(PowerBuilder) CardConnect Validate Merchant-Level Credentials

To test and validate merchant-level credentials, you can make a PUT request, including the merchant ID in the body of the request, to the base URL. The Gateway verifies that the MID matches the credentials provided in the header.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads

ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

integer li_rc
oleobject loo_Http
oleobject loo_Json
integer li_Success
string ls_Url
string ls_ResponseStr

// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

loo_Http = create oleobject
// Use "Chilkat_9_5_0.Http" for versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0
li_rc = loo_Http.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Http")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Http
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

loo_Http.BasicAuth = 1
loo_Http.Login = "API_USERNAME"
loo_Http.Password = "API_PASSWORD"

loo_Json = create oleobject
// Use "Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject" for versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0
li_rc = loo_Json.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")

li_Success = loo_Json.UpdateString("merchid","MERCHANT_ID")

ls_Url = "https://<site>.cardconnect.com:<port>/cardconnect/rest/"
ls_ResponseStr = loo_Http.PutText(ls_Url,loo_Json.Emit(),"utf-8","application/json",0,0)

if loo_Http.LastMethodSuccess = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Http.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Http
    destroy loo_Json
    return
end if

// If we get a 200 response status and an HTML response saying "CardConnect REST Servlet", then our credentials are correct.
Write-Debug "response status code = " + string(loo_Http.LastStatus)

Write-Debug "response string:"
Write-Debug ls_ResponseStr

// Sample output:

// response status code = 200
// response string:
// <html lang="en"><body><h1>CardConnect REST Servlet</h1></body></html


destroy loo_Http
destroy loo_Json