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PayPal - Find Completed Sales

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List payments and find completed payments (sales transactions). Get the sales id, state, and total amount for each.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

#  This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
#  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

#  Load our previously obtained access token. (see PayPal OAuth2 Access Token)
$jsonToken = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/paypal.json")

#  Build the Authorization request header field value.
$sbAuth = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
#  token_type should be "Bearer"
$sbAuth.Append($jsonToken.StringOf("token_type"))
$sbAuth.Append(" ")
$sbAuth.Append($jsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))

#  Make the initial connection.
#  A single REST object, once connected, can be used for many PayPal REST API calls.
#  The auto-reconnect indicates that if the already-established HTTPS connection is closed,
#  then it will be automatically re-established as needed.
$rest = New-Object Chilkat.Rest
$bAutoReconnect = $true
$success = $rest.Connect("api.sandbox.paypal.com",443,$true,$bAutoReconnect)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  The code above this comment could be placed inside a function/subroutine within the application
#  because the connection does not need to be made for every request.  Once the connection is made
#  the app may send many requests..
#  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#  Clear the REST object of any headers or query params from previous requests.
$rest.ClearAllHeaders()
$rest.ClearAllQueryParams()

$rest.AddHeader("Authorization",$sbAuth.GetAsString())

#  To find sales transactions, we list payments and look for those
#  containing "sale" transactions
$rest.AddQueryParam("count","100")
$rest.AddQueryParam("start_index","0")
$rest.AddQueryParam("sort_by","update_time")
$rest.AddQueryParam("sort_order","asc")

#  Send the GET request and get the JSON response.
$sbJsonResponse = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$success = $rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("GET","/v1/payments/payment",$sbJsonResponse)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json.EmitCompact = $false
$json.LoadSb($sbJsonResponse)

#  (optional) Save the entire JSON response to a file to examine if desired..
$sbTemp = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$json.EmitSb($sbTemp)
$sbTemp.WriteFile("qa_output/paypal_payments.json","utf-8",$false)

$("Response Status Code = " + $rest.ResponseStatusCode)

#  Did we get a 200 success response?
if ($rest.ResponseStatusCode -ne 200) {
    $($json.Emit())
    $("Failed.")
    exit
}

#  We are looking for sales transactions .
#  As shown below, we are looking in the "transactions" for "related_resources"
#  containing "sale" JSON objects. 

#  	{ 
#  	  "payments": [
#  	    { 
#  	      "id": "PAY-66A12106PU3254228LA3BYKI",
#  	      "create_time": "2016-11-23T22:46:01Z",
#  	      "update_time": "2016-11-23T22:46:07Z",
#  	      "state": "approved",
#  	      "intent": "sale",
#  	      "payer": { 
#  	          ...
#  	          }
#  	        ]
#  	      },
#  	      "transactions": [
#  	        { 
#  	          ...
#  	          "related_resources": [
#  	            { 
#  	              "sale": { 
#  	                "id": "70L88278E6781074B",
#  	                "create_time": "2016-11-23T22:46:01Z",
#  	                "update_time": "2016-11-23T22:46:07Z",
#  	                "amount": { 
#  	                  "total": "7.47",
#  	                  "currency": "USD"
#  	                },
#  	                "state": "completed",
#  	                "parent_payment": "PAY-66A12106PU3254228LA3BYKI",

#  Iterate over the payments and show each sale transaction.
$jsonSale = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$numPayments = $json.SizeOfArray("payments")
$i = 0
while ($i -lt $numPayments) {

    $json.I = $i
    $j = 0
    $numTransactions = $json.SizeOfArray("payments[i].transactions")
    while ($j -lt $numTransactions) {
        $json.J = $j
        $numRelatedResources = $json.SizeOfArray("payments[i].transactions[j].related_resources")
        $k = 0
        while ($k -lt $numRelatedResources) {
            $json.K = $k
            if ($json.HasMember("payments[i].transactions[j].related_resources[k].sale") -eq $true) {

                $json.ObjectOf2("payments[i].transactions[j].related_resources[k].sale",$jsonSale)

                $("sale id: " + $jsonSale.StringOf("id"))
                $("state: " + $jsonSale.StringOf("state"))
                $("total: " + $jsonSale.StringOf("amount.total"))
                $("----")
            }

            $k = $k + 1
        }

        $j = $j + 1
    }

    $i = $i + 1
}

$("success")