887996 - Inform user when Bango purchase POST gets aborted

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Payments/Refunds, defect, P3)

Description

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

STR
- open Marketplace dev
- search for :paid
- purchase an app
- create/confirm PIN
- confirm mobile number via SMS (if necessary)
- on purchase confirmation page, get ready to click buy
- make a phone call to the device you are using to pay from
- *before* the phone call is received, click the final buy button on Bango's page so that when the request begins the phone call interrupts it

Expected: in the scenario that the POST is aborted, Bango should show a message saying "you have not been charged, try again"
Actual: you see the same purchase confirmation page but there is no user message

Note how this is one of many scenarios. This bug is only for when the POST does *not* go through. Bango should be able to detect this by checking if the request was aborted via Ajax.

If the POST does go through, we can handle that scenario ok with package-configured event notices (see bug 865612)

Comment 1

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

Note that Bango's work on bug 845528 should prevent duplicate payments, we just want to inform the user better.

Comment 2

[Simone]

This cannot be implemented because once a POST is fired to charge the user we have no way to stop and guarantee that the user has not been charged.

Comment 3

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

Ah, yes, in re-reading the bug I think you are correct. Even if you catch the XHR abort event it wouldn't be very meaningful.