#geewee-ProductId
opal tapir
Yeah I'm specifying the product_id manually via the API - felt like the easiest way to see if I could provoke a collision
marble badger
So you want to mange the IDs by yourself and ensure all of them are unqiue?
opal tapir
Basically, I'm building a service that interacts with the stripe API. I want to save some metadata related to each product.
I wanted to know if I can save the data, keyed by "product_id" as a key (as it would always be unique), or if I need to save it with both product_id and account_id, as the product_id is only unique inside each account.
marble badger
if the product ID is generated by Stripe, then you can rest assured that it's globally unqiue.
opal tapir
Is there any way I can tell whether or not the product_id is generated by Stripe? I have just manually created a product with the same ID, as another product in another account, so I'm assuming there's potential for collisions there?
marble badger
If you specify the ID when creating a product, Stripe will generate one for you.
opal tapir
Right, but let's take an example.
The first image is a "real" product from one account
The second image is a product I've created on a different account, but manually specifying the ID to be the same as the first product.
Notice that the ids are both identical.
So I guess I can't count on product_id's being unique?
marble badger
That's because you set it manually.