Visual FoxPro Dynamics CRM: Lookup Contact ID using Full Name

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Find a contactid given a fullname.

Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/web-api/contact?view=dynamics-ce-odata-9

CURL Command

curl -X GET https://my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/contacts
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "OData-MaxVersion: 4.0"  \
  -H "OData-Version: 4.0" \
  -d "$select=contactid" \
  -d "$filter=fullname eq 'Tomasz Bochenek'" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer DYNAMICS_CRM_ACCESS_TOKEN"

Visual FoxPro Example

LOCAL loRest
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lnBTls
LOCAL lnPort
LOCAL lnBAutoReconnect
LOCAL loSbResponseBody
LOCAL lnRespStatusCode
LOCAL loJsonResponse
LOCAL i
LOCAL lnCount_i
LOCAL lcOdataContext
LOCAL lcOdataEtag
LOCAL lcContactid

loRest = CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.Rest')

*  URL: https://my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/contacts
lnBTls = 1
lnPort = 443
lnBAutoReconnect = 1
lnSuccess = loRest.Connect("my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com",lnPort,lnBTls,lnBAutoReconnect)
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? "ConnectFailReason: " + STR(loRest.ConnectFailReason)
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loRest
    CANCEL
ENDIF

loRest.AddQueryParam("$select","contactid")
loRest.AddQueryParam("$filter","fullname eq 'Tomasz Bochenek'")

loRest.AddHeader("OData-MaxVersion","4.0")
loRest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
loRest.AddHeader("OData-Version","4.0")
loRest.AddHeader("Authorization","Bearer DYNAMICS_CRM_ACCESS_TOKEN")

loSbResponseBody = CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder')
lnSuccess = loRest.FullRequestNoBodySb("GET","/api/data/v9.0/contacts",loSbResponseBody)
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loRest
    RELEASE loSbResponseBody
    CANCEL
ENDIF

lnRespStatusCode = loRest.ResponseStatusCode
IF (lnRespStatusCode >= 400) THEN
    ? "Response Status Code = " + STR(lnRespStatusCode)
    ? "Response Header:"
    ? loRest.ResponseHeader
    ? "Response Body:"
    ? loSbResponseBody.GetAsString()
    RELEASE loRest
    RELEASE loSbResponseBody
    CANCEL
ENDIF

loJsonResponse = CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject')
loJsonResponse.LoadSb(loSbResponseBody)

lcOdataContext = loJsonResponse.StringOf('"@odata.context"')
i = 0
lnCount_i = loJsonResponse.SizeOfArray("value")
DO WHILE i < lnCount_i
    loJsonResponse.I = i
    lcOdataEtag = loJsonResponse.StringOf('value[i]."@odata.etag"')
    lcContactid = loJsonResponse.StringOf("value[i].contactid")
    i = i + 1
ENDDO

RELEASE loRest
RELEASE loSbResponseBody
RELEASE loJsonResponse

Sample JSON Response Body

{
  "@odata.context": "https://mydomain.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/$metadata#contacts(contactid)",
  "value": [
    {
      "@odata.etag": "W/\"1162210\"",
      "contactid": "1fa1e5b9-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200"
    }
  ]
}