React API call, render data with QuickBase's new RESTful API

Question

I'm trying to figure out what i'm doing wrong here... I've been out of coding for awhile and trying to jump back in for an external application utilizing QuickBase's RESTful API. I'm simply trying to get data from QuickBase to be used outside in an external app to create charts/graphs.

I'm not able to use GET as it gives me only the field names and no data, if I use POST, then I get the values of these fields as well. I'm able to get all the data rendered in the console, but am struggling to get each field rendered to be used in the app.

let headers = {
  'QB-Realm-Hostname': 'XXXXXXXXXXXXX.quickbase.com',
  'User-Agent': 'FileService_Integration_V2.1',
  'Authorization': 'QB-USER-TOKEN XXXXXX_XXXXX_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
let body = {"from":"bpz99ram7","select":[3,6,80,81,82,83,86,84,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,101,103,104,105,106,107,109,111,113,115,120,123,224,225,226,227,228,229,230,231,477,479,480,481],"sortBy":[{"fieldId":6,"order":"ASC"}],"groupBy":[{"fieldId":40,"grouping":"equal-values"}],"options":{"skip":0,"top":0,"compareWithAppLocalTime":false}}

fetch('https://api.quickbase.com/v1/records/query',
  {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: headers,
    body: JSON.stringify(body)
  })
  
.then(res => {
  if (res.ok) {
    return res.json().then(res => console.log(res));
  }

return res.json().then(resBody => Promise.reject({status: res.status, ...resBody}));
})

.catch(err => console.log(err))

Hoping to get some help getting the data rendered to be used in React, as well as any tips from anyone who's used QuickBase's new API calls in their realm! And I apologize if it's an easy question/issue, haven't been in React for a couple years... and I'm feeling it!

Thanks!

Answer 1

A successful response from Quickbase for this call has a property data which is an array of the records returned. Each element of this array is an object where the FID for each field returned is a key for nested object - or objects for some field types - with the field's value. Here's a very contrived example:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "1": {
        "value": "2020-10-24T23:22:39Z"
      },
      "2": {
        "value": "2020-10-24T23:22:39Z"
      },
      "3": {
        "value": 2643415
      }
    }
  ],
  "fields": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "label": "Date Created",
      "type": "timestamp"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "label": "Date Modified",
      "type": "timestamp"
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "label": "Record ID#",
      "type": "recordid"
    }
  ]
}

If you put the data array of the response directly into state with const [quickbaseData, setQuickbaseData] = useState(res.data); for example, you need to keep the structure of the response in mind when accessing that data. If I want to get the value of FID 3 from the first record in the response I would need to use quickbaseData[0]["3"].value. For most field types value will be a string or integer but for some field types it will be an object. You can see the way values are returned for each field type in Field type details.

Depending on your needs you might consider processing the Quickbase response into a new, simpler array/object to use in your application. This is especially helpful if the value being returned needs additional processing such as converting into a Date() object. This would also allow you to make your application API agnostic since other than initially processing the response from Quickbase the rest of your application doesn't have to have any knowledge of how Quickbase returns queried data.