When processing a payment, can I get back the Transaction ID, etc?

[MLyons10]

I can't seem to find a way to do this anywhere, is anyone able to tell me how I might do this? I would like to log this for my records.

[jziaja]

Hi @MLyons10, the transaction ID can be found via the related_resources property of each transaction associated with a payment.

Here's a code sample of how to get the transaction ID for a sale payment, along with how it looks using the sample project:

var payment = Payment.Get(apiContext, "PAY-89W644977H834061FKTDRCCY");
var transactionId = payment.transactions[0].related_resources[0].sale.id;

[MLyons10]

Thank you very much for your help. That works perfectly.

Am I able to get detailed information when an error is returned? I see that I get a 400 Error, but I was hoping to be able to get some detail as to what actually is the issue... I can't for the life of me figure out what is causing it to return an error...

Thanks for your help.

[jziaja]

Yes, depending on where the 400 Error is encountered, a PaymentsException may be thrown and includes a Details property that provides quick access to the cause of the error. Otherwise, an HttpException will be thrown (which PaymentsException inherits off of), and includes a Response property that contains the response from the server.

An easy way to test this in the samples is to inject bogus data into an object and view the details of the exception that is thrown. In the run below, I changed the sample for making a PayPal payment so the transactions[0].amount.details.tax value was set to the letter 'a', thus resulting in a 400 error response and a PaymentsException being thrown by the SDK:

[jziaja]

I should also mention that if you do get an error that you're having trouble understanding (some of the errors can be quite cryptic), sharing the debug_id contained in the error response with us here will allow our team to look up the specific details of what caused the error.

[jziaja]

Closing this issue as the questions have been answered. Let me know if there's anything else you need help with. :)