Authorize.net create ARB and get Id

Question

When I create a new ARB subscription the response comes back and I save the id it gives us. I tried it out and it gives us back "33".

Then when the silent post callback hits our method, the response has a different id, 15631016.

15631016 is correct in matching up with the one we see in the authorize.net online portal.

So, what is 33 and why doesn't it return the real ARB ID?

Here is the code that creates the new ARB and then gets the arbId:

net.authorize.arb.Transaction arbTransaction = createARBTransaction(startDate.getTime(), creditCard, member, splitOccurrences.intValue() - 1, splitUnit, useBillingAddress, billingAddress, recurringOrder.getTotalAmount().doubleValue(), recurringOrder);

net.authorize.arb.Result<?> arbResult = (net.authorize.arb.Result<?>) merchant.postTransaction(arbTransaction);

String arbId;
if (arbResult.isOk()) {
   arbId = arbResult.getResultSubscriptionId();
}

If getResultSubscriptionId() is not the correct way to get the new ARB subscription ID, what is the correct method to use?

Ok, I solved this. The posted code is working correctly. The problem was that later in the code the ARB ID was incorrectly getting changed to an incorrect non related value... woops! Too many late night coding... What is the best way to resolve a question like this? — Mechlar, Mar 29 '13 at 03:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 21 '13 at 00:01

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I went through the sample code and also their community and there isn't much to go on. The only thing I can think of trying is changing:

arbResult.getResultSubscriptionId();

to:

arbTransaction.getResultSubscriptionId();

I know that doesn't sound logical but it's the best I can some up with.

answered Feb 21 '13 at 00:01

John Conde

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The sample code is confusing, because it appears to use different code than the authorize.net Java SDK that I presume UpHelix is using from the code that was posted. – Omn Mar 29 '13 at 02:20

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 29 '13 at 02:15

According to the source code, you are using the correct method.

If you trace the calls back into the code you'll see that the subscription id gets set by the following call in importResponseMessages() of net.authorize.arb.Result

getElementText(txn.getCurrentResponse().getDocumentElement(),AuthNetField.ELEMENT_SUBSCRIPTION_ID.getFieldName());

so if you call this on your arbResult variable, you might get closer. Note that txn should be replaced by your variable arbTransaction.

Alternatively, you can dig into the response itself to see why the Authorize.net APK isn't returning the correct subscription id.

xml = arbTransaction.getCurrentResponse().dump(true);

The true determines whether the XML tree is collapsed. xml should be a string containing your XML response from authorize.net

Authorize.net create ARB and get Id

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