Hello All,

I'd like to know if any of you have successfuly used PayPal API (SOAP) with 
SOAP::Lite.

I gave Business::PayPal::API a try but it has several limitations, although 
it works. However, that module builds the SOAP::Lite request in a somehow 
dirty way. The author actually put a note saying that the module exists only 
until he figures out how the support for WSDL in SOAP::Lite works.

Well, I'm having that exact problem: I can't figure it out how the support 
for WSDL in SOAP::Lite works with PayPal. I've been reading a lot in the 
manual and visited soaplite.com looking for more information, and I 
understood a lot of how it works with WSDL, but I'm still stuck with the 
PayPal WSDL case. It doesn't seem to work in the same way that soaplite.com 
explains. The website has very simple examples, though. The fact is that, 
the more I read about SOAP and WSDL, the more I want to get it working. I 
find WSDL really amazing in several areas.

According to soaplite.com, this should work:

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use strict;
use warnings;
use SOAP::Lite;
use Data::Dumper;

my $soap = new SOAP::Lite
-> service('https://www.paypal.com/wsdl/PayPalSvc.wsdl');

$soap-> SetExpressCheckout (
	OrderTotal =>  '50',
	ReturnURL =>  'https://dev.secure.galeza.com/cart.cgi?action=return',
	CancelURL =>  'https://dev.secure.galeza.com/cart.cgi?action=cancel',
	Username =>  'my_paypal_sandbox_username',
	Password =>  'my_paypal_sandbox_password',
	Signature =>  'my_paypal_sandbox_signature',
	Version =>  '2.0',
);

print Data::Dumper-> Dump([\$soap], [qw(PayPalAPI)]);
------------------------

But, I still don't get a clue that tell's me what I'm doing wrong. The call 
to Data::Dumper in the example, I'm using it only to analyze what is 
happening in the object. It has a '500 Server Error' in every request. In my 
experience, PayPal's SOAP server returns 500 server errors only when the 
request is not properly built (including wrong headers).

I just don't know if I'm using workng SOAP::Lite, or I'm building wrong my 
method call, or I'm sending the wrong way the parameters, or what. So, 
please, if any of you have experience with this, I'll really appreciate your 
help and comments. I'll really do. :-)

I already got working all I need with the NVP (name-value pairs) API server 
(really simple, just backstage HTTP post requests). But I can't get out of 
my mind that I want to really understand and get it working with the SOAP 
server. I do *not* want to just say 'I didn't get it, let's move on'. I 
guess that's something that many of you will understand very well. Others 
will take me by crazy. :-)


Thank you all for your time and help.


Best regards,

Paco Zarabozo





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