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Additional API Calls

This section highlights some of the additional API calls that can be made with GraphQL to perform things like reader health/status checks, or querying a list of readers or transaction history, etc...

Ping Reader

It is possible to ping a specific reader in order to extract certain information from it, such as whether the reader is offline or online, or what firmware version is running on the reader. To perform this function you would need to ping the reader using the API call shown below:

More information on how to structure your reader ping query here. Important to note that the data returned in the response is not accurate in real time, it is accurate within several minutes. For building offline transaction request routing logic, we would suggest utilizing the reader status returned in the request charge mutation. 

query PingInStoreReader($readerId: ID!) {
    pingInStoreReader(readerId: $readerId) {
        id
        name
        status
        pairedAt
        lastSeenAt
        offlineSince
        softwareVersion
        location {
            id
            name
            internalName
            address {
                streetAddress
                extendedAddress
                locality
                region
                postalCode
                countryCode
            }
        }
    }
}

Offline Ping

This API mutation can be used if you would like to validate that you can ping a reader while offline without actually sending a charge request. The result is a simple response that will indicate you can ping the reader using the offline endpoint, example below:

https://readerIPaddress:3030/graphql

{ping}

Query a list of Locations

You may want to query a list of locations to retrieve things like locationId or location address info or other info linked to a location. See below example of how you may do this:

query Locations {
    inStoreLocations(first: 100) {
        pageInfo {
            hasNextPage
            hasPreviousPage
            startCursor
            endCursor
        }
        edges {
            node {
                id
                name
                internalName
                geoCoordinates {
                    latitude
                    longitude
                }
                qrCodePaymentsEnabled
                payerId
                address {
                    streetAddress
                    locality
                    region
                    countryCode
                    postalCode
                }
            }
            cursor
        }
    }
}

Query a list of Readers

It is possible to query a list of readers that are associated with a specific location or specific merchant account. To do this you can simply use a query as shown below in the example:

query ($input: InStoreReaderSearchInput!) {
    search {
        inStoreReaders(input: $input) {
            pageInfo {
                hasNextPage
                hasPreviousPage
                startCursor
                endCursor
            }
            edges {
                cursor
                node {
                    ... on InStoreReader {
                        id
                        status
                        name
                        softwareVersion
                        location {
                            id
                        }
                        vendor {
                            ... on VerifoneVendor {
                                model
                                osVersion
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                
            }
        }
    }
}

Query a list of Transactions

If you would like to automate/streamline your reconciliation process, one way of doing so is by utilizing a transaction query. There are a few ways of querying transactions, try modifying the variables in your request to alter the results of your search:

For more information on how to use the query function to search for transactions or other objects see our documentation here with more specific details on constructing transaction searches 

{
  "query": "query Search($input: TransactionSearchInput!) {
    search {
      transactions(input: $input) {
        pageInfo {
          hasNextPage
          startCursor
          endCursor
        },
        edges {
          node {
            id
            status
            amount {
              value
              currencyIsoCode
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }",
  "variables": {
    "input": {
       "amount": {
         "value": {
           "greaterThanOrEqualTo": "800.00"
         }
       },
       "status": {
         "in": ["SETTLED", "VOIDED"]
       }
     }
   }
}'
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