Magento : REST API integration with paypal payment method

Question

We are using REST API for mobile app from magento 2. We are try to place order using paypal express checkout method. But we get error. Check detail bellow.

API call.

Call Type : PUT

API URL : https://example.com/index.php/rest/V1/carts/302/order

Request Body

{
    "paymentMethod": {
          "method": "paypal_express",
          "additional_data": {
                 "paypal_express_payment_payload": {
                       "create_time":"2019-04-15T23:13:52Z",
                       "id":"PAY-6RV70583SB702805EKEYSZ6Y",
                       "intent":"sale",
                       "state":"approved"
                 }
          }
    }
}

Response of API call :

{ "message": "Internal Error. Details are available in Magento log file. Report ID: webapi-5cb8df18c6197" }

Magento Error log

    [2019-04-18 20:33:28] main.CRITICAL: Report ID: webapi-5cb8df18c6197; Message: Notice: Array to string conversion in /vendor/magento/framework/Reflection/TypeProcessor.php on line 473 
{"exception":"[object] (Exception(code: 0): Report ID: webapi-5cb8df18c6197; Message: Notice: Array to string conversion in /vendor/magento/framework/Reflection/TypeProcessor.php on line 473 
at /vendor/magento/framework/Webapi/ErrorProcessor.php:206, Exception(code: 0): Notice: Array to string conversion in /vendor/magento/framework/Reflection/TypeProcessor.php on line 473 at /vendor/magento/framework/App/ErrorHandler.php:61)"} []

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Response after developer mode enabled

Answer 1

As far I understood, It is a known issue of Magento 2. You need to wrote a module with a preference for Magento\Quote\Observer\Frontend\Quote\Address\VatValidator in your module di.xml and copied the validate method

Added these lines of code in the method

if (is_array($quoteAddress->getRegion()))
{
                $regionData = $quoteAddress->getRegion();
                if (array_key_exists('region_code', $regionData))
                {
                    $quoteAddress->setRegionCode($regionData['region_code']);
                }
                if (array_key_exists('region_id', $regionData))
                {
                    $quoteAddress->setRegionId($regionData['region_id']);
                }
                $quoteAddress->setRegion(null);
}

before Store validation

// Store validation results in corresponding quote address
  $quoteAddress->setVatIsValid((int)$validationResult->getIsValid());
  $quoteAddress->setVatRequestId($validationResult->getRequestIdentifier());

Reference: https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/12612

I hope this will help