approveOrDeclineHeldTransaction() response is always "Approved"

[drewboater]

When attempting to "decline" any transaction that has a FDS Pending Review Hold on it, the transaction is always being "approved".

I have been having a problem for a while now. This seems to be happening in both the Sandbox and Live Production environments.

I have run many test orders and received the same results. Just to confirm that I am indeed setting the action to "decline" and the correct transaction ID, I even tried hard coding those values in.

Pasted below is sample approveOrDeclineHeldTransaction() with values hard-coded in, and below that is the response object as received from the Sandbox.

function _approveOrDeclineHeldTransaction( $transactionid, $action )
{       
    $result = array();

    $merchantAuthentication = $this->_new_merchant_auth();

    //create a transaction
    $transactionRequestType = new net\authorize\api\contract\v1\HeldTransactionRequestType();
    //$transactionRequestType->setAction( $action );        // possible values: approve or decline
    //$transactionRequestType->setRefTransId( $transactionid );
    $transactionRequestType->setRefTransId( "40040828699" );
    $transactionRequestType->setAction( "decline" );        // possible values: approve or decline

    $request = new net\authorize\api\contract\v1\UpdateHeldTransactionRequest();
    $request->setMerchantAuthentication( $merchantAuthentication ) ;
    $request->setHeldTransactionRequest( $transactionRequestType );

    $controller = new net\authorize\api\controller\UpdateHeldTransactionController($request);

    $response = $this->_execute_api( $controller );

    $result = $this->_parse_authnet_response( $response );

    log_message('message', print("<pre>".print_r($response,true)."</pre>") );

    return $result;
}

RESPONSE OBJECT:

net\authorize\api\contract\v1\UpdateHeldTransactionResponse Object ( [transactionResponse:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\UpdateHeldTransactionResponse:private] => net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType Object ( [responseCode:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => 1 [rawResponseCode:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => [authCode:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => 8I55C8 [avsResultCode:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => P [cvvResultCode:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => [cavvResultCode:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => [transId:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => 40040828699 [refTransID:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => 40040828699 [transHash:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => [testRequest:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => 0 [accountNumber:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => XXXX1111 [entryMode:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => [accountType:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => Visa [splitTenderId:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => [prePaidCard:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => [messages:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => Array ( [0] => net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType\MessagesAType\MessageAType Object ( [code:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType\MessagesAType\MessageAType:private] => 1 [description:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType\MessagesAType\MessageAType:private] => This transaction has been approved. )

            )

        [errors:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => Array
            (
            )

        [splitTenderPayments:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => Array
            (
            )

        [userFields:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => Array
            (
            )

        [shipTo:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => 
        [secureAcceptance:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => 
        [emvResponse:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => 
        [transHashSha2:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => 
        [profile:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => 
        [networkTransId:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\TransactionResponseType:private] => 
    )

[refId:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\ANetApiResponseType:private] => 
[messages:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\ANetApiResponseType:private] => net\authorize\api\contract\v1\MessagesType Object
    (
        [resultCode:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\MessagesType:private] => Ok
        [message:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\MessagesType:private] => Array
            (
                [0] => net\authorize\api\contract\v1\MessagesType\MessageAType Object
                    (
                        [code:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\MessagesType\MessageAType:private] => I00001
                        [text:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\MessagesType\MessageAType:private] => Successful.
                    )

            )

    )

[sessionToken:net\authorize\api\contract\v1\ANetApiResponseType:private] => 

)