Using the PayPal API with my Laravel 5.2 install, specifically this package: https://github.com/anouarabdsslm/laravel-paypalpayment
The package works great! and I am taking payments perfectly! I am struggling to catch and redirect when incorrect details e.g. bank card details are entered by a user. The Laravel application just throws a 400 error.
What I am wanting to do is catch the errors and redirect back and notify the user.
The code below is where I make a request:
try {
// ### Create Payment
// Create a payment by posting to the APIService
// using a valid ApiContext
// The return object contains the status;
$payment->create($this->_apiContext);
} catch (\PPConnectionException $ex) {
return Redirect::back()->withErrors([$ex->getMessage() . PHP_EOL]);
}
dd($payment);
When a successful payment is made I get a nice return object that I can reference and action accordingly, when there is an issue like a 400 error it kills the application completely and DOES NOT catch and redirect the errors back to the user.
The error code messages are:
PayPalConnectionException in PayPalHttpConnection.php
Got Http response code 400 when accessing
https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/payments/payment.
Has anyone faced similar issues with the PayPal PHP API?
I know when the application isn't in dev mode I can have error pages specifically to catch certain error codes. But I really want to catch errors and redirect back to the form with notifications for the user.
Thanks in advance to any wizard who can help.
Right guys,
I posted the answer here: Laravel 5 catching 400 response from PayPal API but I want to make sure anyone hitting this thread knows how I solved the issue!
It would appear that Laravel's default Exception method was interfering with the PayPal API PayPalConnectionException. So I modified the code to catch general Exception errors only as it contained all required error objects. The \ before Exception was critical! as it needs the correct namespace (in my case anyway, your application may be different).
try {
// ### Create Payment
// Create a payment by posting to the APIService
// using a valid ApiContext
// The return object contains the status;
$payment->create($this->_apiContext);
} catch (\Exception $ex) {
return Redirect::back()->withErrors([$ex->getData()])->withInput(Input::all());
}
This link that @rchatburn posted was highly useful, the application always seemed to catch at the point \Exception and NOT \PayPalConnectionException once I had everything namespaced correctly.
In my investigations I came across app/Exceptions/Handler.php. Here you can extend the render method to grab a PayPalConnectionException and handle the errors uniquely to that specific exception . See code:
//Be sure to include the exception you want at the top of the file
use PayPal\Exception\PayPalConnectionException;//pull in paypal error exception to work with
public function render($request, Exception $e)
{
//check the specific exception
if ($e instanceof PayPalConnectionException) {
//return with errors and with at the form data
return Redirect::back()->withErrors($e->getData())->withInput(Input::all());
}
return parent::render($request, $e);
}
Either work great, but for me it felt neater to just change the catch method to a lookout for a general Exception, where I am testing if a payment was successful.
Hope this helps anyone facing similar issues :D!!!
Nick.
If you want The JSON details of your API call you can ADD the following code.
try {
// ### Create Payment
// Create a payment by posting to the APIService
// using a valid ApiContext
// The return object contains the status;
$payment->create($this->_apiContext);
} catch (\Exception $ex) {
return dd($ex->getData());
exit(1);
}
Hope it helps you
