Aziz777 | Stripe Developers | Page 1

timid tendonBOT Jan 25, 2023, 9:39 AM

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vagrant lichen Jan 25, 2023, 9:39 AM

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Hi there!

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What is your issue exactly?

lunar pewter Jan 25, 2023, 9:39 AM

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Hi

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when i try to connect to the terminal

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some of them gives me a null location id

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i m not sure how i add a terminal or a location id to it

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as per the sample code, the location id should come from the scanned list from discovery

vagrant lichen Jan 25, 2023, 9:43 AM

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as per the sample code
Can you share the doc you are following?

lunar pewter Jan 25, 2023, 9:43 AM

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sure

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https://stripe.com/docs/terminal/payments/connect-reader?terminal-sdk-platform=android&reader-type=bluetooth

Connect to a reader

Connect your application to a Stripe Terminal reader.

vagrant lichen Jan 25, 2023, 9:46 AM

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Is your device turned on and connected to your application? Also can you share the exact code that you wrote and is returning null?

lunar pewter Jan 25, 2023, 9:46 AM

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sure

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here is function for connecting the reader

📎 message.txt

vagrant lichen Jan 25, 2023, 9:50 AM

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So this line is returning null? val locationId = reader.location?.id
Can you share how retrieve the reader object?

lunar pewter Jan 25, 2023, 10:01 AM

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ok

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here is the function

📎 message.txt

sour hemlock Jan 25, 2023, 10:05 AM

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reader.location is null if the reader hasn't been registered to a location yet, that's normal enough.

lunar pewter Jan 25, 2023, 10:06 AM

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yes thats my problem

sour hemlock Jan 25, 2023, 10:06 AM

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if you want to register it to one you can pass it to connectionConfig https://stripe.com/docs/terminal/fleet/locations#register-bluetooth-readers . Which your code tries to do but you assume the reader was already assocaited with a location.
If it hasn't been, you need to have some idea of a default location to use instead(like the commented out tml_xxx you have)

lunar pewter Jan 25, 2023, 10:07 AM

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where and how do i register a certain reader

sour hemlock Jan 25, 2023, 10:08 AM

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lunar pewter where and how do i register a certain reader

https://stripe.com/docs/terminal/fleet/locations#register-bluetooth-readers
your code already does this basically. If locationId is null then you need to pick a location ID somehow(like hard-code one, have your backend give you a list of location IDs , whatever makes sense for your use case), and pass that to the connectionConfig instead

lunar pewter Jan 25, 2023, 10:08 AM

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okk

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so that location ID should be created on the stripe dashboard? correct?

sour hemlock Jan 25, 2023, 10:09 AM

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yep, or in the API

lunar pewter Jan 25, 2023, 10:09 AM

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ok thannks

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is there any api available and gets me all the locations i have added?

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so that user can simply pick a location from the list of locations that is shown

sour hemlock Jan 25, 2023, 10:10 AM

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https://stripe.com/docs/api/terminal/locations/list

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or https://stripe.dev/stripe-terminal-android/core/modules/core/com.stripe.stripeterminal/-terminal/list-locations.html

lunar pewter Jan 25, 2023, 10:13 AM

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thanks

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i will try this one out

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and get back if runs into any issue

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also, any example for listlocation function?

sour hemlock Jan 25, 2023, 10:16 AM

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not that I know of, but it seems straightforward to use

lunar pewter Jan 25, 2023, 10:16 AM

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yeah just the params i need

sour hemlock Jan 25, 2023, 10:17 AM

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actually there are examples here https://github.com/stripe/stripe-terminal-android/blob/57afedbf/Example/kotlinapp/src/main/java/com/stripe/example/viewmodel/LocationSelectionViewModel.kt#L56 right in the example app for the SDK.

lunar pewter Jan 25, 2023, 10:18 AM

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i wil check

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i will also need to create a location

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can you provide me an example of that as well?

sour hemlock Jan 25, 2023, 10:23 AM

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it's all documented at https://stripe.com/docs/terminal/fleet/locations

lunar pewter Jan 25, 2023, 10:24 AM

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okk

lunar pewter Jan 25, 2023, 10:39 AM

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can we create location in android instead of backend?

sour hemlock Jan 25, 2023, 10:41 AM

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it's backend only.

zinc iris Jan 25, 2023, 10:45 AM

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👋 taking over for my colleague. Let me know if there's any follow-up Qs I can answer!

#Aziz777