Classic ASP

PayPal - Void an Authorization

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Voids a previously authorized payment.

Note: A fully captured authorization cannot be voided.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.65 or greater.

Classic ASP

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success = 0

'  Note: Requires Chilkat v9.5.0.64 or greater.

'  This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

'  Load our previously obtained access token. (see PayPal OAuth2 Access Token)
set jsonToken = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/paypal.json")

'  Build the Authorization request header field value.
set sbAuth = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
'  token_type should be "Bearer"
success = sbAuth.Append(jsonToken.StringOf("token_type"))
success = sbAuth.Append(" ")
success = sbAuth.Append(jsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))

'  Make the initial connection.
'  A single REST object, once connected, can be used for many PayPal REST API calls.
'  The auto-reconnect indicates that if the already-established HTTPS connection is closed,
'  then it will be automatically re-established as needed.
set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("api.sandbox.paypal.com",443,1,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'  The code above this comment could be placed inside a function/subroutine within the application
'  because the connection does not need to be made for every request.  Once the connection is made
'  the app may send many requests..
'  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

set json = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
json.EmitCompact = 0

'  This is the OAuth2 Authorization header, not to be confused with a PayPal credit card authorization...
success = rest.AddHeader("Authorization",sbAuth.GetAsString())
success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json")

'  The authorization ID is added to the path.
'  The authorization ID is obtained from payment records as shown here: Find Authorizations
set sbPath = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbPath.Append("/v1/payments/authorization/authorization_id/void")
numReplaced = sbPath.Replace("authorization_id","0SU72290A8399291G")

'  Send the POST request containing an empty JSON body, and get the JSON response.
set sbJsonRequest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbJsonRequest.Append("{}")

set sbJsonResponse = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST",sbPath.GetAsString(),sbJsonRequest,sbJsonResponse)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

json.EmitCompact = 0
success = json.LoadSb(sbJsonResponse)

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response Status Code = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode) & "</pre>"

'  Did we get a 200 success response?
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( json.Emit()) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Failed.") & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( json.Emit()) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Success.") & "</pre>"

'  A successful JSON response:

'  	{ 
'  	  "id": "0SU72290A8399291G",
'  	  "create_time": "2016-11-26T17:31:05Z",
'  	  "update_time": "2016-11-26T17:31:10Z",
'  	  "amount": { 
'  	    "total": "6.70",
'  	    "currency": "USD",
'  	    "details": { 
'  	      "subtotal": "6.70"
'  	    }
'  	  },
'  	  "state": "voided",
'  	  "parent_payment": "PAY-62106714J93631829LA44NWI",
'  	  "links": [
'  	    { 
'  	      "href": "https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/payments/authorization/0SU72290A8399291G",
'  	      "rel": "self",
'  	      "method": "GET"
'  	    },
'  	    { 
'  	      "href": "https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/payments/payment/PAY-62106714J93631829LA44NWI",
'  	      "rel": "parent_payment",
'  	      "method": "GET"
'  	    }
'  	  ]
'  	}

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