#sai-rez_best-practices
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open oak
hi! well the way the PaymentMethod API is designed is you can always view old Source objects through it.
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-methods/transitioning#compatibility
You can retrieve all saved compatible payment instruments through the Payment Methods API.
.. the Payment Methods API provides a different view of the same underlying object
snow geyser
So if we have code that looks like this customer.sources.data[0].card and we wanted to refactor, would we need to make a request to get the payment method object for that user and get their card value?
open oak
well you would refactor that code by removing it and doing https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_methods/customer_list instead
otherwise, the value of customer.sources.data[0].card will be like card_xxx and you can pass that to https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_methods/customer yes and what you get is an object that is shaped like a PaymentMethod and works just like one but the underlying data is from the card_xxx (as the docs above described). (but note that e.g. customer.sources doesn't exist on current API versions which is why I'm saying you would use PaymentMethod.list instead)
snow geyser
Ok so I completely understand, if a historic user was created with the Sources API and I make PaymentMethod.list request using their customer id, that would also get the same information as what customer.sources.data[0] would get you?
snow geyser
Awesome I will take a look at everything you mentioned, thanks for your help!