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Table Of Contents
- SOAP API Developer Reference
- Contents
- What’s New
- Preface
- PayPal SOAP API Basics
- PayPal WSDL/XSD Schema Definitions
- PayPal SOAP API Definitions
- Security
- SOAP RequesterCredentials: Username, Password, Signature, and Subject
- SOAP Service Endpoints
- SOAP Request Envelope
- Request Structure
- SOAP Message Style: doc-literal
- Response Structure
- Error Responses
- CorrelationID for Reporting Problems to PayPal
- UTF-8 Character Encoding
- Date/Time Formats
- Core Currency Amount Data Type
- AddressVerify API Operation
- Authorization and Capture API Operation Reference
- DoDirectPayment API Operation
- DoNonReferencedCredit API Operation
- ExpressCheckout API Operations
- GetBalance API Operation
- GetPalDetails API Operation
- GetTransactionDetails API Operation
- ManagePendingTransactionStatus API Operation
- MassPay API Operation
- Recurring Payments and Reference Transactions API Operations
- CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile API Operation
- GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails API Operation
- ManageRecurringPaymentsProfileStatus API Operation
- BillOutstandingAmount API Operation
- UpdateRecurringPaymentsProfile API Operation
- SetCustomerBillingAgreement API Operation
- CreateBillingAgreement API Operation
- GetBillingAgreementCustomerDetails API Operation
- BAUpdate API Operation
- DoReferenceTransaction API Operation
- RefundTransaction API Operation
- TransactionSearch API Operation
- API Error Codes
- General API Errors
- Validation Errors
- DirectPayment API Errors
- SetExpressCheckout API Errors
- GetExpressCheckoutDetails API Errors
- DoExpressCheckoutPayment API Errors
- Authorization and Capture API Errors
- GetTransactionDetails API Errors
- TransactionSearch API Errors
- RefundTransaction API Errors
- MassPay API Errors
- Recurring Payments Errors
- SetCustomerBillingAgreement Errors
- GetBillingAgreementCustomerDetails Errors
- CreateBillingAgreement Errors
- UpdateBillingAgreement Errors
- DoReferenceTransaction Errors
- AddressVerify API Errors
- ManagePendingTransactionStatus API Errors
- Countries and Regions Supported by PayPal
- State and Province Codes
- Currency Codes
- AVS and CVV2 Response Codes
- About Previous Versions of the API
- Revision History
- Index
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PayPal SOAP API Basics
SOAP Message Style: doc-literal
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SOAP Message Style: doc-literal
PayPal uses doc-literal SOAP messaging, not rpc-encoding. With doc-literal, a
single service interface call passes an XML document in the request to the PayPal API server,
which responds with an XML document instance.
Response Structure
The following is an annotated description of the structure of a SOAP response from the PayPal
API where response is Success:
<?xml version=”1.0”?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENV= ”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/”
xmlns:SOAP-ENC=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/”
xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”
xmlns:xsd=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema”
xmlns:xs=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema”
xmlns:cc=”urn:ebay:apis:CoreComponentTypes”
xmlns:wsu=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/07/utility”
xmlns:saml=”urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion”
xmlns:ds=”http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#”
xmlns:wsse=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/12/secext”
xmlns:ebl=”urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents”
xmlns:ns=”urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI”>
<SOAP-ENV:Header>
<Security
xmlns=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/12/secext”
xsi:type=”wsse:SecurityType”
/>
<RequesterCredentials xmlns=”urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI”
xsi:type=”ebl:CustomSecurityHeaderType”>
<Credentials
xmlns=”urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents”
xsi:type=”ebl:UserIdPasswordType”
/>
</RequesterCredentials>
</SOAP-ENV:Header>
<SOAP-ENV:Body id=”_0”>
<specific_api_name_Response xmlns=”urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI”>
<Timestamp xmlns=”urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI”> dateTime_in_UTC/GMT
</TIMESTAMP>
<Ack xmlns=”urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents”>Success</Ack>
<Version xmlns=”urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents”>
serviceVersion
</Version>
<CorrelationId xmlns=”urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents”>