#danboyle8637-webhooks
cinder pilot
You would just configure the webhook handler at your endpoint to check if there's an error before sending back a response
dull wolf
I get that ... but if I need to send a response to my app to signal there is an error... I can't send two responses... one to my app and one to Stripe
cinder pilot
Why not?
compact sparrow
In general, the only valid response to a webhook is "I got This" (200) - any subsequent "error" isn't part of Stripe's processing. My system simply queues up each webhook event, and sends back the 200 - a separate process runs through the created queue processing the events, and dealing with databases and other issues
cinder pilot
To copy off @compact sparrow a little bit. Stripe will eventually timeout if no response is sent and you will see errors in the logs of your Dashboard, so the worst-case here is that you don't send an error to Stripe at all
compact sparrow
Maybe it isn't clear that the webhook call does NOT come from your app, but from Stripe
dull wolf
@compact sparrow okay I was thinking that... shuffling off the database operations to another function to handle and I guess if there is an error I can log that in an admin system and notify myself that something went wrong for a particular user.
I know it comes from Stripe which is why when there is an error based on say a successful payment. I want to create a user in the database and add a membership to them. But if that fails... I can't talk back to my app because it's not part of this.
compact sparrow
Depending on WHAT failed, you may well have an error on the Front End call- more "asynchronous" issues (subscriptions ending, etc), you will have to have a messaging method of SOME type from your backend to frontend
My users have various structures/records that are monitored by the front end - errors are posted there, and exposed at the front end. Sometimes I have to send text/email to users to get them BACK to the app to deal with them.
dull wolf
Hmmmm... okay. Interesting. I'll have to grok this one and think about what I can do if an error happens. Thanks for the insight and help
compact sparrow
(my stack, btw, is based around Firebase Firestore, Storage and Cloud functions with a React front end)
dull wolf
Okay.. mine is React (Next) on front... and all Cloudflare on the back... KV Durable Objects and Workers