David,
I know about the Web Services API, but it can not be used to initiate buyer transactions.
You can use it to request transaction informations, status, make refunds, or initiate a mass payment from YOUR side TO your clients.
As this is not the business model I pursue in my project ;-) it's of no real use to me for this matters.
The only way to submit a cart (item, whatever) to paypal for payment processing is by POST submitting a form. At least as far as I know and 've been informed by the PayPal staff ...
But thanks! It would have been great if PayPal would support a solution like this ... the form processing/ipn call-back variant is a pain in the *** for any more customized implementation and about inhibits a smooth customer experience :-( without a developer breaking a leg to bend this interface to kind'a work.
Chris
David G. Friedman wrote:
Chris,
I was curious about this so I got a free PayPal developer account on http://developer.paypal.com. They have a seemingly Java complete API (they call it version 2.0 and the site is https://api.paypal.com/2.0 (cheesy, huh?). So, it looks like you have a complete option to talk to PayPal without requiring uses to perform HTTPS Posts and/or leave your web site. The java client example includes tests for refunds, searching transactions, billing users, something calld "mass pay," and status requests. The files are under the developer's login, tab "help center", top right area "Code Samples" right below ".NET Code Samples" as the title "Java / AXIS Code Samples."
DISCLAIMER - This was just a curious person's FYI, I do NOT work for PAYPAL nor have I used it in months/years. :)
Regards, David
-----Original Message----- From: mail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 5:30 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Create and submit POST form from Action
David,
Thanks big time for your efforts. I did manage to implement an approach solving all my problems, it is just not near as clean as I was hoping ...
I use HttpClient to communicate with the payment processing system (paypal in this case) and route the response to the users browser session (that's the real dirty part I don't like at all) After processing the transaction verification request, I return the user to a page within my application.
Thanks, Chris
David G. Friedman wrote:
Chris,
I ran across this note which might help you. My comment is below. I found it when reading an article on http/https switching a moment ago (based upon a recent post about that topic with a link):
---------- BEGIN NOTE -- The second mechanism, the sendRedirect() method in the HttpServletResponse interface, provides the power to route to any URL with any protocol, as shown here:
aResponse.sendRedirect("http://some.otherdomain.com/aPage.jsp";); // OR an encoded URL with parameters. aResponse.sendRedirect(aResponse.encodeRedirectURL(redirectString));
The only caveat here is that a response can only issue a redirect before it has committed. If a response attempts a redirect after committing, the sendRedirect() method will throw an IllegalStateException. With this limitation in mind, we select the sendRedirect() mechanism for use in our SSL implementation solution because of its greater flexibility in URL specification.
---------- END NOTE --
If I recall, you can make your action return a null so nothing else is displayed, other than the redirect. Or you could try making it show a page after the send redirect that explains you are now being forwarded to the Payment Processing page at another site. I recommend trying that as browsers MAY warn you about being redirected to a SECURE URL on another web site, i.e. not your own site.
As I've mentioned, I've done server-side payment processing using a HTTP
POST to a similar service: Verisign's PayFlow Link. I don't know if there
are many pages needed before the customer can hit 'okay' and submit the
process, but you might want to see if you can bypass them by adding
additional urls to get to any 'final' page so the client can simply jump
from your site to one page on Paypal where s/he can hit 'purchase' and go
home (or return to your web site, often by specifing a form parameter).
Regards, David
-----Original Message----- From: mail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 11:12 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Create and submit POST form from Action
Hey,
Thanks for your thoughts! But that's not the part I can't figure out ;-) If I do implement things on this low level, I don't see how to route the users browser to the PayPal site.
Having a JSP/Servlet environment to play with, I am bound to what it
offers me ...
I know how to do a POST submission, I just don't know how to do this
from either a Struts Action,
beor HttpServlet, having the users browser end up on the PayPal site to make his payment.
So if you, or anybody could help my stuck mind build the bridge to that, I'll be eternally thankful :o)
Thanks, Chris
David G. Friedman wrote:
Let's see, you could google this search query: +java +code +post +paypal
You'll find this page which explains it all very nicely on how to post to PayPal: http://www.paypaldev.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=228
My personal code is very similar to it. I'm not the best coder so don't
too critical of my code. Below is a snippet of my method that does a POST (HTTPS) to Verisign's PayFlowLink. It shouldn't take much for you to do
the
same to adapt it to HTTP(S?) Post to PayPal.
// BEGIN RELEVANT CODE SNIPPETS
// The basics are to put these things in your method:
// Add a security provider to allow SSL POSTs: Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
// Set a handler for SSL (not sure how this is different from the above System.setProperty("java.protocol.handler.pkgs", "com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol");
try { // Setup the URL: URL url = new URL("https://payflowlink.verisign.com/RunTrans.cfm";);
// Setup the connection object: HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
// Setup the query string --- WARNING this below is for // Verisign PayFlowLink, NOT PAYPAL! String separators = new String("&"); StringBuffer parms = new StringBuffer("SOMETHING=SOMEVALUE" + separator); parms.append("PARAMTWO=VALUETWO" + separator); parms.append("PARAMTHREE=VALUETHREE" + separator); // An echo print for your testing mode (remove in production!!!!) System.out.println("Verisign POST is: " + parms.toString());
// Use a byte array for the String in the connection and set various // properties for the connection byte[] bytes = parms.toString().getBytes(); conn.setRequestMethod("POST"); conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); conn.setRequestProperty("Content-length", String.valueOf(bytes.length)); conn.setDoInput(true); conn.setDoOutput(true); OutputStream out = null;
// Perform the HTTPS POST try { out = conn.getOutputStream(); out.write(bytes); out.flush(); out.close(); } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println( "Error opening OutputStream from Verisign Payment Post is:" + e.getMessage()); return (false); }
// Read the returned information BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
// Figure out how to read it. I use Perl5Utils to scan through // my Verisign result for specific error codes response = reader.readLine();
} catch (MalformedURLException mue) { System.out.println("Verisign Purchase: Bad URL, aborting."); return (false); } catch (IOException ioe) { System.out.println( "Verisign Purchase: Failed Internet Connection Attempt."); return (false); }
// END RELEVANT CODE SNIPPETS
Regards, David
-----Original Message----- From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 7:16 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Create and submit POST form from Action
From: "mail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I populate my cart, and paypal expects a POST form submission to present the user with the payment forms (register/login/submit payment), and after the user submits or cancels the payment, paypal would submit a reply form to my site ... at least this is the flow I understand from the paypal developer docs.
AFAIK they do their thing and either post to your 'success' page or your 'failure' page. So if you make your 'success' page a URL that maps to an Action... wouldn't that do it?
You may also want to go talk with these guys: http://www.paypaldev.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3239
-- Wendy Smoak
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