Visual FoxPro

PayPal Send Invoice

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Sends a PayPal invoice to a customer.

See also Send Invoice

Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loJsonToken
LOCAL loSbAuth
LOCAL loRest
LOCAL lnBAutoReconnect
LOCAL loSbPath
LOCAL lnNumReplacements
LOCAL lcResponseBody

lnSuccess = 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)
loJsonToken = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
loJsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/paypal.json")

* Build the Authorization request header field value.
loSbAuth = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
* token_type should be "Bearer"
loSbAuth.Append(loJsonToken.StringOf("token_type"))
loSbAuth.Append(" ")
loSbAuth.Append(loJsonToken.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.
loRest = CreateObject('Chilkat.Rest')
lnBAutoReconnect = 1
lnSuccess = loRest.Connect("api.sandbox.paypal.com",443,1,lnBAutoReconnect)
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loJsonToken
    RELEASE loSbAuth
    RELEASE loRest
    CANCEL
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.
loSbPath = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
loSbPath.Append("/v1/invoicing/invoices/invoice_id/send")
lnNumReplacements = loSbPath.Replace("invoice_id","INV2-QCHR-QHSD-M2VU-AVXC")

loRest.AddHeader("Authorization",loSbAuth.GetAsString())
loRest.AddQueryParam("notify_merchant","true")

lcResponseBody = loRest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded("POST",loSbPath.GetAsString())
IF (loRest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loJsonToken
    RELEASE loSbAuth
    RELEASE loRest
    RELEASE loSbPath
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "Response Status Code = " + STR(loRest.ResponseStatusCode)

* Did we get a 202 accepted response?
IF (loRest.ResponseStatusCode <> 202) THEN
    ? lcResponseBody
    ? "Failed."
    RELEASE loJsonToken
    RELEASE loSbAuth
    RELEASE loRest
    RELEASE loSbPath
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* If the 202 response is received, the response body would be empty...
? "Success."

RELEASE loJsonToken
RELEASE loSbAuth
RELEASE loRest
RELEASE loSbPath