gecko-metadata-problem | Stripe Developers | Page 1

wintry hawk Apr 1, 2022, 12:49 AM

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👋 @rough herald what do you need help with?

rough herald Apr 1, 2022, 12:49 AM

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hi there

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'req_z5LYUpLpFpBMKx',

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I'm getting an error that it must be a string

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I'm in a create-checout-session

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and trying to figure out if this is a problem with meadata, or with response URLs

wintry hawk Apr 1, 2022, 12:50 AM

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can you share your code?

rough herald Apr 1, 2022, 12:50 AM

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I thought i had this working....

wintry hawk Apr 1, 2022, 12:50 AM

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basically you're not passing metadata properly

rough herald Apr 1, 2022, 12:51 AM

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        metadata: [
            {
                'cid': `${cid}`,
            },
            {
                'sid': `${sid}`,
            },
            {
                'tier': `${tier}`,
            },
            {
                'price': `${price}`,
            },
        ],
        ```

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as I understood it takes an array of key/val pairs

wintry hawk Apr 1, 2022, 12:52 AM

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yep remove those curly brackets!

rough herald Apr 1, 2022, 12:53 AM

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no objects?

wintry hawk Apr 1, 2022, 12:53 AM

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line_items is an "array of objects" where each line item is an object so you pass line_items: [ {price: 'price_123', quantity: 1}, {price: 'price_456', quantity: 1}]

rough herald Apr 1, 2022, 12:53 AM

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that's literally what I have

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If I remove the braces, then they're not objects

wintry hawk Apr 1, 2022, 12:54 AM

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but metadata is an "array of keys" or a hash (every language has their own vocabulary) so you do metadata: [ 'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2']

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and yeah since you use node you want a hash sorry

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https://stripe.com/docs/api/metadata?lang=node stripe.charges.create({ amount: 2000, currency: "usd", source: "tok_mastercard", // obtained with Stripe.js metadata: {'order_id': '6735'} });

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so for you you want metadata: { 'cid': `${cid}`, 'sid': `${sid}`, 'tier': `${tier}`, 'price': `${price}`, },

rough herald Apr 1, 2022, 12:57 AM

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yes that's it, works fine now, thanks! I think I copied the model from line_items or something

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didn't realize that it's not an array of objects for metadata

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one last question....when the session returns, metadata is still available, yes?

wintry hawk Apr 1, 2022, 1:00 AM

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yes and it's in the checkout.session.completed event too!

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and yeah metadata is a bit "weird"

rough herald Apr 1, 2022, 1:17 AM

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great, thanks, then I don't have to have those in my response URL's, I can extract from metadata, which was what I hoped

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thx for great advice as always....Stripe support is really the best!

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