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gistfile1.txt

#We will declare Variable that will change often up at the top 
#This is a common practice for scripts. 
#Later we will convert this to a function, and these will become parameters
$AcumaticaUser      = "Admin"
$AcumaticaPassword  = "123"
$AcumaticaTenant    = "Company"
$AcumaticaEndPoint  = "http://localhost/APS20_104_0012"
$ReferenceNbr       = "AR008403"
 
$WebSession = New-Object Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WebRequestSession
$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]"
$headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
 
#All we must do to format a string with variables is add the variable to the string. 
#the ` grave char escapes so the `n are carriage returns.
           
$body = "{`n `"name`":`"$AcumaticaUser`",`n   	`"password`":`"$AcumaticaPassword`",`n   	`"tenant`":`"$AcumaticaTenant`"`n}"
$Uri  = "$AcumaticaEndPoint/entity/auth/login"
$response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $Uri -Method 'POST' -Headers $headers -Body $body -WebSession $WebSession
 
 
#if you need to get the $ char into the string you can use `$ which will get it into place as we did here
# We also need to use the `' to get the single quote into the string
$Uri = "$AcumaticaEndPoint/entity/default/18.200.001/Invoice?`$Filter=ReferenceNbr eq `'$ReferenceNbr`'"


#Note: Post man incorrectly sets the -Body $body parameter. It needs to be removed for this to work with a get
$response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $Uri -Method 'GET' -Headers $headers -WebSession $WebSession


#Piping the response to the ConvertTo-Json method will format the value and 
#display to the output window 
$response | ConvertTo-Json
 
$Uri = "$AcumaticaEndPoint/entity/auth/logout"
$response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $Uri -Method 'POST' -Headers $headers -Body $body -WebSession $WebSession