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Amazon Pay - how to get authorization decline codes

Working through integration guide step 7 found here which states the codes will be found in the response when an authorization is declined

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So I'm just printing out the response to the console but all see is an Amazon payment response object? I request an authorization in step 6 of the integration guide like so

response = client.authorize(
        amazon_order_reference_id=session['order_reference_id'],
        authorization_reference_id=rand(),
        authorization_amount=totalamount,
        transaction_timeout=0,
        capture_now=True)
print('authorize response ',response)

What I get in the console is authorize response <amazon_pay.payment_response.PaymentResponse object at 0x7f7f9494b8d0>

How do I get the actual decline codes (invalid payment, transaction timeout, etc..) from the response object? I'm simulating transaction timeout with one of the preconfigured cards in the sandbox...

Solution

  • The print function is printing the object it self because there's no string definition for it.

    As per Amazon SDK example for python, to get what response is, try this:

    pretty_authorize = json.dumps(json.loads(response.to_json()), indent = 4 )

print(pretty_authorize)

    This will print the entire object in a pretty json format, this will help you debug properly.

    There are more options like to_dict and stuff, you can look at Amazon Pay's payment_response.py to know about other options.