Request is not well-formed, syntactically incorrect, or violates schema.

[knutsford]

{"intent":"CAPTURE","purchase_units":{"amount":{"currency_code":"GBP","value":"3.5"}}}

is myjson

It is returning 

{"name":"INVALID_REQUEST","message":"Request is not well-formed, syntactically incorrect, or violates schema.","debug_id":"71ab5a6cf35d3","details":[{"field":"/purchase_units","location":"body","issue":"MALFORMED_REQUEST_JSON","description":"The request JSON is not well formed."}],"links":[{"href":"https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/orders/v2/#error-MALFORMED_REQUEST_JSON","rel":"information_link","encType":"application/json"}]}

This is my create function

function create_order($access_token, $Total, $Currency)
{
$ch = false;
$http_header = array
(
"Content-Type: application/json",
"Authorization: Bearer " . $access_token,
);

$post_fields = array ("intent" => "CAPTURE",
"purchase_units" =>
array (
"amount" =>
array (
"currency_code" => $Currency,
"value" => $Total
)
)
);
$jsonData = json_encode($post_fields);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com/v2/checkout/orders");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $http_header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $jsonData);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$json = json_encode($result);
print_r($jsonData);
echo $result;
curl_close($ch);
return $json;
}

[MTS_Chiranjeevi]

Good day @knutsford,

Thank you for posting to the PayPal community.

Yes, this is an issue with your Create Order API request JSON which is not well formed. 

"purchase_units": field is not well formed and it is an Array of Objects. 

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/orders/v2/#orders_create!path=purchase_units&t=request 

I see that your passing "{ }" instead of "[ ]" for the "purchase_units" in Create Order API request JSON which is the reason why your facing this error. 

Please refer the below sample :

  "intent": "CAPTURE",
  "purchase_units": [
    {
      "reference_id": "**************",
      "amount": {
        "currency_code": "USD",
        "value": "100.00"
      }
    }
  ],

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/orders/v2/#orders_create 

Sincerely,

Chiranjeevi

PayPal/Braintree MTS

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[knutsford · Accepted solution]

Thanks so I gather  - oops. A case of seeing what you think is on the screen and not what is actually there. Thanks