WebService::Braintree - A Client Library for wrapping the Braintree Payment Services Gateway API
This is a fork of the original vendor-issued Net::Braintree. While the original is deprecated, it continues to work. However, it contains a number of code-style and maintainability problems. This fork was produced to address some of those problems and to provide a community driven basis for going forward.
The module is fully documented, but that documentation is reverse-engineered. The public facing API is very similar to the Ruby libraries which are documented at https://developers.braintreepayments.com/ruby/sdk/server/overview.
You can also look over the test suite for guidance of usage, especially the
t/sandbox
tests. Not all of these tests work (ones marked
todo_skip
). This is because they are an adaptation of code used against
Braintree's private integration server.
As of version 0.94, with appropriate manual intervention for your sandbox
account (documented in t/sandbox/README
), more of the sandbox tests
run/pass for this module than for the original module Net::Braintree.
As of January, 2018, Braintree released a large refactoring to how clients interact with the Braintre API. They call the different class (old-style) vs. object (new-style). Under the old style, configuration is global and all the interactions with the API use the same configuration. Under the new style, each call could use a new configuration, if needed.
Both styles will be supported for the foreseeable future. Clients can still set a global configuration and use the class interface, just like before.
In the documentation below, everything applies to both styles, except where otherwise noted. If there is a difference between them, an exmaple of both will be provided.
In general, clients of this library will not instantiate any objects. Every call you make will be a class method. Some methods will return objects. In those cases, those objects will be documented for you.
Unless otherwise noted, all attributes in these objects will be read-only and will have been populated by the responses from Braintree.
If you use the object style, then you will instantiate and manage instances of gateway objects. Each gateway object will have its own configuration.
You will need to set some configuration. Please see "" in WebService::Braintree::Configuration for details.
use WebService::Braintree;
my $conf = WebService::Braintree->configuration;
$conf->environment( 'sandbox' );
$conf->merchant_id( 'use_your_merchant_id' );
$conf->public_key( 'use_your_public_key' );
$conf->private_key( 'use_your_private_key' );
my $result = WebService::Braintree::Transaction->sale(
...
);
use WebService::Braintree;
my $gateway = WebService::Braintree::Gateway->new({
environment => 'sandbox',
merchant_id => 'use_your_merchant_id',
public_key => 'use_your_public_key',
private_key => 'use_your_private_key',
});
my $result = $gateway->transaction->sale(
...
);
In general, your server code (that uses this library) will be interacting with a client-side SDK (such as for Mobile or Javascript). That library will need a client token in order to interact with Braintree. This token will be all the client-side needs, regardless of whether your server is pointing at the sandbox or to production.
This token is created with "generate" in WebService::Braintree::ClientToken.
The object interface is described on each of the gateway classes. In general,
they are identical to the class interface described below, with the change that
you have invoked a method on a generic $gateway
object instead of using
the class.
q.v. WebService::Braintree::Gateway for more information.
These are the classes that you will interface with. Please see their respective documentation for more detail on how to use them. These classes only provide class methods. These methods all invoke some part of the Braintree API.
List all plan add-ons.
Create, update, delete, and find addresses.
List, register, and unregister ApplePay domains.
Generate client tokens. These are used for client-side SDKs to take actions.
Create, update, delete, and find credit cards.
Find and list credit card verifications.
Create, update, delete, and find customers.
List all plan discounts.
Accept, and find disputes.
Manage document uploads.
Find Europe Bank Accounts.
Find IdealPayment payment methods.
Provision merchants from "raw ApplePay".
Create, update, and find merchant accounts.
Create, update, delete, and find payment methods.
Create, update, delete, and find payment method nonces.
Find and update PayPal accounts.
List all subscription plans.
Generate settlement batch summaries.
Create, update, cancel, find, and handle charges for subscriptions.
Create, manage, and search for transactions. This is the workhorse class and it has many methods.
Find all the transaction line-items.
Manage the transparent redirection of ????.
