Support for Amazon Pay Bill payment orders for India domain

[AnmolBaansal]

Amazon Pay (wallet) in India allows to do bill payments for various billers such as electricity, internet, phone recharges, LPG gas, insurance payments.
These show up in the amazon shopping order history as well as a separate page for all transaction for amazon pay.

When AZAD runs for orders, it detect the order id, date of order, total as well payments column for the order but cannot detect Items in the order.

From initial look on how the code base works, these are the some notable things which might help to get started:

• If we treat them as orders:

  • For such orders, base URL for order details is https://www.amazon.in/pay/transaction-details. This is not supported.
  • This URL is detected from order history page as the regex looks for 'order-detail', 'order-summary'
  • New parser or existing parser enhancement will be needed to get the item name

• If we treat them as transactions

  • the base url in background.ts is fixed as /cpe/yourpayments/transactions. will need to handle the new URL format.
  • This page type in I-frame is not supported.

Let me know how I can help in closing this requirement.

[philipmulcahy]

Because I don't have direct access to this feature, I think that you sharing some screenshots, with associated urls and html would be a good next step - not here, but instead in email to azadextension at gmail dot com with #389 in the subject line.
Also, do you have a feel for 1) how stable is this Amazon feature?, and 2) how many people are using it?

From what you've written it sounds like there is a normal order id associated with these bill payments, and it's just that we're not picking up the "item" information. If that's the case, I am more comfortable with treating it more like a bug. It calls to mind some digital subscriptions (disney plus here in the UK for example) which don't show up very well in the current extension, despite having an order id.

If they also manifest in the transactions table (e.g. each payment order has one or more transactions), then it stands to reason that we might argue to just fix the scraping problem without introducing new UI complexity (such as an additional radio button for a different entity type).

Your mention of page type made me shiver and smile - I got burned by this in another ticket this week - that list of URL patterns in page_type.ts is an abomination. I remember considering an alternative approach to distinguish between my iframes and amazon's that would have used an additional URL parameter (it's not easy to initialise an iframe with hidden state), but it'd be visible to amazon, who could 302 them or otherwise mess with their behaviour.

Yours,

Philip

[AnmolBaansal]

Mail sent with some screenshots, page flow and some other details.
If there is anything else I can help with, just let me know.

[philipmulcahy]

Note for future me: @AnmolBaansal sent me a big email on Sat 20 Dec.

[philipmulcahy]

...which I now see he told me about on the post immediately above mine.