Reckon One API v2

API change history

This is version 2 of the Reckon One API.

Gets details of the specified book.

Get details of a book.

GET /books/485b8019-27ef-47b4-92c4-a360994f0f98


Get just the required fields, e.g. id and name. Find out more about selecting.

GET /books/485b8019-27ef-47b4-92c4-a360994f0f98?select=id,name

Try it

Request

Request URL

Request parameters

  • string

    Format - guid. The book's id.

Request headers

  • string
    Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile.

Request body

Responses

200 OK

Details of the book.

Representations

{
  "id": "5c933c97-e9bf-427c-a2b5-a4ddd539d575",
  "name": "My book",
  "status": "Active",
  "ownership": "Owned",
  "country": "AU",
  "bookCreated": true,
  "ownedAsPartner": true,
  "hasRoleAssigned": true,
  "isTrial": true,
  "products": [
    {
      "id": "7445ce22-d894-4fe4-88ee-ed96862939ca",
      "name": "InvoicingMedium",
      "portalProductId": "CICL0UD1M"
    }
  ]
}
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The book's id.",
      "format": "guid",
      "example": "5c933c97-e9bf-427c-a2b5-a4ddd539d575"
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The book's name.",
      "example": "My book"
    },
    "status": {
      "oneOf": [
        {
          "enum": [
            "Active",
            "Inactive"
          ],
          "type": "string",
          "description": "A book's status.",
          "x-enumNames": [
            "Active",
            "Inactive"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "description": "The book's status.",
      "example": "Active"
    },
    "ownership": {
      "oneOf": [
        {
          "enum": [
            "Owned",
            "Shared",
            "Partner"
          ],
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Book ownership.",
          "x-enumNames": [
            "Owned",
            "Shared",
            "Partner"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "description": "Who owns the book.",
      "example": "Owned"
    },
    "country": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The book's country code.",
      "example": "AU"
    },
    "bookCreated": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether book creation has been completed.",
      "example": true
    },
    "ownedAsPartner": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether book is owned by partner.",
      "example": true
    },
    "hasRoleAssigned": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether the user has any role assigned to the book.",
      "example": true
    },
    "isTrial": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether the book is using the trial subscription.",
      "example": true
    },
    "products": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The products's id.",
            "format": "guid",
            "example": "7445ce22-d894-4fe4-88ee-ed96862939ca"
          },
          "name": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The product's name.",
            "example": "InvoicingMedium"
          },
          "portalProductId": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The Portal's product id.",
            "example": "CICL0UD1M"
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": false,
        "description": "Details of a book product."
      },
      "description": "The products that are currently licensed.",
      "nullable": true
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "description": "Details of a book."
}

401 Unauthorized

The authentication token is missing, expired or invalid.

Representations

{
  "message": "Authorization has been denied for this request.",
  "code": 401
}
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "message": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The description of the error.",
      "nullable": true,
      "example": "Authorization has been denied for this request."
    },
    "code": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "The HTTP status code of the error.",
      "format": "int32",
      "example": 401
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "description": "Response sent when a 401 Unauthorized error occurs."
}

404 Not Found

Book was not found.

Representations

{
  "message": "Resource not found.",
  "code": 404
}
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "message": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The description of the error.",
      "nullable": true,
      "example": "Resource not found."
    },
    "code": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "The HTTP status code of the error.",
      "format": "int32",
      "example": 404
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "description": "Response sent when a 404 Forbidden error occurs."
}

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X GET "https://api.reckon.com/r1/v2/books/{bookId}"
-H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"

--data-ascii "{body}" 
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
        
        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            // Request headers
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");

            var uri = "https://api.reckon.com/r1/v2/books/{bookId}?" + queryString;

            var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
        }
    }
}	
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.reckon.com/r1/v2/books/{bookId}");


            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
            request.setHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");


            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            // Request parameters
        };
      
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://api.reckon.com/r1/v2/books/{bookId}?" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
            },
            type: "GET",
            // Request body
            data: "{body}",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
    NSString* path = @"https://api.reckon.com/r1/v2/books/{bookId}";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"];
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.reckon.com/r1/v2/books/{bookId}');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.reckon.com')
    conn.request("GET", "/r1/v2/books/{bookId}?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.reckon.com')
    conn.request("GET", "/r1/v2/books/{bookId}?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################
require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://api.reckon.com/r1/v2/books/{bookId}')

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body