Fetch online invoice url

[mbarszcz]

Hello there,

Xero has added an online invoice URL to their API:

http://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/invoices/#onlineinvoice

Is there a way to fetch that URL using pyxero?

[aidanlister]

Very interesting! I needed this personally and had to write a streaming server to download it. I'll see if I can get this in soon.

[kapetanos]

As a matter of fact, it is possible to get the online invoice url using the standard invoices.get and appending "/OnlineInvoice" to the invoice guid, e.g. xero.invoices.get('bd709179-ba9b-492b-bd5c-305a31f2e5ca' + '/OnlineInvoice') .

[carter-page]

So is the following the best option to get the url for a recently created invoice? First query for the invoiceID given the invoice number and then use the ID to get the url.

invoiceID = xero.invoices.get('INV-0028')[0]['InvoiceID']
link = xero.invoices.get(invoiceID + '/OnlineInvoice')['OnlineInvoices'][0]['OnlineInvoiceUrl']
print(link)

Is there a better way to figure out the invoiceID (without the first call) so I can do this in one step?

[kapetanos]

As stated in the API documentation only the InvoiceID can be used to retrieve the online invoice url. You could keep the InvoiceNumber and its InvoiceID locally when creating the invoice.

[carter-page]

@kapetanos, could you give an example of how to store those locally when creating the invoice?

[kapetanos]

@carter-page when using put to create an invoice, the created invoice is returned. For example you can create an invoice and get the InvoiceID (invoice_dict is a dictionary with the required fields to create the invoice): invoice_id = xero_inst.invoices.put(invoice_dict)[0]['InvoiceID']

Depending on your application you can save the ids in a database, file, cache etc.

[sandorvasas]

Is there such a feature for viewing contacts? I'd like to open up a window from an external app with the customer displayed in it.

window.open('https://go.xero.com/Contacts/View/<ContactID>')

Responds with 500.