Object Reference not Set in CIM SOAP

[rd5leng]

I am having problems with the CreateCustomerPaymetProfile() function in the SOAP AIM, working in VB.Net.  I am getting an “Object reference not set” Error on the CustomerPaymentProfileType method. However no errors are showing up in Visual Web Developer code editor.

Before I run this I run the CreateCustomerProfile() function and that runs OK, no errors.

Below is the code I am trying. If I comment out all of the “new_payment_profile” lines I don’t get the error (“new_payment” and “new_card” are OK). Any help would be appreciated.

    Public Function CreateCustomerPaymentProfile(ByVal CPID As Long, ByVal Name As String, ByVal Address As String, ByVal City As String, ByVal Zip As String, ByVal CardNumber As String, ByVal ExpDate As String) As Long

        Dim new_payment_profile As New CIMService.CustomerPaymentProfileType()
        Dim new_payment As New CIMService.PaymentType()
        Dim new_card As New CIMService.CreditCardType()
        new_payment_profile.billTo.firstName = Name     
        new_payment_profile.billTo.address = Address	
        new_payment_profile.billTo.city = City		
        new_payment_profile.billTo.zip = Zip		
        new_card.cardNumber = CardNumber
        new_card.expirationDate = ExpDate
        new_payment.Item = new_card
        new_payment_profile.payment = new_payment
        Dim response As CIMService.CreateCustomerPaymentProfileResponseType = Service.CreateCustomerPaymentProfile(MerchantAuthentication, CPID, new_payment_profile, CIMService.ValidationModeEnum.liveMode)

        Dim out_id As Long = 0
        If Len(response.customerPaymentProfileId) > 0 Then
            out_id = response.customerPaymentProfileId
        Else
            For i As Integer = 0 To response.messages.Length - 1
                SessionClass.ErrorMsg += response.messages(i).text
            Next
        End If
        Return out_id
    End Function

 Thanks

[RaynorC1emen7]

Did you copy and modify the web reference from the sample code or did your own? Can't see why it will false on that. Can you trace thru the code.

[rd5leng]

I mostly copied this from the C# sample code for CIM SOAP and ran it through an online translator to get  vb. and then pulled out the CreateCustomerProfile() and CreateCustomerPaymentProfile() functions along with the

Service(), MerchantAuthentication(), properties and the 3 Constants and 2 variables used by the properties

I added the WSDL file from here  (https://api.authorize.net/soap/v1/Service.asmx?WSDL)  named the folder CIMService and changed all the references in the CustomerProfile functions to match, I made no changes to the WSDL file. I also changed  the CustomerProfile functions from Public Shared to just Public as I was getting reference errors in the editor with the shared functions.

The CreateCustomerProfile function runs great and I can add live profiles to our CIM with it, so I really don't understand why the CreatCustomerPaymentProfile would throw this error, and I don't even know where to look, since the methods used within these functions are all created from the WSDL file. I went through the code commenting out lines and I believe the error is from the CustomerPaymentProfileType object named new_payment_profile. the other objects in the function do not seem to cause a problem

I enabled page trace and pasted the results below. Not sure what to look for in all of that either.

Thanks for the Help

aspx.page	Begin PreInit
aspx.page	End PreInit	1.36190493484507E-05	0.000014
aspx.page	Begin Init	3.51301631911318E-05	0.000022
aspx.page	End Init	5.15428636879827E-05	0.000016
aspx.page	Begin InitComplete	6.32063572325533E-05	0.000012
aspx.page	End InitComplete	7.48000094984139E-05	0.000012
aspx.page	Begin LoadState	8.61841379281445E-05	0.000011
aspx.page	End LoadState	0.000214412725639711	0.000128
aspx.page	Begin ProcessPostData	0.000229428600562362	0.000015
aspx.page	End ProcessPostData	0.000413739735078062	0.000184
aspx.page	Begin PreLoad	0.000428825451279422	0.000015
aspx.page	End PreLoad	0.000440628627381413	0.000012
aspx.page	Begin Load	0.000451733390696304	0.000011
aspx.page	End Load	0.000464234979585394	0.000013
aspx.page	Begin ProcessPostData Second Try	0.000475549266736415	0.000011
aspx.page	End ProcessPostData Second Try	0.000486654030051305	0.000011
aspx.page	Begin Raise ChangedEvents	0.000497549269530066	0.000011
aspx.page	End Raise ChangedEvents	0.000517942922913387	0.000020
aspx.page	Begin Raise PostBackEvent	0.000531282607146998	0.000013
Unhandled Execution Error	Object reference not set to an instance of an object.   at Payments.CreateCustomerPaymentProfile(Int64 CPID, String Name, String Address, String City, String Zip, String CardNumber, String ExpDate)   at PmtSystemTest.RunTestButton2_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)   at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)   at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument)   at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument)   at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument)   at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData)   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)	0.00386096556964642	0.003330

Control TreeControl UniqueID Type Render Size Bytes (including children) ViewState Size Bytes (excluding children) ControlState Size Bytes (excluding children)

