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PayPal: Find captures for a known order

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Read the known order and visit every purchase unit. Extract its captures with their IDs, statuses and amounts. An empty collection means this order has no such resources yet; it says nothing about other orders.

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import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

# See Unlock Chilkat before making requests.
# For the merchant's internal backoffice application. Load the sandbox token
# from the merchant's credential store. Keep it out of publicly distributed apps.
# See Get a PayPal access token.
http = chilkat2.Http()
http.AuthToken = "SANDBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN"
resp = chilkat2.HttpResponse()

http.SetUrlVar("id","ORDER_ID")

success = http.HttpNoBody("GET","https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com/v2/checkout/orders/{$id}",resp)
if (success != True):
    print("No HTTP response: " + http.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

if ((resp.StatusCode < 200) or (resp.StatusCode >= 300)):
    errorInfo = chilkat2.JsonObject()
    errorInfo.Load(resp.BodyStr)
    print("HTTP " + str(resp.StatusCode) + " " + errorInfo.StringOf("name") + " " + errorInfo.StringOf("details[0].issue"))
    print("PayPal debug ID: " + errorInfo.StringOf("debug_id"))
    sys.exit()

result = chilkat2.JsonObject()
parsed = result.Load(resp.BodyStr)
if (parsed != True):
    print("Expected a JSON response; HTTP " + str(resp.StatusCode))
    sys.exit()

# A purchase unit may have no captures yet, or more than one.
i = 0
while (i < result.SizeOfArray("purchase_units")) :
    result.I = i
    j = 0
    while (j < result.SizeOfArray("purchase_units[i].payments.captures")) :
        result.J = j
        print("Unit: " + result.StringOf("purchase_units[i].reference_id") + "  capture: " + result.StringOf("purchase_units[i].payments.captures[j].id"))
        print("  " + result.StringOf("purchase_units[i].payments.captures[j].status") + "  " + result.StringOf("purchase_units[i].payments.captures[j].amount.value")\
             + " " + result.StringOf("purchase_units[i].payments.captures[j].amount.currency_code"))
        j = j + 1

    i = i + 1