#mindsetinmeta
trail scaffold
sterile dagger
I'm creating a checkout session and setting up the success_url and cancel_url
can I pass in additional parameters in these two urls?
when I pass in the project id in the URL, I receive the following error.
strong pewter
Hi! Can you share the request ID (req_xxx)? Here's how you can find it: https://support.stripe.com/questions/finding-the-id-for-an-api-request
sterile dagger
req_Uk5775hzllQ0kN
strong pewter
As the error message explains, you have passed in a unknown parameter "session_id" and that's why the request is unsuccessful.
If you want attach custom data, you can use metadata https://stripe.com/docs/api/metadata#metadata
sterile dagger
how can I pass it in as part of the success_url and cancel_url?
strong pewter
Is your objective to retrieve the checkout session ID in the success_url?
sterile dagger
the project ID, not the checkout session ID
we would like to pass in the project ID
strong pewter
And how do you intent to retrieve it?
sterile dagger
so when the customer returns, we know what to show on teh return page.
from the page URL
strong pewter
Then you just append your custom data as a query param of the URL
For example: 'https://www.youdomain.com?projectid=foo'
sterile dagger
how can I append multiple parameters and the & sign to Stripe?
as part of success_url?
Stripe is not recognizing the & and thinks it's an additional parameter
strong pewter
Request iD?
balmy eagle
sorry to bud in but what i do @sterile dagger is pass a single ID in the return url and on the success page I retrieve that ID from the database. in the db i store the data i want with that ID so i can get it later
and in the db: 77: { customer: 'john', project: 'foo' }
strong pewter
I just did a quick test and I'm able to include & in the success url.
sterile dagger
@balmy eaglethat's what I did man.
but when I pass in multiple parameters, Stripe does not recognize & and thinks I'm passing in the parameter after & as an additional parameter.
strong pewter
@sterile dagger do you have the request ID so that I can take a look?
sterile dagger
req_Uk5775hzllQ0kN
req_PbSmp9FzYXnxFC
in these two, I tried passing in session_id and project_id as part of the success_url following an "&" but Stripe thinks I'm trying to pass in the parameter as part of the request and thus throw an error.
can you share your example?
strong pewter
If you read the error message, the request was failed because you added in an unknown param session_id: "",
You should remove it and try again
sterile dagger
I'm passing that as part of the success_url
but Stripe did not parse it correctly
strong pewter
The problem is not with the success_url
The problem is that you are passing unknown parameter
sterile dagger
what should be the format of success_url if we would like to pass in additional parameters?
should we wrap the url with '...' or "..."
so Stripe will recognize it's a whole URL?
strong pewter
As long as it's a valid URL, something like https://www.youdomain.com/?projectid=foo&productid=bar
sterile dagger
if you pass this in, Stripe will parse productid as part of the API request and consider it as a parameter and throw an error.
strong pewter
No, Stripe doesn't parse the success_url to retrieve the query params.
Can you share with me your code?
sterile dagger
I think you may need to replace & with %26 when making a request
strong pewter
It really depends on how you create the request, if you are willing to share the code, I'm happy to help you.
sterile dagger
I think it's solved. thanks.
we are ready to launch one of the other projects. do you have a manual on how to switch from test mode to live?
strong pewter
https://stripe.com/docs/development/checklist here's a go-live checklist