__Page	ASP.pmtsystemtest_aspx	0	0	0
ctl02	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00	System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlHead	0	0	0
ctl01	System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlTitle	0	0	0
ctl03	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
form1	System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlForm	0	0	0
ctl04	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
RunTestBtton	System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button	0	0	0
ctl05	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
TestResults	System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label	0	0	0
ctl06	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
CPID	System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox	0	0	0
ctl07	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
CardNumber	System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox	0	0	0
ctl08	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ExpDate	System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox	0	0	0
ctl09	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
RunTestButton2	System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button	0	0	0
ctl10	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
TestResults2	System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label	0	0	0
ctl11	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ErrorMsg	System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label	0	0	0
ctl12	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl13	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0

Session StateSession Key Type ValueApplication StateApplication Key Type ValueRequest Cookies CollectionName Value SizeResponse Cookies CollectionName Value SizeHeaders CollectionName Value

Connection	keep-alive
Content-Length	274
Content-Type	application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept	text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding	gzip, deflate
Accept-Language	en-us,en;q=0.5
Host	multihullnetsnew.multihullnets.com
Referer	http://multihullnetsnew.multihullnets.com/PmtSystemTest.aspx
User-Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1

Response Headers CollectionName Value

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Cache-Control	private
Content-Type	text/html

Form CollectionName Value

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CPID	45198835
CardNumber	4111111111111
ExpDate	2015-03
RunTestButton2	Run CreateCustomerPaymentProfile

Querystring CollectionName ValueServer VariablesName Value

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ALL_RAW	Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 274 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Host: multihullnetsnew.multihullnets.com Referer: http://multihullnetsnew.multihullnets.com/PmtSystemTest.aspx User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1
APPL_MD_PATH	/LM/W3SVC/184/ROOT
APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH	E:\HostingSpaces\LocalUser\RLeng\MultihullnetsNew.multihullnets.com\wwwroot\
AUTH_TYPE
AUTH_USER
AUTH_PASSWORD
LOGON_USER
REMOTE_USER
CERT_COOKIE
CERT_FLAGS
CERT_ISSUER
CERT_KEYSIZE
CERT_SECRETKEYSIZE
CERT_SERIALNUMBER
CERT_SERVER_ISSUER
CERT_SERVER_SUBJECT
CERT_SUBJECT
CONTENT_LENGTH	274
CONTENT_TYPE	application/x-www-form-urlencoded
GATEWAY_INTERFACE	CGI/1.1
HTTPS	off
HTTPS_KEYSIZE
HTTPS_SECRETKEYSIZE
HTTPS_SERVER_ISSUER
HTTPS_SERVER_SUBJECT
INSTANCE_ID	184
INSTANCE_META_PATH	/LM/W3SVC/184
LOCAL_ADDR	66.199.128.250
PATH_INFO	/PmtSystemTest.aspx
PATH_TRANSLATED	E:\HostingSpaces\LocalUser\RLeng\MultihullnetsNew.multihullnets.com\wwwroot\PmtSystemTest.aspx
QUERY_STRING
REMOTE_ADDR	67.78.212.182
REMOTE_HOST	67.78.212.182
REMOTE_PORT	3613
REQUEST_METHOD	POST
SCRIPT_NAME	/PmtSystemTest.aspx
SERVER_NAME	multihullnetsnew.multihullnets.com
SERVER_PORT	80
SERVER_PORT_SECURE	0
SERVER_PROTOCOL	HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SOFTWARE	Microsoft-IIS/7.0
URL	/PmtSystemTest.aspx
HTTP_CONNECTION	keep-alive
HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH	274
HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE	application/x-www-form-urlencoded
HTTP_ACCEPT	text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING	gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE	en-us,en;q=0.5
HTTP_HOST	multihullnetsnew.multihullnets.com
HTTP_REFERER	http://multihullnetsnew.multihullnets.com/PmtSystemTest.aspx
HTTP_USER_AGENT	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1

[RaynorC1emen7]

I created a new web site and did a "add web reference" to the apitest.authorize.net/soap/v1/service.asmx

And it works fine.

under your CIMService folder, does it have a reference.vb? if it exist, it probably something in the CustomerPaymentProfileType or CustomerPaymentProfileBaseType class.

[rd5leng]

No. my Web Reference folder only contains a Service.discomap and Service.wsdl files.

I noticed the C# sample contains a Reference.cs file but how would i get a Reference.vb file. I am using VisualWebDeveloper 2010 Express. I right click on the Solution Explorer, select Add Web Reference, enter the URL and click add. I have tried this several times and no reference file shows up.

[RaynorC1emen7 · Accepted solution]

Don't need the reference.vb. I was just wondering if it something wrong with the C# to VB translation.

I copy your code to my test project the error I got was on the

new_payment_profile.billTo.firstName = Name

so, I added just before that line

new_payment_profile.billTo = new CIMService.CustomerAddressType()

other than that it was ok.

[rd5leng]

That was it. Thanks.

[jaykishanxo]

Make sure Authorize.NET dll was not properly refresh in bin folder when creating a new Customer Profile on Authorize.NET.

I am using asp.net c# code.

So please refresh or remove and add new Authorize.NET dll and u will create new customer easily.