NOTE: This class needs significant help in documentation.
Find US Bank Accounts.
Several of the interfaces provide a search()
method. This method
is unique in that it takes a subroutine reference (subref) instead of a hashref
or other parameters.
my $results = WebService::Braintree::Transaction->search(sub {
my $search = shift;
$search->amount->between(10, 20);
});
The various field types are documenated at WebService::Braintree::AdvancedSearchNodes.
Responses from the interface methods will either be a
Result or an
ErrorResult. You can distinguish between
them by calling $result->is_success
.
If the request is successful, Braintee will reply back and you will receive (in most cases) a "WebService::Braintree::Result" in result object. This object will allow you to access the various components of the response.
In some cases, you will receive something different. Those cases are documented in the method itself.
If there is an issue with the request, Braintree will reply back and you will receive a "WebService::Braintree::ErrorResult" in ErrorResult object. It will contain a "WebService::Braintree::ValidationErrorCollection" in collection of "WebService::Braintree::Error" in errors explaining each issue with the request.
The bugtracker is at https://github.com/singingfish/braintree_perl/issues.
Patches welcome!
Contributions are welcome. The process:
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Submissions
Please fork this repository on Github, create a branch, then submit a pull request from that branch to the master of this repository. All other submissions will be summarily rejected.
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Developer Environment
We use Docker to encapsulate the developer environment. There is a Bash script in the root called
run_tests
that provides an entrypoint to how this project uses Docker. The sequence is:-
run_tests build
This will build the Docker developer environment for each Perl version listed in
PERL_VERSIONS
-
run_tests unit [ command ]
This will run the unit tests for each Perl version listed in
PERL_VERSIONS
. You can provide aprove
command to limit which test(s) you run. -
run_tests integration [ command ]
This will run the sandbox tests for each Perl version listed in
PERL_VERSIONS
. You can provide aprove
command to limit which test(s) you run. -
run_tests cover
This will run the all the tests for each Perl version listed in
PERL_VERSIONS
and calculate the coverage.
You can optionally select a Perl version or versions (5.10 through 5.24) to run the command against by setting the
PERL_VERSIONS
environment variable. Use a space to separate multiple versions.This Bash script has been tested to work in Linux, OSX, and GitBash on Windows.
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Signup
Navigate to https://www.braintreepayments.com/sandbox. Enter your first name, last name, Company name of "WebService::Braintree", your country, and your email address.
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Activate your account
You will receive an email to the address you provided which will contain a link. Click on it and you'll sent to a page where you will be asked for a password.
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Create a sandbox_config.json
On the dashboard page of your new sandbox account, three are three values you will need to put into a
sandbox_config.json
. The format of the file must be:{ "merchant_id": "<< value 1 >>", "public_key": "<< value 2 >>", "private_key": "<< value 3 >>" }
replacing what's in the double-quotes with the appropriate values from your Braintree sandbox's dashboard.
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Link your Paypal Sandbox Account
You'll need to follow the instructions at https://developers.braintreepayments.com/guides/paypal/testing-go-live/ruby#linked-paypal-testing. This is required for some of the integration tests to pass.
Within Setting > Processing, select "Link your sandbox" within the PayPal section.
Once at the Paypal Developer Dashboard:
- My Apps & Credentials
- Rest Apps
- Create new App
- Give it a name
- Copy the information requested back to Braintree
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Run the tests
You can now run the integration tests with
run_tests integration
. These tests will take between 5 and 20 minutes.
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- Many of the integration tests are still skipped.
- There aren't enough unit tests.
- The documentation is still sparse, especially for the PURPOSE sections.
Thanks to the staff at Braintree for endorsing this fork.
Thanks to ZipRecruiter for sponsoring improvements to the forked code.
Thanks to Rob Kinyon for refactoring significant portions of the codebase.
Copyright 2017 Kieren Diment zarquon@cpan.org
Copyright 2011-2014 Braintree, a division of PayPal, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.