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river pendantBOT Jun 24, 2025, 3:53 PM

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upper jolt Jun 24, 2025, 3:53 PM

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Hello

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Yes you would still use your Publishable key here.

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Can you tell me more about what "not working anymore" means exactly?

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Are you seeing a specific error?

sonic shore Jun 24, 2025, 3:55 PM

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so when i try to create a connectionToken according to the documentation, it returns a secret. But in our older application, we dont get any secret, instead we get a publishable api key (terminal 3.3.0). When we use this api key as the connection token, it doesnt fetch locations, but when we use secret, it fetches locations.

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https://docs.stripe.com/api/terminal/connection_tokens

Connection Token | Stripe API Reference

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

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earlier, in our old app, it never returned any secret

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we used the api key as our connection token

upper jolt Jun 24, 2025, 3:56 PM

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Is this using the Javascript SDK?

sonic shore Jun 24, 2025, 3:56 PM

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android

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native code

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we checked the github for stripe android

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and we found out secret is now mandatorily required to fetch locations

upper jolt Jun 24, 2025, 3:57 PM

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Gotcha, as far as I know you should always have been using your Publishable key to initialize the SDK and then call your backend for a Connection Token.

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But I'm double checking

sonic shore Jun 24, 2025, 3:58 PM

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So there are 2 steps:

Init terminal - in which we pass the connection token
This connection token - earlier - publishable api key, now secret key

upper jolt Jun 24, 2025, 3:59 PM

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What do you mean by:

earlier - publishable api key
You could never create a Connection Token with your Publishable Key... that would have removed the security it provided.

sonic shore Jun 24, 2025, 4:00 PM

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it was possible during 3.3.0

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i remember that it was removed for security concerns like u said

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so im trying to find a proof of where is it in the changelog

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so that i can present to my product team that secret key is needed for the terminal now

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can u pls provide that for me? if possible?

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I would greatly appreciate it

upper jolt Jun 24, 2025, 4:01 PM

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I'm looking but I don't believe this was ever possible. Do you have a request ID where you created a Connection Token with your Publishable Key?

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If this was the case then it would be documented here: https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/references/sdk-migration-guide?terminal-sdk-platform=android

I'm quite skeptical this ever was the case so would love to see an example request.

sonic shore Jun 24, 2025, 4:04 PM

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sorry i got it all wrong

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the terminology i used is wrong

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I have a connection token, i got a connection token succesfully

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but the next step after this is to fetch locations

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which im not able to

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can u guess what coudl be the reason?

upper jolt Jun 24, 2025, 4:08 PM

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What does "which I'm not able to do" mean?

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Is there an error?

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