What are valid payment-method-tokens? - paypal

Question

I'm trying to create a credit card and therefore I need to call paymentMethodNone(). According to the documentation I can
Use PaymentMethod.create() to create a payment method for an existing customer:
// It's not clear what A_PAYMENT_METHOD_TOKEN has to be
Result<PaymentMethodNonce> result = bt.paymentMethodNonce()
.create("A_PAYMENT_METHOD_TOKEN");
String nonceFromTheClient = result.getTarget().getNonce();
Customer customer = customerResult.getTarget();
PaymentMethodRequest paymentMethodRequest = new PaymentMethodRequest()
.customerId(customer.getId())
.paymentMethodNonce(nonceFromTheClient);
Result<? extends PaymentMethod> paymentMethodResult = bt.paymentMethod()
.create(paymentMethodRequest);
PaymentMethod paymentMethod = paymentMethodResult.getTarget();
However, no word about what valid tokens are in the documentation. Neither here nor here - or am I just blind?

Answer 1

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You do not need a payment_method_token to create a PaymentMethod.
To create a credit card, you will need to create a PaymentMethod. First, retrieve the payment_method_nonce from the incoming request. Next, create the PaymentMethod using PaymentMethodRequest.
//payment_method_nonce will be a post parameter in the request
//set nonceFromTheClient to equal payment_method_nonce
PaymentMethodRequest paymentMethodRequest = new PaymentMethodRequest()
.customerId(customer.getId())
.paymentMethodNonce(nonceFromTheClient);
Result<? extends PaymentMethod> result = gateway.paymentMethod().create(request);