paypointgateway module stuck on redirect page

Question

I have the new paypoint module installed and it appears to be working, it can be configured and chosen as a payment option using the hosted method.

However, once the "place order" button is pressed and one would expect it to redirect to paypoint for payment, it just goes to a blank page with url/paypointgateway/hosted/redirect/ and sits there.

There is nothing in the paypoint log, the magento log or the apache log.

UPDATE:

In answer to the comment, the redirctAction is:

public function redirectAction() {
  return parent::_redirect_action(__METHOD__);
}

And the parent is:

protected function _redirect_action($child_method) {
     $html = 
        $this
            ->getLayout()
            ->createBlock(
                $this->_redirectBlock,
                null,
                array('paymentMethodInstance' => $this->_getPaymentMethodInstance())
            )
            ->toHtml();
     $this->getResponse()->setBody($html);
}

So I'll look into the layout file.

UPDATE 2:

Ok, have narrowed it down to this part returning nothing, well, a zero length string.:

$html = 
        $this
            ->getLayout()
            ->createBlock(
                $this->_redirectBlock,
                null,
                array('paymentMethodInstance' => $this->_getPaymentMethodInstance())
            )
            ->toHtml();

Note also that $this->_redirectBlock (a string) and $this->_getPaymentMethodInstance() (an object) are non-empty.

Answer 1

Seams like the suggestions in the comments were on the right track. Maybe they can serve someone as steps to check in a similar issue:

• Check what the method redirectAction() from the HoesteController is supposed to do. Maybe there is something wrong with it. If all it does is loadLayout()->renderLayout() it might be something wrong with your layout file
• If the block is a child of class Mage_Core_Block_Template and _toHtml() does not have any output, could be because there is no template set for the block.