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This was extracted from app/controllers/OrderController.php.
There are a few steps taking place here:
1. We validate that the account and items details have been provided.
2. We create an order item, and assign it to the prodded account.
3. We json_decode() the provided items and return an error if an invalid format has been
provided.
4. We create individual order items for each provided item, and add the total value up.
5. We pass this value, and the order to a GateWayInterface class (which we’ll create in a bit).
6. If this pay() method returns true; we create a document (with the DocumentInterface we’re
about to make) and send it (with the MessengerInterface we’re also about to make).
7. Finally we return a status of ok.
The main purpose of this endpoint is to create the order (and order items) while passing the payment
off to the service provider classes.
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It would obviously be better to separate these tasks into their own classes/methods but there’s
simply not time for that sort of thing. Feel free to do it in your own application!
Working The Service Provider
This leaves us with the service-provider part of things. I’ve gone through the motions to hook
everything up (as you might have done following on from the chapter which covered this); and
here is a list of the changes: