChilkatStringBuilder;
respStatusCode: Integer;
jsonResponse: TChilkatJsonObject;
i: Integer;
count_i: Integer;
odataContext: WideString;
odataEtag: WideString;
accountid: WideString;

begin
rest := TChilkatRest.Create(Self);

//  URL: https://my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/accounts
bTls := 1;
port := 443;
bAutoReconnect := 1;
success := rest.Connect('my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com',port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
if (success <> 1) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add('ConnectFailReason: ' + IntToStr(rest.ConnectFailReason));
    Memo1.Lines.Add(rest.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

rest.AddQueryParam('$select','accountid');
rest.AddQueryParam('$filter','name eq ''Blue Yonder Airlines''');

rest.AddHeader('OData-MaxVersion','4.0');
rest.AddHeader('Accept','application/json');
rest.AddHeader('OData-Version','4.0');
rest.AddHeader('Authorization','Bearer DYNAMICS_CRM_ACCESS_TOKEN');

sbResponseBody := TChilkatStringBuilder.Create(Self);
success := rest.FullRequestNoBodySb('GET','/api/data/v9.0/accounts',sbResponseBody.ControlInterface);
if (success <> 1) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(rest.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;
respStatusCode := rest.ResponseStatusCode;
if (respStatusCode >= 400) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add('Response Status Code = ' + IntToStr(respStatusCode));
    Memo1.Lines.Add('Response Header:');
    Memo1.Lines.Add(rest.ResponseHeader);
    Memo1.Lines.Add('Response Body:');
    Memo1.Lines.Add(sbResponseBody.GetAsString());
    Exit;
  end;

jsonResponse := TChilkatJsonObject.Create(Self);
jsonResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody.ControlInterface);

odataContext := jsonResponse.StringOf('"@odata.context"');
i := 0;
count_i := jsonResponse.SizeOfArray('value');
while i < count_i do
  begin
    jsonResponse.I := i;
    odataEtag := jsonResponse.StringOf('value[i]."@odata.etag"');
    accountid := jsonResponse.StringOf('value[i].accountid');
    i := i + 1;
  end;

Sample JSON Response Body

{
  "@odata.context": "https://mydomain.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/$metadata#accounts(accountid)",
  "value": [
    {
      "@odata.etag": "W/\"1817216\"",
      "accountid": "aca19cdd-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200"
    }
  ]
}