/// <summary>
        /// Creates an account under a given customer
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="Models.CreateAccountInput">Object containing request parameters</param>
        /// <return>Returns the Models.AccountModel response from the API call</return>
        public Models.AccountModel CreateAccount(Models.CreateAccountInput input)
        {
            Task <Models.AccountModel> t = CreateAccountAsync(input);

            APIHelper.RunTaskSynchronously(t);
            return(t.Result);
        }
        /// <summary>
        /// Creates an account under a given customer
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="Models.CreateAccountInput">Object containing request parameters</param>
        /// <return>Returns the Models.AccountModel response from the API call</return>
        public async Task <Models.AccountModel> CreateAccountAsync(Models.CreateAccountInput input)
        {
            //validating required parameters
            if (null == input.CustomerIdentifier)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("customerIdentifier", "The property \"CustomerIdentifier\" in the input object cannot be null.");
            }

            if (null == input.Body)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("body", "The property \"Body\" in the input object cannot be null.");
            }

            //the base uri for api requests
            string _baseUri = Configuration.GetBaseURI();

            //prepare query string for API call
            StringBuilder _queryBuilder = new StringBuilder(_baseUri);

            _queryBuilder.Append("/customers/{customerIdentifier}/accounts");

            //process optional template parameters
            APIHelper.AppendUrlWithTemplateParameters(_queryBuilder, new Dictionary <string, object>()
            {
                { "customerIdentifier", input.CustomerIdentifier }
            });


            //validate and preprocess url
            string _queryUrl = APIHelper.CleanUrl(_queryBuilder);

            //append request with appropriate headers and parameters
            var _headers = new Dictionary <string, string>()
            {
                { "user-agent", "V2NGSDK" },
                { "accept", "application/json" },
                { "content-type", "application/json; charset=utf-8" }
            };

            //append body params
            var _body = APIHelper.JsonSerialize(input.Body);

            //prepare the API call request to fetch the response
            HttpRequest _request = ClientInstance.PostBody(_queryUrl, _headers, _body, Configuration.PlatformName, Configuration.PlatformKey);

            //invoke request and get response
            HttpStringResponse _response = (HttpStringResponse)await ClientInstance.ExecuteAsStringAsync(_request).ConfigureAwait(false);

            HttpContext _context = new HttpContext(_request, _response);

            //Error handling using HTTP status codes
            if ((_response.StatusCode < 200) || (_response.StatusCode > 208)) //[200,208] = HTTP OK
            {
                throw new RaasGenericException(@"API Error", _context);
            }

            //handle errors defined at the API level
            base.ValidateResponse(_response, _context);

            try
            {
                return(APIHelper.JsonDeserialize <Models.AccountModel>(_response.Body));
            }
            catch (Exception _ex)
            {
                throw new APIException("Failed to parse the response: " + _ex.Message, _context);
            }
        }