Support for the Mollie Reseller API

[wouterroos]

Hi,

Do you plan on supporting the Reseller API any time soon? We're currently doing a project on which we plan to use your abstraction in order to interface with the Mollie API, but we also need access to the Reseller API.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Wouter Roos

[Viincenttt]

Hi Wouterroos,

Unfortunatly I am not a reseller, so I do not have access to the reseller API. This means I would have no way to test the reseller API myself.

Kind regards,
Vincent

[Viincenttt]

I would like to add that if you or someone else can implement the reseller API and create a pull request, I will merge it into the main branch.

[wouterroos]

Great! We have it planned for next week. The plan is to use the same programming model as MollieApi, so I will create a pull request when we're done.

[Viincenttt]

Great, I am looking forward to your pull request :)

[Viincenttt]

Hi wouterroos,

Is there any update regarding the Reseller API? Are you running into any issues with the Mollie Api code?

Kind regards,
Vincent

[wouterroos]

Hi @Viincenttt,

We're currently running an implementation of the ResellerClient, inspired by the programming model/project structure you used in the MollieApi package. This should make a pull request towards this repository trivial. However, at the moment we've only implemented the API operations we need for our project, so there is some work to be done there before we can create a proper pull request into your repository. We did however create a generic BaseClient which makes implementing those operations as easy as defining them on the IResellerClient interface, creating the accompanying Model classes with the proper [XmlElementAttributes] for mapping and invoking a generic POST method on the BaseClient.
When attempting to integration test our current implementation, we've noticed that this is quite difficult to do, mostly due to the way Mollie built the API. The 'test mode' capability for this API are limited to the account-create action, so any other tests would have to be executed against a 'live' environment, which is difficult to obtain since Mollie 'verifies' each account to make sure it's linked to a valid an existing company. All this makes it difficult to guarantee quality on the code we've written so far.
We've contacted Mollie on what their plans are as to improve testing capabilities, but their response was: 'Good idea, we'll forward it to our devs', so I'm not expecting anything from their side any time soon.

Do you have any ideas on how we can approach these issues?

[Viincenttt]

Hi wouterroos,

Thank you for your reply. I have encountered the exact same issues as you regarding the testing capabilities of the Mollie API. Not all of the Mollie API's/API methods can be tested using a test api key. This also makes it impossible to write integration tests for some of the API methods. Unfortunatly I haven't found a solution for this.

Please let me know if you need any help regarding the implementation of the Reseller API.

Kind regards,
Vincent

[kurtwilbies]

Dear Wouterroos and Viincentt,

Is there any update? Can I help you with these or other issues?

Cheers,

[wouterroos]

@kurtwilbies Hi,

Unfortunately, I did not yet find the time to create a pull request. What I propose we do is that I commit our code 'as is' (that is, with only the operations we currently use implemented) and maybe we could split the workload of implementing the other operations?

[kurtwilbies]

Hi @wouterroos ,

IWell, you could share your code, a link or dropbox. And could you provide some docs. Then I can implement those operations.

[wouterroos]

Hi,

I'm currently investigating the possibility to create a pull request. One of the 'issues' I'm having is that some of the code we use is not compatible with netstandard1.2. @Viincenttt would it be an issue to upgrade the netstandard version to something more recent? Initial testing indicates that netstandard1.3 should work (with some additional NuGet packages), but perhaps migrating to netstandard2.0 is also an option?

[wouterroos]

Hi,

Please see #87 for a preliminary pull request of our changes. This is a 1:1 copy of our current (local) implementation so there might be some stuff that needs to be changed. Please note that this PR also incorporates a solution for #86 . Feedback is welcome, if any changes need to be done please let me know.

[kurtwilbies]

@wouterroos,

Thanks, I'll review your request asp

[Viincenttt]

The Reseller API has been deprecated:

The Reseller API has been deprecated. Only selected partners still have access to this legacy functionality. As an alternative, we recommend using Mollie Connect and the Mollie v2 API.
Source: https://docs.mollie.com/reference/reseller-api/guides/overview