ubi-error-idempotency | Stripe Developers | Page 1

pulsar ginkgoBOT May 12, 2023, 5:14 PM

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light drum May 12, 2023, 5:14 PM

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yes

humble flint May 12, 2023, 5:14 PM

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I am trying to understand how the Idempotency-Key in case of server failures

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ah shot 😦

light drum May 12, 2023, 5:15 PM

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for 5xx you kind of want to be careful and listen to Events on your webhook endpoint to figure out whether anything happened

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like if you create a PaymentIntent and you get a 5xx you want to make sure you didn't get a payment_intent.created Event that you have no record for

humble flint May 12, 2023, 5:15 PM

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I got the payment to work, but just trying to prevent the user nagivating away and my service to be too slow to process the events

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another word, eventual consistency

light drum May 12, 2023, 5:16 PM

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ubi-error-idempotency

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yeah I mean if they navigate away it's not a problem, you'd get an Event and then you can send them an email or something

humble flint May 12, 2023, 5:16 PM

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Right well, the click away come back and pay again because my Read-Side hasn't process the event

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I guess I can detect duplicate payments bShrug

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sobpike

light drum May 12, 2023, 5:18 PM

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I mean in that case you can have a session id or order id in your cookie/session and then make sure to re-use the same idempotency key for example

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like after the PaymentIntent is created, your server should know about this before they pay client-side

pulsar ginkgoBOT May 12, 2023, 5:19 PM

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humble flint May 12, 2023, 5:19 PM

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hhhmmm I am kind of following, but I am not

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I am creating and confirming at the same time btw

light drum May 12, 2023, 5:20 PM

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why though lol

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but ultimately before you call create, track that you are doing that so that if they come back to this flow you have a record that you were trying to do that

humble flint May 12, 2023, 5:21 PM

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Why? Dont get me started .... I want to cry by now! I have learned and redo things for the last week

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The answer: because sobpike

light drum May 12, 2023, 5:21 PM

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lol

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But yeah I wouldn't really overthink it here

humble flint May 12, 2023, 5:22 PM

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yeah ... just detect double charges and move on honestly

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maybe do some sessionstorage I guess, reset the key on failure

light drum May 12, 2023, 5:22 PM

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yep

humble flint May 12, 2023, 5:23 PM

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thank you anyway, I wish Stripe has some better stuff around this topic

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Succeed Identity: "course:1235"

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LOL

light drum May 12, 2023, 5:23 PM

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We do have docs like https://stripe.com/docs/error-low-level

humble flint May 12, 2023, 5:24 PM

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Thank you so much! Definitely you have docs for everyhing

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but I need humans to make sense of them because of so much info

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aaaaaaand

light drum May 12, 2023, 5:24 PM

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yeah that's fair

humble flint May 12, 2023, 5:24 PM

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I wasted 3 days because I trusted ChatGPT ...........

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you need to add ChatGPT trained by you 5Head

light drum May 12, 2023, 5:24 PM

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😅

humble flint May 12, 2023, 5:25 PM

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Or not, I dont get KEKInsane with people like you

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actually, I take it back, dont add more stupid robots

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KEKInsane

light drum May 12, 2023, 5:34 PM

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hahaha I mean we do hope to add access to AI + docs search in the future, but it needs to be factually correct for it to be helpful

#ubi-error-idempotency