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Update data ext

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Use your app's API key as the username, and leave the password blank

Headers

Idempotency-Key
string

Makes a retry safe when you never got the answer to a call: a timeout, a dropped connection, a worker that crashed. Send a new key (a UUID, say) with each request you mean to make once, and the same key when you send that request again. A repeat with the key and the same method, path, query and body answers 201 with what the first call created, as it is now, marked Idempotent-Replayed: true, and queues nothing. The same key with a different request is a 422. A key belongs to your app (sandbox and production apps never share one), lasts as long as what it created, and is 1 to 255 printable ASCII characters.

Required string length: 1 - 255
Pattern: ^[\x20-\x7E]+$

Path Parameters

connection_id
string<uuid>
required

The connection (a customer's QuickBooks company file) this request is queued for.

Query Parameters

webhook_url
string<uri>

Where QuBe Sync POSTs the answered request (this same document with response_json filled in), signed with X-QUBE-Signature. Send one with every request: it is how answers are delivered. Optional only so a script can queue and look up links.self by hand. It must be an absolute http or https URL. It may not contain a username or password, and in production it may not point at localhost or a private, loopback or link-local address. A qube listen URL must be one of this app's.

Maximum string length: 2048

Body

application/json
data_ext_name
string
required

The name of the data extension. If this is a custom field, data_ext_name will be visible as a label in the QuickBooks user interface. Also because owner_id and data_ext_name together make the data extension unique, and because custom fields all have the same owner_id of zero, the data_ext_name must be a unique value among existing custom fields.

data_ext_value
string
required

The data in this field. The maximum length of data_ext_value will depend on the data_ext_type of this data extension. For example, if data_ext_type is STR255TYPE, the maximum length of data_ext_value is 255 characters. If data_ext_type is STR1024TYPE, the maximum size of data_ext_value is 1KB.

owner_id
string
required

owner_id identifies who owns the data extension. Use 0 for QuickBooks custom fields that appear in the UI, or use a GUID for private extensions owned by an app. Keep private GUIDs confidential unless you intentionally share extensions across apps. If you do share them, both apps must use the same owner_id and data_ext_name, because that pair uniquely identifies the extension.

list_data_ext_type
enum<string>

The type of list object (e.g. Customer) that this data extension is attached to.

Available options:
Account,
Customer,
Employee,
Item,
OtherName,
Vendor
list_obj_ref
object

Refers to a list object. In a DataExtAdd request, the list object ref must be the same type as the type specified in list_data_ext_type. If a list_obj_ref aggregate includes both full_name and list_id, full_name will be ignored.

request_id
string

Your own label for the request, sent to QuickBooks as its qbXML requestID and echoed in the raw answer (response_xml); optional, since the answer's webhook already carries the request's id.

Callbacks

POST
{$request.query.webhook_url}answered

Body

application/json

POSTed to webhook_url as JSON, signed with X-QUBE-Signature (t=<timestamp>,v1=<hex HMAC-SHA256 of "<timestamp>.<raw body>" with your app's webhook secret>).

app_id
string<uuid>
required

Your app's id.

app_name
string
required
error
object | null
required

Set when state is error, retryable, timed_out or discarded. error_type says where it failed: for a timed_out request it is timed_out, and for a discarded one discarded, unless the request was retryable when your app discarded it, which keeps the connection error that held it up. user_message is safe to show an end user; error_code is QuickBooks' own status code for a business error, hresult the Web Connector's for a connection/XML error; debug_message is for you.

id
string<uuid>
required

The request's id, as the 201 returned it. For an iterated query, every page carries the first page's id here.

page_request_id
string<uuid>
required

This page's own id. Equal to id except on later pages of an iterated query.

response_json
Success · object
required

QuBe Sync's summary of QuickBooks' answer. Only an Error severity from QuickBooks is status: "error" (and makes the request's state error), so a query that matched nothing is still success. A Warn severity is a success with warning beside it.

sandbox
boolean
required

Whether the app is a sandbox app.

state
enum<string>
required

response_received: QuickBooks accepted it; read response_json. error: it is over and QuBe Sync won't try again -- see error, and response_json.error for a QuickBooks business error; with error_type outcome_unknown a write may still have been applied, so look before sending it again. retryable: QuickBooks could not be reached and QuBe Sync keeps trying; show the customer error.user_message so they can fix it. timed_out: no answer came back -- the customer's computer lost its connection, or QuickBooks or the Web Connector was closed, mid-request. QuickBooks may still have applied it, so look before sending it again. discarded: your app discarded it before the Web Connector picked it up, so QuickBooks never got it. Both carry an error.

Available options:
response_received,
error,
retryable,
timed_out,
discarded
timestamp
integer
required

Unix seconds; the same t the signature covers.

iteration_state
enum<string>

continue: more pages will follow, each its own webhook. done: this was the last page. max_sandbox_iterations_reached: a sandbox app's page limit stopped the iteration.

Available options:
not_applicable,
continue,
done,
max_sandbox_iterations_reached

Present only with response_xml_omitted.

page
integer | null

The page number, when iterated.

response_xml
string | null

QuickBooks' raw qbXML answer. response_json is the same, summarized. One answer can be at most 4 MB as the Web Connector sends it, about 3 MB of qbXML; QuickBooks' answer over that isn't kept: this is null and error.error_type is response_too_large. A webhook whose body would be over 1 MB is sent without it: null, with response_xml_omitted true; fetch it from links.self.

response_xml_omitted
boolean

Present, and true, only when response_xml was left out to keep the body under 1 MB. response_json is still here; GET links.self for response_xml.

Response

2XX

Received. Anything else is retried with backoff for about 8 hours.

Response

Queued for the connection's Web Connector. Pass webhook_url and QuBe Sync POSTs the answer to it once QuickBooks has answered (see the answered callback: its own payload, not this document). links.self returns this document on demand, with response_json filled in.

data
object
required