jchannon | Stripe Developers | Page 1

plush shuttleBOT Nov 10, 2022, 4:54 PM

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shadow rune Nov 10, 2022, 4:58 PM

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Hi there, it is a JSON object.

charred heart Nov 10, 2022, 4:59 PM

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what does it look like?

shadow rune Nov 10, 2022, 4:59 PM

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It looks just like the data.object that you see in the example object there in the API Ref.

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The specifics will depend on the object that the Event is for.

charred heart Nov 10, 2022, 5:00 PM

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the data .object in those docs are a string

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ah no i see

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Object containing the API resource relevant to the event. For example, an invoice.created event will have a full invoice object as the value of the object key.

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i'm still confused 🙂

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i listen to webhooks when an account.updated is fired

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the webhook receives an account object

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but it also contains properties like previous_attributes

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in this scenario previous attributes can't surely contain the same account object?

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ah i just looked at the webhook data

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it kind of is a subset of the account object

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for example if i change the metadata, the previous attrivbutes looks like this:

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"previous_attributes": {
      "metadata": {
        "qw": "erdwgre"
      }
    }

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ok thanks

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sorry for the block of text

shadow rune Nov 10, 2022, 5:05 PM

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Yep

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No worries

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It is designed so you know what actually changed

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Let me know if I can help any further!

charred heart Nov 10, 2022, 5:06 PM

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interestingly i changed some stuff in the ui and the webhook looks like this

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 "previous_attributes": {
      "business_profile": {
        "url": null
      },
      "settings": {
        "dashboard": {
          "display_name": null
        },
        "payments": {
          "statement_descriptor": null
        }
      }
    }

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i added a website url and a privacy policy url

shadow rune Nov 10, 2022, 5:08 PM

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Right, because it was not set before, correct?

charred heart Nov 10, 2022, 5:08 PM

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but why are the values null? and why does it incude display name and statement descriptor?

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and not the privacy policy url

shadow rune Nov 10, 2022, 5:10 PM

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The values are null because they were not previously set with a value

charred heart Nov 10, 2022, 5:10 PM

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but i didnt change them

shadow rune Nov 10, 2022, 5:11 PM

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Can you provide the Event ID?

charred heart Nov 10, 2022, 5:11 PM

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"evt_1M2eCAPAS4Psk1cX4nOWtbcG"

shadow rune Nov 10, 2022, 5:15 PM

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Okay I see the confusion.

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You did update the URL here.

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The display_name and statement_descriptor use fallback logic if you don't set them explicitly

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So in this case, they now use the URL that you set

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Which is why they were previously null but now are set

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