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James G.
James G.

Reputation: 2904

Curl error: unsupported grant_type

I'm trying to figure out the API documentation for paypal adaptive payments. So I'm trying to translate this curl command(the example):

curl https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token \
 -H "Accept: application/json" \
 -H "Accept-Language: en_US" \
 -u "EOJ2S-Z6OoN_le_KS1d75wsZ6y0SFdVsY9183IvxFyZp:EClusMEUk8e9ihI7ZdVLF5cZ6y0SFdVsY9183IvxFyZp" \
 -d "grant_type=client_credentials"

into php(the only thing not shown is my clientID and secret):

$data =
    'client_id=' . $clientID . '&' .
    'client_secret=' . $clientSecret . '&' .
    "grant_type=client_credentials";

$url = "https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token";
$headers = array(
    'Accept' => 'application/json',
    'Accept-Language' => 'en_US',
    "grant_type=client_credentials"
);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $clientID . ':' . $clientSecret);
$x = json_decode(curl_exec($ch));

var_dump($x);

this prints:

object(stdClass)#1 (2) { ["error"]=> string(22) "unsupported_grant_type" ["error_description"]=> string(22) "Unsupported grant_type" }

What am I messing up? Any pointers, directives or tips? I've been studying the documentation for three days now, but it's very dry, and no good tutorials seem to exist. Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7678

Answers (2)

Félix Maroy
Félix Maroy

Reputation: 1487

I had the same problem and here's how I got the Token

public function getToken(){

        $curl = curl_init("https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token");

        curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
            CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
            CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
            CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "grant_type=client_credentials",
            CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
                "Content-Type: application/json",
                "Authorization: Basic ". base64_encode("$clientApi:$clientSecret")
            ),
        ));

        $response = curl_exec($curl);
        $no_json = json_decode($response, true);
        if (!curl_errno($curl)) {

            switch ($http_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE)) {
                case 200:
                    return $no_json['access_token'];
                    break;
                default:
                    return $no_json;
            }
        }

        curl_close($curl);

    }

Upvotes: 1

James G.
James G.

Reputation: 2904

I'm not sure why, and I'd still accept any answer that can explain why, but replacing json_encode($data) with "grant_type=client_credentials" fixed my problem. I guess I'm still confused about JSON, because it appears to work without that.

It's now giving the answer it is supposed to give. I'll be back in a couple days when I'm incredibly confused again ;) the paypal API sucks.

Upvotes: 5

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