How to add `PayPal-Request-Id` header to button? about paypal-js HOT 8 CLOSED

hi @olfek, I'm going to go ahead and close this issue since your original question was answered. If you are still having problems with the sandbox environment, please don't hesitate to open a new issue. Thanks!

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@gregjopa do you know how to do this? 🙂

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The workaround I'm using for now is to save subscriptionID and then use actions.subscription.revise when subscriptionID exists.

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If the user reloads the page, the saved subscriptionID will be lost and a new duplicate subscription will be created.

PayPal-Request-Id can be made constant across sessions by using the users details.

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Hi @olfek, my recommendation is to create the subscription on the server. That way you can pass the paypal-request-id with the api call and persist the subscriptionID and paypal-request-id together on your back-end. The actions.subscription.* helpers are only there for people that do not have server-side code. Ex:

// create the subscription on your server and return the id https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/subscriptions/v1/#subscriptions_create
paypal.Buttons({
    createSubscription: function() {
        return fetch('/your-server/subscription/create/', {
            method: 'post'
        }).then(function(res) {
            return res.json();
        }).then(function(subscriptionData) {
            return subscriptionData.id;
        });
    },

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hi @gregjopa unfortunately I can't do that, at this point in the flow, I don't have a record of the user in the db where I can save their subscription ID for future reference.

the flow is:
sign up form + paypal subscribe ➡️ create user record

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I think I'll continue using this workaround #390 (comment) for now

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This is unrelated to this issue, but I don't know where else I can report it, PayPal keeps logging me out every few minutes (and requires 2FA again).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28586586/get-paypal-sandbox-to-remain-signed-in-for-longer-than-5-minutes

Could you perhaps forward this internally to someone relevant? It's making PayPal integration and testing much harder than it should be, I'm actually considering switching to Stripe because of it.

@gregjopa

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