jimin - Request Payloads | Stripe Developers | Page 1

static falcon Mar 10, 2022, 12:32 AM

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Hello! Can you give me the request IDs for both of these so I can take a look? Here's how you can find a request ID: https://support.stripe.com/questions/finding-the-id-for-an-api-request

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Also, I'm not sure what json.dumps is doing there... I'm not very familiar with Python or the requests library. Can you explain what that piece does?

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Also, we strongly recommend using our official Python library instead of hitting the API directly: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-python

somber sundial Mar 10, 2022, 12:37 AM

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Yeah we are using some api gateway proxy which makes it necessary for us to hit the API directly 😦 here is a link to what I am referring to:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/58436785

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I'm not sure what our request id is

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I get this error:

{'error': {'message': 'Invalid object',
           'param': 'card',
           'type': 'invalid_request_error'}}

for this endpoint
"https://api.stripe.com/v1/payment_methods"

static falcon Mar 10, 2022, 12:38 AM

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Can you get the response headers from that request?

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The request ID should be in there.

somber sundial Mar 10, 2022, 12:39 AM

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aha here it is req_UmVagViUzeCRD1

static falcon Mar 10, 2022, 12:40 AM

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Thanks! Taking a look...

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Ha, so, yeah, that's not going to work. Our API got a JSON string as the value of the card property.

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This is the raw POST data we got in the body:

card=%7B%22exp_month%22%3A+3%2C+%22exp_year%22%3A+2023%2C+%22number%22%3A+%224242424242424242%22%2C+%22cvc%22%3A+%22314%22%7D&type=card

If you URL decode that it turns into this:

card={"exp_month":+3,+"exp_year":+2023,+"number":+"4242424242424242",+"cvc":+"314"}&type=card

somber sundial Mar 10, 2022, 12:43 AM

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ohh ok thank you! Do you have a recommended way of doing payloads with python? I know you recommend using stripe sdk but if you have seen others do it that might be helpful!!

static falcon Mar 10, 2022, 12:43 AM

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Not with Python, no. Hang on a moment though...

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I found someone on my team who knows way more about Python than I do. 🙂 Can you share the entire requests.post() code you're using?

somber sundial Mar 10, 2022, 12:51 AM

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This is what works

payment_method = {
  "card[exp_month]": 3,
  "card[exp_year]": 2023,
  "card[number]": "4242424242424242",
  "card[cvc]": "314",
  "type": "card"
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, data=payment_method, headers=headers)

but this is what I would hope would work

payment_method = {
  "card": {
    "exp_month": 3,
    "exp_year": 2023,
    "number": "4242424242424242",
    "cvc": "314"
  },
  "type": "card"
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, data=payment_method, headers=headers)

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since parsing it to the above format kind of gets complicated with nested payloads

static falcon Mar 10, 2022, 12:59 AM

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Thanks!

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So the bad news is that you're going to get the parameters into the format in the first version. The good news is you can look at the way our Python library does it right here: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-python/blob/bc872674ba5c8ffd7d830f83ccb8e2adab53fd86/stripe/api_requestor.py#L28

somber sundial Mar 10, 2022, 1:01 AM

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perfect!! Thank you so much for your help!!

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