How do you get the shipping address back from an Adaptive Payment API call? - paypal

Question

How are you supposed to get the shipping info back from a Parallel Payment, using PayPal's Adaptive API system? Normally it would just get passed back as payer_country, etc - when the IPN script is requested. However, this doesn't seem to be the case.
Here are the params being passed in when the IPN script is called:
transaction[0].amount
transaction[0].id
verify_sign
transaction[1].receiver
reverse_all_parallel_payments_on_error
transaction[1].pending_reason
transaction[0].pending_reason
transaction[1].id_for_sender_txn
transaction[0].invoiceId
payment_request_date
test_ipn
cancel_url
charset
return_url
transaction[0].status_for_sender_txn
ipn_notification_url
transaction[1].is_primary_receiver
transaction[1].status
transaction_type
transaction[1].amount
transaction[0].status
log_default_shipping_address_in_transaction
transaction[0].receiver
status
transaction[0].id_for_sender_txn
action_type
fees_payer
pay_key
transaction[1].status_for_sender_txn
transaction[0].paymentType
transaction[1].invoiceId
transaction[1].id
sender_email
notify_version
transaction[1].paymentType
transaction[0].is_primary_receiver
If I then do a PaymentDetails API call, I get back stuff like:
$VAR1 = {
'currencyCode' => 'USD',
'responseEnvelope' => {
'correlationId' => '9944330ab9a8c',
'timestamp' => '2014-04-07T06:08:16.094-07:00',
'ack' => 'Success',
'build' => '10273932'
},
'status' => 'COMPLETED',
'senderEmail' => 'andy.aaaa#ultranerds.co.uk',
'cancelUrl' => 'http://somesite.net/paypal/cancel.html',
'paymentInfoList' => {
'paymentInfo' => [
{
'pendingRefund' => 'false',
'receiver' => {
'accountId' => 'NY3AD33DD739C',
'email' => 'andy-xxx#ultranerds.com',
'amount' => '65.00',
'invoiceId' => '1022',
'primary' => 'false',
'paymentType' => 'GOODS'
},
'transactionId' => '8E1114341X895213Y',
'senderTransactionStatus' => 'COMPLETED',
'senderTransactionId' => '5EV71352C33256006',
'transactionStatus' => 'COMPLETED',
'refundedAmount' => '0.00'
},
{
'pendingRefund' => 'false',
'receiver' => {
'accountId' => 'YYP5C69YWCMKE',
'email' => 'andy.yyy#gmail.com',
'amount' => '15.00',
'invoiceId' => '1023',
'primary' => 'false',
'paymentType' => 'GOODS'
},
'transactionId' => '68H86656UP574062X',
'senderTransactionStatus' => 'COMPLETED',
'senderTransactionId' => '2XW88939LK1112523',
'transactionStatus' => 'COMPLETED',
'refundedAmount' => '0.00'
}
]
},
'feesPayer' => 'EACHRECEIVER',
'actionType' => 'CREATE',
'ipnNotificationUrl' => 'http://somesite.net/paypal/test_ipn.cgi',
'sender' => {
'useCredentials' => 'false',
'accountId' => 'B74RBM5F6SLZG',
'email' => 'andy.aaa#ultranerds.co.uk'
},
'returnUrl' => 'http://somesite.net/paypal/success.html',
'payKey' => 'AP-4EK17906VB6613533',
'reverseAllParallelPaymentsOnError' => 'false'
};
As you can see, there is no reference to the delivery address at all. How are you supposed to get that info back?
UPDATE: Mmm ok, so it looks like GetShippingAddresses is what I need - but for some reason its coming back with nothing in when I call it:
{"requestEnvelope":{"errorLanguage":"en_US","detailLevel":"ReturnAll"},"key":"AP-1B1377463N9785350"} /GetShippingAddresses_API_Operation/
...simply returns:
{
'responseEnvelope' => {
'correlationId' => '3a4443aed09c9',
'timestamp' => '2014-04-07T06:40:35.460-07:00',
'ack' => 'Success',
'build' => '10273932'
}
}
I'm a bit baffled as to why its doing that. Any suggestions?
I found a quote here:
http://go.developer.ebay.com/devzone/articles/using-paypals-adaptive-payments-and-google-app-engine-build-online-market-python-part-3
Unfortunately, although this follows the process recommended by
PayPal's documentation, it doesn't work. There's currently a bug in
PayPal's Adaptive Payments implementation. For a traditional payment,
the shipping address is not collected; for embedded payments, the
GetShippingAddresses call does not return the shipping address.
PayPal has acknowledged the bug and indicated that it expects to have
this fixed in April 2011. If you need shipping addresses right now,
the recommendation is to collect them on your site rather than relying
on the PayPal API.
That was from 2011... but is this still the case??
Sorry to bump - but has anyone got any suggestions?

Answer 1

Ok, well I got my answer - but unfortunately its not what I was hoping for:
Yes, unfortunately this feature is only available for embedded payment
flow.
https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/adaptive-payments/ht_ap-embeddedPayment-curl-etc/
If you're using embedded payment flow, then you can retrieve the
address on their PayPal account by passing in
senderOptions.requireShippingAddressSelection = true during
SetPaymentOption API call. You can then retrieve it via
GetShippingAddresses API call.
So it looks like really what I need to do, is ask the user to provide their shipping information BEFORE sending them to paypal, then storing it. Not ideal - but I guess you just have to work with what you got!