I'm accessing the stripe API directly with the REST API (not using a library) but, surprisingly, I can't find documentation on the appropriate body format post data.
Does Stripe expect JSON or form-encoded pairs?
I'm accessing the stripe API directly with the REST API (not using a library) but, surprisingly, I can't find documentation on the appropriate body format post data.
Does Stripe expect JSON or form-encoded pairs?
Here is the sample of the curl code to Nodejs I am working on a similar problem
as you know we can't send JSON for the "post" method it must be URL encoded
here is the sample provided by stripe https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create
curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/checkout/sessions \
> -u stripe_key_here: \
> -d success_url="https://example.com/success" \
> -d cancel_url="https://example.com/cancel" \
> -d "payment_method_types[]=card" \
> -d "line_items[][name]=T-shirt" \
> -d "line_items[][description]=Comfortable cotton t-shirt" \
> -d "line_items[][amount]=1500" \
> -d "line_items[][currency]=usd" \
> -d "line_items[][quantity]=2"
-u means authorization which we provide in the headers
-d means body of the url
sample code in node js
const fetch = require("node-fetch");
const stripeKey = process.env.STRIPE_KEY;
async function getCheckoutID() {
try {
const endpoint = "https://api.stripe.com/v1/checkout/sessions";
const query = objToQuery({
success_url: "https://example.com/success",
cancel_url: "https://example.com/cancel",
"payment_method_types[]": "card",
"line_items[][name]": "T-shirt",
"line_items[][description]": "Comfortable cotton t-shirt",
"line_items[][amount]": 1500,
"line_items[][quantity]": 1,
"line_items[][currency]": "usd"
});
// enpoint => "https://www.domin.com/api"
// query => "?key=value&key1=value1"
const URL = `${endpoint}${query}`;
const fetchOpts = {
method: "post",
headers: {
"Authorization": `Bearer ${stripeKey}`,
"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
}
}
const checkout = await getJSON(URL, fetchOpts);
console.log("CHECKOUT OBJECT : " , checkout);
return checkout;
}
catch(e) {
console.error(e);
}
}
// hepler functions
// instead of using fetch
// getJSON will make it readable code
async function getJSON(url, options) {
const http = await fetch(url, options);
if (!http.ok) {
console.log(http);
throw new Error("ERROR STATUS IS NOT OK :");
}
return http.json();
}
// convert JS object to url query
// {key:"value" , key1: "value1"} to "key=value&key1=value1"
function objToQuery(obj) {
const query = Object.keys(obj).map( k => `${k}=${obj[k]}`).join("&");
return query.length > 0 ? `?${query}` : "";
}