I've read other threads which use this version of the Stripe API, and the question of actually parsing the nested JSON was never answered (ex: How to parse Stripe JSON response after credit card creation?); or marked as duplicate (ex: How to read the stripe webhook response), though the 'orig of the duplicate' is very different, and doesn't give me a clue.
So here is what I've got. This part works
customer = Stripe::Customer.create(
:card => params[:stripeToken],
:plan => params[:stripe_plan_id],
:email => current_user.email
)
... and gets me a JSON response which looks like this:
"id": "cus_4ab7wXjPrnoBvm",
"object": "customer",
"created": 1408029243,
"livemode": false,
"description": null,
"email": "edsmith@test.com",
"delinquent": false,
"metadata": {},
"subscriptions": {"object":"list","total_count":1,"has_more":false,"url":"/v1/customers/cus_4ab7wXjPrnoBvm/subscriptions","data":[{"id":"sub_4ab7tOTkirRQ8r","plan":{"id":"gold","interval":"month","name":"Gold Plan","created":1408013865,"amount":399,"currency":"usd","object":"plan","livemode":false,"interval_count":1,"trial_period_days":null,"metadata":{},"statement_description":null},"object":"subscription","start":1408029243,"status":"active","customer":"cus_4ab7wXjPrnoBvm","cancel_at_period_end":false,"current_period_start":1408029243,"current_period_end":1410707643,"ended_at":null,"trial_start":null,"trial_end":null,"canceled_at":null,"quantity":1,"application_fee_percent":null,"discount":null,"metadata":{}}]},
"discount": null,
"account_balance": 0,
"currency": "usd",
"cards": {"object":"list","total_count":1,"has_more":false,"url":"/v1/customers/cus_4ab7wXjPrnoBvm/cards","data":[{"id":"card_14RPvP4WgFgXeu1koPs2f9Zd","object":"card","last4":"5904","brand":"Diners Club","funding":"credit","exp_month":2,"exp_year":2015,"fingerprint":"XTb65AiBJVROg4FA","country":null,"name":"edsmith@test.com","address_line1":null,"address_line2":null,"address_city":null,"address_state":null,"address_zip":null,"address_country":null,"cvc_check":"pass","address_line1_check":null,"address_zip_check":null,"customer":"cus_4ab7wXjPrnoBvm"}]},
"default_card": "card_14RPvP4WgFgXeu1koPs2f9Zd"
}
So I parse this to a hash with:
stripe_customer_params = JSON.parse customer.to_s
Which gets this:
{"id"=>"cus_4abKeDBM5EGfy6", "object"=>"customer", "created"=>1408030013, "livemode"=>false, "description"=>nil, "email"=>"georgesmith@test.com", "delinquent"=>false, "metadata"=>{}, "subscriptions"=>{
"object"=>"list", "total_count"=>1, "has_more"=>false, "url"=>"/v1/customers/cus_4abKeDBM5EGfy6/subscriptions", "data"=>[{
"id"=>"sub_4abKNsI4WqeZYS", "plan"=>{
"id"=>"gold", "interval"=>"month", "name"=>"Gold Plan", "created"=>1408013865, "amount"=>399, "currency"=>"usd", "object"=>"plan", "livemode"=>false, "interval_count"=>1, "trial_period_days"=>nil, "metadata"=>{}, "statement_description"=>nil
},
"object"=>"subscription", "start"=>1408030013, "status"=>"active", "customer"=>"cus_4abKeDBM5EGfy6", "cancel_at_period_end"=>false, "current_period_start"=>1408030013, "current_period_end"=>1410708413, "ended_at"=>nil, "trial_start"=>nil, "trial_end"=>nil, "canceled_at"=>nil, "quantity"=>1, "application_fee_percent"=>nil, "discount"=>nil, "metadata"=>{}
}
]},
"discount"=>nil, "account_balance"=>0, "currency"=>"usd", "cards"=>{
"object"=>"list", "total_count"=>1, "has_more"=>false, "url"=>"/v1/customers/cus_4abKeDBM5EGfy6/cards", "data"=>[{
"id"=>"card_14RQ7p4WgFgXeu1kOETsWaqN", "object"=>"card", "last4"=>"5556", "brand"=>"Visa", "funding"=>"debit", "exp_month"=>4, "exp_year"=>2015, "fingerprint"=>"PDbelzu2DLr2A1C3", "country"=>"US", "name"=>"georgesmith@test.com", "address_line1"=>nil, "address_line2"=>nil, "address_city"=>nil, "address_state"=>nil, "address_zip"=>nil, "address_country"=>nil, "cvc_check"=>"pass", "address_line1_check"=>nil, "address_zip_check"=>nil, "customer"=>"cus_4abKeDBM5EGfy6"
}]
},
"default_card"=>"card_14RQ7p4WgFgXeu1kOETsWaqN"}
But these are nil when inspected:
stripe_customer_params[:id]
stripe_customer_params[:cards]
The first should get me the id from the JSON, and the latter should have a subset of the full-hash. Where am I going wrong?
------EDIT Ok, I was so close. It is that when parsing json to hash, you have to use quotes like this:
stripe_customer_params['id']
stripe_customer_params['cards']
So now I get "no implicit conversion of String into Integer" on this:
stripe_customer_params['cards']['data']['last4']
The DB field is a string, and the hash value is quoted as a string, so, some bit with the nested array of hashes to figure out still.
--------Edit 2
OK, the answer is:
stripe_customer_params['cards']['data'].first['last4']
... because 'data' is an array of hashes (though only 1 hash is in it).
-------Edit 3 For clarification as to why I get JSON back, rather than an object; I am using the javascript-generated pop-up form. The form is generated inline with:
<script
src="https://checkout.stripe.com/checkout.js" class="stripe-button"
data-key="pk_test_foo"
data-label="Submit"
data-email="<%=current_user.email%>"
data-image="/square-image.png"
data-name="mysite.com"
data-description="Payment Plan 1"
data-amount="1000">
</script>
This creates a button, with text "Submit" (data-label, above). When clicked, the pop-up form appears.
I have the Ruby-JSON-parsing syntax figured out, so it is working now. But if there is some other 'data-foo' I can add to get an object back, instead of JSON, that would be good to know for simplicity's sake.
