[checkoutpaypal] what is the purpose of GalleryCheckoutPaypalIPNHelper

anonimlt

Joined: 2010-02-11
Posts: 26
Posted: Fri, 2010-02-26 07:20

I have written a new payment gateway module partially based on the paypal module. What is the purpose of the GalleryCheckoutPaypalIPNHelper? I can see that this class saves some data received from paypal, but I cannot find where this data can is readable by the user.
In my case I receive data back from the payment gateway in the IPN message: name, surname of the payer as it was returned from the online banking system, payment mode- name of the online banking system, webmoney account or other payment collecting organisation, such as supermarket chain. I would like to have an ability to see these data somewhere. I write the data in the same way as in paypal module, but how an administrator can read these data?
 
alecmyers

Joined: 2006-08-01
Posts: 4342
Posted: Fri, 2010-02-26 11:50
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What is the purpose of the GalleryCheckoutPaypalIPNHelper? I can see that this class saves some data received from paypal...

The class isn't used at present. It doesn't set any data though, it just returns it.

If you're using checkoutpaypal as a model, make sure to use

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class GalleryMyNewCheckoutPaypalIPN extends GalleryChildEntity {

instead of

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class GalleryMyNewCheckoutPaypalIPN extends GalleryEntity {

which is a historical defect in checkoutpaypal that would need to be fixed before you can do much useful with the IPNData that's recorded. I haven't done this because I can't think of anything useful to do with the data, at present. But that may change in the future.