Paypal Rest API激活结算方案

Question

I am trying to activate a billing plan that is previously created and I get the malformed json error.

Activate endpoint:

"/v1/payments/billing-plans/{plan-id}"

Request body:

[

   {

      "path": "",

      "value": {

         "state": "ACTIVE"

      },

      "op": "replace"

   }

]

In PHP:

$payLoad = json_encode(array(array(
    'path' => "",
    'value' => array(
        'state' => 'ACTIVE'
    ),
    'op' => 'replace'

)));

And the response I get:

{"name":"MALFORMED_REQUEST","message":"Incoming JSON request does not map to API request"....}

Edit: I have also tried path to have a value of "/"

"path": "\/",

but to no avail.

Answer 1

Sorry if this answer is a little late but I had the same issue recently and thought I'd share the solution for anyone else who may run into it.

If you plan on using the PHP SDK for recurring payment (plan) PATCH calls the source needs altering slightly.

It's caused by line 56 in PPHttpConnection.php, the switch statement only attaches post fields if the method is POST. However, PATCH requests also send a payload and therefore also require post fields to be added, without them the API returns a malformed JSON error as it's not receiving any content.

switch($this->httpConfig->getMethod()) {
        case 'POST':
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
            break;                     
}

Change the above to:

 switch($this->httpConfig->getMethod()) {
        case 'POST':
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
            break; 
        case 'PATCH':
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
            break;           
}

The PATCH call should then work perfectly!