How to send paypal information to firebase swift code? - swift

Question

I want to access to the information that I have to save for legal after user pay by using PayPal. Here is the code when user select to pay by PayPal, but how can I fetch the information that PayPal give after user complete the payment. And how can I send them to firebase?
#IBAction func btnPaypal(_ sender: UIButton) {
let payPalDriver = BTPayPalDriver(apiClient: braintreeClient)
payPalDriver.viewControllerPresentingDelegate = self
payPalDriver.appSwitchDelegate = self // Optional
// Specify the transaction amount here. "2.32" is used in this example.
let request = BTPayPalRequest(amount: lblSubtotal.text!)
request.currencyCode = "USD" // Optional; see BTPayPalRequest.h for more options
payPalDriver.requestOneTimePayment(request) { (tokenizedPayPalAccount, error) in
if let tokenizedPayPalAccount = tokenizedPayPalAccount {
print("Got a nonce: \(tokenizedPayPalAccount.nonce)")
// Access additional information
print("------------ paypal receipt -------------")
self.payPal = true
let email = tokenizedPayPalAccount.email
debugPrint(email!)
let firstName = tokenizedPayPalAccount.firstName
debugPrint(firstName!)
let lastName = tokenizedPayPalAccount.lastName
debugPrint(lastName!)
let phone = tokenizedPayPalAccount.phone
debugPrint(phone as Any)
// ....
let postalAddress = tokenizedPayPalAccount.billingAddress
// Access the properties of the address
debugPrint(postalAddress as Any)
let streetAddress = postalAddress?.streetAddress
debugPrint(streetAddress as Any)
let extendedAddress = postalAddress?.extendedAddress
debugPrint(extendedAddress as Any)
let locality = postalAddress?.locality
debugPrint(locality as Any)
let countryCodeAlpha2 = postalAddress?.countryCodeAlpha2
debugPrint(countryCodeAlpha2 as Any)
let postalCode = postalAddress?.postalCode
debugPrint(postalCode as Any)
let region = postalAddress?.region
debugPrint(region as Any)
// See BTPostalAddress.h for details
// let billingAddress = tokenizedPayPalAccount.billingAddress
// debugPrint(billingAddress as Any)
let shippingAddress = tokenizedPayPalAccount.shippingAddress
debugPrint(shippingAddress!)
for obj in self.arrayCart {
let invoiceID = self.ref.childByAutoId().key
let userID = Auth.auth().currentUser?.uid
let invoice = [
"invoiceID" : invoiceID,
"buyerID" : userID,
"payPal info" : ["payPal email" : email,
"first name" : firstName,
"last name" : lastName,
"phone" : phone,
"postalAddress" : postalAddress,
"streetAddress" : streetAddress,
"extendedAddress" : extendedAddress,
"locality" : locality,
"countryCodeAlpha2" : countryCodeAlpha2,
"postalCode" : postalCode,
"region" : region,
"shippingAddress" : shippingAddress]
] as [String : Any]
self.ref.child("invoice").child(invoiceID!).setValue(invoice)
}
print("------------ paypal receipt end -------------")
} else if let error = error {
// Handle error here...
print("error -------- \(error)")
} else {
// Buyer canceled payment approval
// alert
}
Error:
'InvalidFirebaseData', reason: '(setValue:) Cannot store object of type BTPostalAddress at payPal info.shippingAddress. Can only store objects of type NSNumber, NSString, NSDictionary, and NSArray.'

Answer 1

The error messsage is pretty clear; you're attempting to store an object in Firebase Realtime Database that's not an object Firebase accepts.
Here's the object you're attempting to store
let shippingAddress = tokenizedPayPalAccount.shippingAddress
and Firebase only supports NSNumber, NSString, NSDictionary, and NSArray. See Basic Write Operations for more info.
To fix it, you're going to need to deconstruct that object into primitive values, probably easiest to cast all of it's properties to strings and store that in a child node
payPal info
payPal email: "some email"
first name: "some first name"
shippingAddressWithChildData:
streetAddress: "some street address" //from the `tokenizedPayPalAccount.billingAddress` object
extended: "some additional street address info"
If you really need to store that particular object, Firebase does support NSData so you could cast the whole thing to an NSData object and store that but I would not suggest that path.