I am trying to use PayPal Express Checkout with the Braintree SDK and unfortunately the documentation is seriously inadequate in some places. I need to generate a client code on the server (with Java), for which I need to use the following code to generate the gateway object according to the docs:
BraintreeGateway gateway = new BraintreeGateway(useYourAccessToken);
Unfortunately it doesn't explain what access token it is referring to. I seem to be able to generate an access token with 'Generate Sandbox Access Token' under 'My Apps & Credentials' in the PayPal dashboard, and this works. But it has an unusably short expiry date, expiring at the end of today, which obviously makes testing problematic if I have to change the code every day.
There seems to be another constructor for BraintreeGateway, allowing me to pass in an environment specifier (e.g. sandbox), merchant ID, public key and private key. I believe that the public key and private key parameters might be what is visible to me as client ID and secret, in 'SANDBOX API CREDENTIALS', but I'm not sure what merchant ID is.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Idiocy on my part. I wasn't looking closely enough at the expiry date. It's not today, it's 10 years from today! Duh.
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I would like to create a token (asset) on the Ripple XRP ledger.
What transaction type does that?
So far i only found that a wallet called https://www.theworldexchange.net/ supports that activity.
However, i'd like to do it directly on the network. (Ie through a direct transaction)
There is a complete tutorial (published this August) on how to do this here: https://xrpl.org/issue-a-fungible-token.html
The short version is that it's several steps:
You enable the Default Ripple flag on your issuing account by sending an AccountSet transaction with the appropriate flag. This will allow users to swap your token among themselves.
A user sends a TrustSet transaction to your address indicating their willingness to hold your token.
You send the user the token using a Payment transaction.
There are many ways to use tokens on the XRP Ledger, including community credit, but if you are planning on providing a high-quality token for sales to the public, there are a lot of non-technical steps like defining the appropriate policies, establishing a reputation around your token or your business, and (depending on how you use and promote your token) acquiring the appropriate legal licenses or other standing for the jurisdictions you operate in. (In short: Please don't just make a token to cash in on some online craze and then find the SEC knocking at your door shouting that your token fails the Howey Test.)
You can also create a token through the "Token creator" xApp inside the XUMM wallet.
So you would have to download the XUMM wallet app, create and fund an account and open the "xApps" section and find the "Token Creator" xApp which guides you through the process of creating a token on the XRPL.
Issued Currencies are done via OfferCreate transactions.
In order to issue a currency, one just issues an offer to sell a quantity of some new token for some amount of XRP (or other issued currency for that matter)
So what do you use the secret key for ?
I'm developing using WordPress/Php and got a bit annoyed at the various Paypal plugins not doing exacly what I wanted them to, so I wrote my own plugin which works perfectly. I can get any interaction I want within my applications.
I'm using Paypal checkout, but my implementation only uses the public key. Most PayPal plugins I've seen you have to provide both the public and private keys. It just dawned on me that I'm not using the private key.
My question is what do I do with the private key ?
Do I need to use it. I've been through the paypal documentation and although there is lots of documentation about the private key, there is nothing that says you have to use it. Should I be bothered about not using it.
If you are referring to the REST API clientid and secret, the secret is used for server-side API communication with PayPal.
If your integration is not doing any server-side API communication with PayPal, then you won't be using it for anything.
Server-side integrations are more robust, and require a developer with the knowledge and ability to implement them. Here is a front-end UI pattern that would communicate with 2 server-side routes: https://developer.paypal.com/demo/checkout/#/pattern/server
Those routes would need to be created on the server, and implement the appropriate business logic as well as do API calls to PayPal, using the clientid and secret, to 'Set Up Transaction' and 'Capture Transaction', respectively. Here is information on that: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/reference/server-integration/
I am using Braintree payment in my app. It works perfectly fine using nonce method using server, this method.
But now our requirements changed and we are not allow to use any sever to verify nonce.
In Braintree we can use tokenization key authorizes clients to tokenize payment information. But there is not any descriptive information about it, this method. Only one line of code is provided in doc and there is no other resources I found useful for tokenization key method.
let apiClient = BTAPIClient(authorization: tokenizationKey)
How to use it with DropInUI ?
apiClient is always return nil.
Also I checked Briantreeios demo, but its very confusing. In some example I don't know how payment method work and on which end points used to verify details and deduct amount.
Thanks in advance.
Full disclosure, I work at Braintree. If you have any further questions, I recommend contacting Support.
You are not able to perform transactions directly from the client. Braintree is a full stack solution that requires a server integration with one of Braintree's available SDKs or by using the GraphQL API. In either case, you cannot make payments directly from the client using a tokenization key.
I need to add PayPal button on client's website. It is first time I am doing this and I asked for credentials he gave me API signature, API username and API password. I was checking lots of tutorials how to add PayPal button, they use sandbox/live Client ID and Secret. Can I use this API credentials instead?
I searched a lot but couldn't find an answer.
I am coding in CodeIgniter 3.
Thanks
Username, Password, and Signature are related to Classic API integration.
Client ID and Secret are related to the REST API integration.
Which one do you want to work with?
Or, the easiest option is to use PayPal Standard Payment Buttons, but that will also be the most limiting.
We actually have a PayPal CodeIgniter Library that you might be interested in. It was built for the Classic API.
The general PayPal PHP SDK that it's based on is now available with Composer, so I would recommend installing it that way.
We'll be releasing an update to that library before the end of the year that adds all of the REST APIs. It's available in the dev branch on GitHub already.
Today I have been trying to implement the rest API into my application to look up transaction information from a transaction ID (GET /v1/payments/sale/)
I have implemented everything correctly on my end and set the mode to "live" and I can't seem to get details from a transaction.
Here is the full error code:
{"name":"REQUIRED_SCOPE_MISSING","message":"Access token does not have required scope","information_link":"https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/api/#REQUIRED_SCOPE_MISSING"}
And here is documentation on what I am trying to do: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/#look-up-a-sale
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
There are few things you could do to make sure your configurations are set right.
If the mode is set to live, are you using the live credentials instead of sandbox. You can select the sandbox app and copy the live credentials from there. See bottom part of this image.
Make sure Payments are enabled on live. PayPal has a dashboard page, where you could see all the services that you have enabled to work with Live environment. This prevents accidents on unknowingly using an API on live. You can check the status here
Is the sale that you are looking for created by the same clientId that you are using for making a GET call ? Only the app who creates the sale, can view the sale.
In the mean time, PayPal has created SDKs for many languages to support REST APIs. They are actively developed, and maintained, and could help you mitigate issues in handling tokens, credentials, etc, and allows you to quickly use APIs faster and in a way that could be upgraded easily. Also, few SDKs come packaged with Sample codes, and wiki documentations. Few are still under development, but you can feel free to contribute back to these open source SDKs.
When I had this issue, the problem was that I was making REST requests using the Identity API token. Basically, I was logging users into my website with Paypal then using that token for REST requests when another token from the REST API service should have been used. "
Here is the support ticket from Paypal SDK deveoper Randy who helped answer my question even though I do not use the SDK. Thanks Randy:
https://github.com/paypal/PayPal-PHP-SDK/issues/785#issuecomment-282749095