(Perl) PayPal - Create a PayPal Payment

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Creates a payment to be paid from a PayPal account (as opposed to being funded by a credit card).

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

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use chilkat();

# Note: Requires Chilkat v9.5.0.65 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)
$jsonToken = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$jsonToken->LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/paypal.json");

# Build the Authorization request header field value.
$sbAuth = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
# token_type should be "Bearer"
$sbAuth->Append($jsonToken->stringOf("token_type"));
$sbAuth->Append(" ");
$sbAuth->Append($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.
$rest = chilkat::CkRest->new();
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect("api.sandbox.paypal.com",443,1,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 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 the JSON containing the transaction information.
$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$json->put_EmitCompact(0);
$json->UpdateString("intent","sale");
$json->UpdateString("redirect_urls.return_url","http://www.example.com/return_url");
$json->UpdateString("redirect_urls.cancel_url","http://www.example.com/cancel_url");
$json->UpdateString("payer.payment_method","paypal");
$json->UpdateString("transactions[0].amount.total","7.47");
$json->UpdateString("transactions[0].amount.currency","USD");
$json->UpdateString("transactions[0].description","This is the payment transaction description.");

print $json->emit() . "\r\n";

# The JSON created by the above code is this:

# 	{ 
# 	  "intent": "sale",
# 	  "redirect_urls": { 
# 	    "return_url": "http://www.example.com/return_url",
# 	    "cancel_url": "http://www.example.com/cancel_url"
# 	  },
# 	  "payer": { 
# 	    "payment_method": "paypal"
# 	  },
# 	  "transactions": [
# 	    { 
# 	      "amount": { 
# 	        "total": "7.47",
# 	        "currency": "USD"
# 	      },
# 	      "description": "This is the payment transaction description."
# 	    }
# 	  ]
# 	}

$rest->AddHeader("Authorization",$sbAuth->getAsString());
$rest->AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json");

# Send the POST request containign the JSON in the request body, and get the JSON response.
$sbJsonRequest = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$json->put_EmitCompact(1);
$json->EmitSb($sbJsonRequest);
$sbJsonResponse = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$success = $rest->FullRequestSb("POST","/v1/payments/payment",$sbJsonRequest,$sbJsonResponse);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$json->put_EmitCompact(0);
$json->LoadSb($sbJsonResponse);

print "Response Status Code = " . $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() . "\r\n";

# Did we get a 201 success response?
if ($rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() != 201) {
    print $json->emit() . "\r\n";
    print "Failed." . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Sample JSON response is shown below.
print $json->emit() . "\r\n";
print "success" . "\r\n";

# ------------------------------------------------
# A sample JSON response:

# 	{ 
# 	  "id": "PAY-1XK50350XV338620BLA3CZGI",
# 	  "intent": "sale",
# 	  "state": "created",
# 	  "payer": { 
# 	    "payment_method": "paypal",
# 	    "use_vendor_currency_conversion": false
# 	  },
# 	  "transactions": [
# 	    { 
# 	      "amount": { 
# 	        "total": "7.47",
# 	        "currency": "USD"
# 	      },
# 	      "description": "This is the payment transaction description.",
# 	      "related_resources": [
# 	      ]
# 	    }
# 	  ],
# 	  "create_time": "2016-11-23T23:56:09Z",
# 	  "links": [
# 	    { 
# 	      "href": "https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/payments/payment/PAY-1XK50350XV338620BLA3CZGI",
# 	      "rel": "self",
# 	      "method": "GET"
# 	    },
# 	    { 
# 	      "href": "https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_express-checkout&token=EC-0BG932459F977083J",
# 	      "rel": "approval_url",
# 	      "method": "REDIRECT"
# 	    },
# 	    { 
# 	      "href": "https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/payments/payment/PAY-1XK50350XV338620BLA3CZGI/execute",
# 	      "rel": "execute",
# 	      "method": "POST"
# 	    }
# 	  ]
# 	}