krupa raj[:krupa] Reporter
	Description • 13 years ago

Fail gracefully when PayPal is down. We should just show notify something similar to what we show for Contributions ("There was an error communicating with PayPal.Please try again later")

	Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]
	Comment 1 • 13 years ago

Is there anything we can do to catch this?

	Andy McKay
	Comment 2 • 13 years ago

There are two steps in the PayPal purchase process. We call PayPal's API to get a payment key. If that fails a PayPal error is raised. We can simulate this easily by throwing in an error.

For example try a raise PaypalError at the beginning of this method:

https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/blob/master/apps/paypal/__init__.py#L131

It would be worth doing that just to double check.

And see also:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710798

If that passes we fire up the iframe. Once we've started the PayPal flow we are at paypals's mercy and there's almost we can do with errors at this point. Unless you can find a way to monitor the status of an iframe across a domain. I think yesterday this is the error we were seeing and I've no idea what we can do with it.

	Andy McKay
	Comment 3 • 13 years ago

bug 710798 covers what we need for the beta.

	Wil Clouser [:clouserw]
	Comment 4 • 10 years ago

Thanks for filing this.  Due to resource constraints we are closing bugs which we won't realistically be able to fix.  If you have a patch that applies to this bug please reopen.

For more info see http://micropipes.com/blog/2014/09/24/the-great-add-on-bug-triage/