[ic] Verifone IPCharge

Bill Carr bill at bottlenose-wine.com
Fri Mar 20 20:43:48 UTC 2009


On Mar 20, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Mike Heins wrote:

> Quoting Richard Siddall (richard.siddall at elirion.net):
>> Mike Heins wrote:
>>> Remember too, that the very nature of Business::OnlinePayment means
>>> that you have the potential to be adding new parameters all the  
>>> time, as you
>>> add payment modules. You have to pass them along somehow.
>>>
>>
>> I'm aware of that.  I believe Ivan Kohler was aware of it too when he
>> provided a way of passing additional parameters to the
>> Business::OnlinePayment constructor.
>>
>>> Passing *all* of $opt along means a chance of conflict. So the  
>>> mappable
>>> extra parameters seems ideal to me. The alternative is hacking on
>>> the module code all the time, which seems non-optimal to me.
>>>
>>
>> I don't see why you'd have to hack on the module code if you already
>> have a way of passing extra parameters.  Adding a second way of  
>> doing it
>> just bloats the code.
>
> Obviously you don't know the Interchange way. Bloat 'R us. 8-)
>
> You may be right, but maybe not. It could be that the current
> way of doing it is what should be removed.
>
> There is no way to remap or account for conflicting key names the way
> that is provided. If we are going to use this as a main payment  
> method I
> think a little flexibility is required. All it would take is for one  
> of
> the payment modules to require "gateway" as a parameter, and it is
> broken. Doesn't sound like a good solution to me.
I'm going to weigh in on this but I'm trying to remember what got me  
here. I know I was having a hard time getting some required parameters  
from IC to IPCharge.

Bill Carr
Bottlenose - Wine & Spirits eBusiness Specialists
(413) 584-0400
http://www.bottlenose-wine.com



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