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PayPal Send Invoice

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Sends a PayPal invoice to a customer.

See also Send Invoice

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Local $bSuccess = False

; 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)
$oJsonToken = ObjCreate("Chilkat.JsonObject")
$oJsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/paypal.json")

; Build the Authorization request header field value.
$oSbAuth = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
; token_type should be "Bearer"
$oSbAuth.Append($oJsonToken.StringOf("token_type"))
$oSbAuth.Append(" ")
$oSbAuth.Append($oJsonToken.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.
$oRest = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Rest")
Local $bAutoReconnect = True
$bSuccess = $oRest.Connect("api.sandbox.paypal.com",443,True,$bAutoReconnect)
If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; 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..
; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

; Build a path using a draft invoice ID.
$oSbPath = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
$oSbPath.Append("/v1/invoicing/invoices/invoice_id/send")
Local $iNumReplacements = $oSbPath.Replace("invoice_id","INV2-QCHR-QHSD-M2VU-AVXC")

$oRest.AddHeader("Authorization",$oSbAuth.GetAsString())
$oRest.AddQueryParam("notify_merchant","true")

Local $sResponseBody = $oRest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded("POST",$oSbPath.GetAsString())
If ($oRest.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite("Response Status Code = " & $oRest.ResponseStatusCode & @CRLF)

; Did we get a 202 accepted response?
If ($oRest.ResponseStatusCode <> 202) Then
    ConsoleWrite($sResponseBody & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("Failed." & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; If the 202 response is received, the response body would be empty...
ConsoleWrite("Success." & @CRLF)