SenorKarlos-pagination | Stripe Developers | Page 1

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 1:33 AM

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👋 Happy to help

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 1:34 AM

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heya! thanks 😄 still wrapping my brain around some of the finer points of this programming nonsense 😂

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 1:40 AM

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Am I right to understand that you want to iterate the customer.list(..) until the end when has_more is false?

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 1:41 AM

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I think that's the proper way to say it lol. In the end I want a list array of all the customers to send into parse instead of doing it mid function like how it was written

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 1:45 AM

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In this case, I'd recommend using auto pagination provided by library, so that you don't have to keep track of the pages that you're in: https://stripe.com/docs/api/pagination/auto

Other helpful docs and videos:

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 1:47 AM

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ok I can take a look at that and see if I can figure it out 🙂 that's the problem I was having when I started writing some lines, I'd either have variables writing over themselves and not know when to finish or an if chain with a capacity limit where you quit lol

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 1:48 AM

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Auto pagination allows iterating the list of customers without keep tracking the has_more. In the sample video, it provides both options:

while loop with has_more flag check (manual)
use auto-pagination provides by the library, so that you don't have to handle pagination manually (auto)

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If you want to use manually, the video is a good start and it describes how you can do it

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 1:49 AM

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something else has been buggin me all weekend, had a chat with a fellow dev about it but would like to know what the heck from you guys 😄 while i got ya

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subsciptions.plan .... it's not in the API reference for subscription object, there is a 'plans' reference, but the 'prices' reference seems to be the replacement and the subscription.items be used, I'm just not sure about using it properly or if plan will suddenly vanish from the object

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 1:51 AM

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SenorKarlos-pagination

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 1:51 AM

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my code uses plan.id alot, but I know it can now be found at items.data[0].somethin eh lol

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 1:53 AM

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Can you share a little bit more what you want to achieve?

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 1:56 AM

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heh summary

why subscriptions.plan isn't mentioned and if it will go away? does it take updates?
more information about items if it will be necessary. I never plan to have users on multiple prices under one subscription if that matters or helps

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well i guess the second point I can go read up, more if I have to lol

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 2:05 AM

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why subscriptions.plan isn't mentioned and if it will go away, does it take updates?
To obtain the items that a customer subscribes, subscription.items should be used. Plan is legacy, and it's no longer recommended. If the subscription item has been changed, it'll reflect the updated one.

more information about items if it will be necessary. I never plan to have users on multiple prices under one subscription if that matters or help
Items are just basically the list of items that customer subscribes in a subscription. The number items under a subscription depends how you create a subscription.

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 2:10 AM

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alright that's kind of what I thought, I'll take the time now to remove the legacy references. I'm surprised though that there isn't a legacy warning or mention of it, would avoid confusion like this. I'm surprised to see it at all, I upgraded my API to latest, and created all new test data and only made customers with new calls, latest stripe_js dependency, and purchases/subs on the checkout/portal

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basically if I'm getting it in the response object, the reference should mention it

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ohyea!! 😅 it's been a busy weekend, can I hit ya for one more 😄 😉

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I think I'm understanding things correctly, hence the update part of that question (kind of related still actually)

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😂

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 2:14 AM

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I'd recommend to reference this for the latest subscription integration: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 2:15 AM

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I think I've been following that, hence the new checkout and cx portal

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 2:15 AM

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Yup, let me know if you have more question

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 2:16 AM

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yeah I see your thumbs up there now 🙂

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so I have a ton of customers, using an old naming scheme from the original code, if I understand correctly I can programmatically update them to the new scheme (they have common elements to use), but at the same time can I put them on new price plans with just a subscription update?

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(using items instead of plans as we just discussed lol)

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 2:21 AM

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Does your existing/old subscription have subscription.items?

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 2:28 AM

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They were made with legacy methods but created in the Dashboard as Products with Prices, so I presume so. Haven't run any trace code in live mode and my old bot is now offline

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I'm being 'the bot' until i finish this rewrite 😅 kill me bahahaha

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I guess step one there is make a lil mini script to pull a cx list and log it to see what I'm dealing with eh? but presumably I could update them that way?

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 2:33 AM

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Yup, I'd suggest checking what you have now and work on that.

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In any case, this is the migration doc from Plan to Price: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/migration/migrating-prices

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 2:35 AM

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awesome! thanks very much 😄 lots to chew on there!

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 2:36 AM

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No problem! Happy to help 🙂

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 3:36 AM

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😅 well I thought I figured out the pagination based on all that, but I think Node's tendency to rush on is gonna make me think outside my poor synchronous brain here lol
wall.js (main script)

ontime({
  cycle: config.sync.stripe
}, function(ot) {
  console.info("["+bot.getTime("stamp")+"] [wall.js] Starting Stripe Customer Synchronization.");
  let list = stripe.customer.list();
  stripe.customer.parse(list);
  ot.done();
  return;
});

stripe.js

const config = require("../files/config.json");
const stripe_js = require('stripe')(config.stripe.live_sk);
const stripe = {
  customer: {
    list: async function() {
      let list = [];
      for await (const customer of stripe_js.customers.list({limit: 100, expand: ['data.subscriptions']})) {
        list.push(customer);
      } return list;
    },
    parse: (...)
    }
  }
}

Error throws in the parse function as list is empty going in 😅 sad thing is that if this was in like old Java I'd probably be done already (but have a 3 million line program that runs at windows 95 speed)

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(yeah that's more of a how to code thing than a stripe thing lol)

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hrm.... return stripe.customers.parse(list); maybe.. make the function end in the next function?

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is that a thing 😅 bahaha

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 3:43 AM

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the list function is a async function. can you try:

let list = await stripe.customer.list();

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 3:44 AM

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oyea ontime didn't like that at all, bot wouldn't start, that was my first thought

  let list = await stripe.customer.list();
             ^^^^^

SyntaxError: await is only valid in async function

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 3:46 AM

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the func inside ontime is not set to async. can you make the ontime function into async?

async function(ot) ...

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 3:48 AM

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I seem to recall no, but will try. my idea just failed the same way lol

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 3:50 AM

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i'm not sure how ontime works, but can you try without using ontime and call stripe methods directly with async-await?

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 3:55 AM

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my skill level and what works already kind of limit my scope 😅 I'm also trying to wrap my brain around the errors returned on my idea there. Trying the ot change in a moment

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🤦‍♂️ one letter can make an entire test invalid lol, figured that error out

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HA! my idea did work (I am almost 99% sure ontime can't be async) I had put customers instead of customer in my parse object call 🤦‍♂️ you can see it in my message up there

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 4:02 AM

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awesome! happy that it works out for you!

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 4:03 AM

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thanks 😄 sometimes just talkin it out helps eh (and finding stupid typos lol)

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 4:03 AM

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yes! that's what we are here for!

red wagon Jul 4, 2022, 4:04 AM

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that and knowing stripe and its docs extremely well 😄 my poor browser right now

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welcome to dev ops eh 😂

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a million references and google/stack searches

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anywho ty again!

brazen leaf Jul 4, 2022, 4:06 AM

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No problem! Happy to help 🙂

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