Webhooks

Parse

When webhooks are triggered in the gateway, a notification is sent as a POST request to the specified destination URL. The post body contains two x-www-form-urlencoded parameters:

bt_signature
bt_payload

This payload is signed to ensure that the message originated from Braintree and was not modified in transit. The message is identical to standard API responses and contains a snapshot of the related entity at the time the webhook was triggered.

These parameters should be passed to the viewModel.parse_method. The result will be a WebhookNotification object consisting of:

A timestamp (in UTC)
- Tip: Notifications may not be delivered sequentially, so be sure to look at the timestamp of the event.
A kind (directly mapped to triggers)
A standard Braintree object, depending on the type of notification (e.g. a subscription object for recurring billing webhooks)
- Tip: Save webhook data to your database for reporting purposes or use it to trigger other actions in your app

public ActionResult Accept()
{
    WebhookNotification webhookNotification = gateway.WebhookNotification.Parse(
        Request.Form["bt_signature"],
        Request.Form["bt_payload"]
    );

    // Example values for webhook notification properties
    System.Console.WriteLine(webhookNotification.Kind); // "subscription_went_past_due"
    System.Console.WriteLinewebhookNotification.Timestamp.Value); // Sun Jan 1 00:00:00 UTC 2012

    return new HttpStatusCodeResult(200);
}

Exceptions

An invalid signature exception is raised if the webhook notification you attempt to parse has an invalid signature.

Retries

If a webhook takes longer than 30 seconds to respond, it is considered a timeout and will be retried. We will resend webhook notifications every hour for up to 3 hours in sandbox, or up to 24 hours in production, until the webhook responds with a successful HTTPS response code (i.e. ‘2xx’) within 30 seconds.
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