Get all billing invoice items

Retrieve all billing invoice items from account

Retrieve all billing invoice items from account.

This script prints all billing invoice items from account, on this case we’ll use a large object mask in order to retrieve a lot of data. To avoid API errors related to “Time out” or or “size limit”, first we’ll get de ID of all SoftLayer_Billing_Invoice objects between two dates, on this case we’ll use the method SoftLayer_Account::getInvoices. After that, through loops we will retrieve all invoice items, here we’ll use the method SoftLayer_Billing_Invoice::getItems and “result limits” to avoid errors. See below for more information.

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"encoding/json"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/session"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/services"
)

func main() {
	// SoftLayer API username and key
	username := "set me"
	apikey   := "set me"

	// Create a session
	sess := session.New(username, apikey)

	// Get SoftLayer_Account and SoftLayer_Billing_Invoice services
	accountService := services.GetAccountService(sess)
	invoiceService := services.GetBillingInvoiceService(sess)

	// Object mask to get the ID of all SoftLayer_Billing_Invoice objects
	mask := "id;createDate;typeCode"

	// Object mask to get information about SoftLayer_Billing_Invoice_Items
	itemMask := "id;recurringFee;recurringTaxAmount;oneTimeFee;oneTimeTaxAmount;description;" +
		    "hostName;domainName;hourlyRecurringFee;laborFee;laborTaxAmount;setupFee;" +
		    "setupTaxAmount;category[name];location[longName];billingItem[id;activeFlag;" +
		    "hourlyFlag;allowCancellationFlag;cancellationDate;orderItem[id;order[id;" +
		    "userRecord[id,username]]]]"

	// Filter to get all RECURRING invoices between two dates
	filter := `{"invoices":{
	                  "createDate":{
			       "operation":"betweenDate",
			       "options":[{
			            "name":"startDate",
			            "value":["03/25/2017"]
			       },{
			            "name":"endDate",
			            "value": ["04/24/2017"]
			       }]
			  },
			  "typeCode":{
			       "operation":"RECURRING"
			  }
		    }}`

	// Call method getInvoices() in order to retrieve SoftLayer_Billing_Invoice objects.
	invoices, err := accountService.Filter(filter).Mask(mask).GetInvoices()
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("\n Unable to retrieve invoices:\n - %s\n", err)
		return
	}

	// Following loop is to get and print all items of each retrieved invoice
	for _, invoice := range invoices {

		// Print Id, createDate and typeCode of each invoice
		fmt.Printf("\n\nINVOICE ID: %d\t CREATE DATE: %s\t TYPE CODE: %s\n\n",
			*invoice.Id, *invoice.CreateDate, *invoice.TypeCode)

		// Some invoices have hundred of items and to avoid limitSize or timeout errors
		// we'll use result limits in order to get items 100 by 100.
		limit := 100
		offset := 0
		hasItems := true

		// Following loop is used to get and print items 100 by 100.
		// 'hasItems' will turn FALSE if there isn't more items, the loop will end and
		// code will continue with next invoice.
		for hasItems {
			// Call SoftLayer_Billing_Invoice::getItems method
			items, err :=  invoiceService.Id(*invoice.Id).Mask(itemMask).Limit(limit).Offset(offset).GetItems()
			if err != nil {
				fmt.Printf("\n Unable to retrieve invoice's items:\n - %s\n", err)
				return
			}

			// Following will print retrieved invoices
			for _, item := range items {
				jsonFormat, jsonErr := json.Marshal(item)
				if jsonErr != nil {
					fmt.Println(jsonErr)
					return
				}
				fmt.Printf("\n%s", string(jsonFormat))
			}

			// hasItems will turn FALSE if invoice doesn't have more items and code will
			// continue with next invoice.
			if len(items) > 0 {
				offset += limit
			} else {
				hasItems = false
			}
		}

		// Print a single separator between invoices
		fmt.Printf("\n\n%s", strings.Repeat("-", 150))
	}
}

December 1, 2020

Get all billing invoice items

Retrieve all billing invoice items from account.