1100810 - EOY 2014 - Build a web service that fetches and caches the current balance of our PayPal account

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Foundation Communications :: Website, task)

Description

[Mavis Ou [:mavis]]

Build a web service that fetches and caches the current balance of our PayPal account.

The balance will be used to feed the counter on EOY 2014 version of fundraising.mozilla.org (see staging: http://fundraising2.mofostaging.net/ ) and potentially a banner on mozilla.org (see Bug 1086950)

This web service should return "amount" and "timeUpdated" in json format.

Comment 1

[Mavis Ou [:mavis]]

Removing flag on Simon as this bug has been triaged.

Comment 2

[Mavis Ou [:mavis]]

Attachment: GitHub PR

Comment 3

[Bobby Richter [:secretrobotron]]

Just for an update here:
- Mavis noticed that we were using the wrong API call. So, patches above are invalid.
- Waiting on PayPal to get back to us about API auth.

Comment 4

[Mavis Ou [:mavis]]

This no longer blocks Bug 1085664, as this is not a blocker for our site launch today.

Comment 5

[Mavis Ou [:mavis]]

Blocker now:

We are hoping to not use our primary PayPal credentials, since it has full privilege.  Will contact PayPal support and see if we are able to obtain a 2nd set of creds.

Comment 6

[Mavis Ou [:mavis]]

Updates:

Called PayPal tech support and it seems like there's no way to have more than 1 set of creds.

jbuck is working on setting up a database(yay our own database!) where our PayPal records can end up living. I'm going to wait for that db is in place - that way I can query the db directly instead of making endless API calls and manually calculate the total.

Comment 7

[Mavis Ou [:mavis]]

turned out we don't need to use the cache server - we are getting data from cloudfront straight