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title: Making requests with Stripe.net
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description: Learn how to make requests to the Stripe API using the Stripe.net client library. You&#39;ll see how to format parameters and pass request body, query string params, and request headers.  ### Presenter  CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe  - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev  ### Resources  Official client library: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-dotnet/ Code: https://github.com/stripe-samples/developer-office-hours/blob/master/2020-10-30-client-libraries/dotnet/requests/Program.cs  ### Table of contents  00:00 Overview 01:16 API reference 04:10 Create an object passing no params 05:12 Retrieve single object 06:50 Create an object with scalar values 09:06 Create an object with enum values 10:42 Create an object with nested object 13:45 Create an object with a list of strings 15:00 Update an object with scalar values 17:13 Update an object with a list of nested objects 20:41 Retrieve a list of objects 22:50 Retrieve a list filtered by scalar 24:53 Delete an object 26:00 Custom methods overview 26:58 Custom method demo 30:40 Nested service method overview 31:08 Nested service method demo 33:34 Request headers overview 34:40 Request headers demo 39:19 Conclusion  ### Support  If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team at https://support.stripe.com/.  ### Updates  Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest  ### Feedback  If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88. #Stripe #Payments
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# Making requests with Stripe.net

*Published: January 07, 2021*
*Views: 3222*

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## Description

Learn how to make requests to the Stripe API using the Stripe.net client library. You&#39;ll see how to format parameters and pass request body, query string params, and request headers.

### Presenter

CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe  - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev

### Resources

Official client library: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-dotnet/
Code: https://github.com/stripe-samples/developer-office-hours/blob/master/2020-10-30-client-libraries/dotnet/requests/Program.cs

### Table of contents

00:00 Overview
01:16 API reference
04:10 Create an object passing no params
05:12 Retrieve single object
06:50 Create an object with scalar values
09:06 Create an object with enum values
10:42 Create an object with nested object
13:45 Create an object with a list of strings
15:00 Update an object with scalar values
17:13 Update an object with a list of nested objects
20:41 Retrieve a list of objects
22:50 Retrieve a list filtered by scalar
24:53 Delete an object
26:00 Custom methods overview
26:58 Custom method demo
30:40 Nested service method overview
31:08 Nested service method demo
33:34 Request headers overview
34:40 Request headers demo
39:19 Conclusion

### Support

If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team at https://support.stripe.com/.

### Updates

Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest

### Feedback

If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88.
#Stripe #Payments

## Transcript

the stripe api is organized around standard restful conventions it uses those standard http requests and responses with predictable resource oriented urls request bodies are form encoded and responses are json encoded http requests you make can send data to stripe servers in one of three parts of the request in the request body this is where you pass parameters to create update and take specific actions on objects so for instance if you&#39;re creating a customer the customer&#39;s email address might be something that you pass in the body of a post request http headers which is where the configuration like api key and api version are sent you know in our docs will often refer to the arguments as request params there&#39;s also query string params most often used for filtering lists with get requests in this video you&#39;ll learn how to format request parameters so that you can effectively work from the api reference to make most requests and build almost any supported stripe integration the api reference is the detailed documentation about each resource cataloging the supported parameters some sample requests and responses generally when building an integration you&#39;ll follow an official guide but may need some specialized params to solve for your specific use case on the left you&#39;ll find a list of resources expanding customers shows which api endpoints are available for working with customers under the customer resource we see the customer object and methods for creating retrieving updating deleting and listing customers the customer object describes the shape and attributes of an instance of a customer that&#39;s returned in the responses from the stripe api you&#39;ll notice that some attributes are marked with the expand label we&#39;ll cover the expand feature of the api and how to work with it from client libraries in more detail in another episode however i just want to show that this is how from the api reference you can tell which attributes are expandable the create a customer api endpoint describes the parameters sent to the stripe api when creating a customer on the far right side we see a code snippet example with some basic params note that you can switch from curl to the stripe cli or any of our officially supported client libraries to see a basic code snippet in the programming language you&#39;re most familiar with in the next section of the api reference we&#39;ll see details about making a request to create a customer these are the parameters that can be sent in the post body to the stripe api to create customer objects the most common parameters are listed at the top and then additional or more advanced parameters are included below under the more parameters subheading if your account&#39;s default api version is older than the latest version then you might also see a panel with information about breaking changes released in a newer api version note that all parameters for creating a customer here are optional if we look at the create a payment intent reference you&#39;ll see a label showing that the amount and currency parameters are required in some cases parameters might be conditionally required as is true for off session the values for these parameters or the arguments can be scalar values objects arrays of objects or arrays of strings sub-objects or child parameters can also be deeply nested as is the case with shipping address some params might be enum values like tax exempt which accepts none exempt or reverse in this episode we&#39;ll cover how to construct the arguments passed to the client library so that you can be confident in passing scalar values or more complex parameters like lists of nested objects i&#39;ve created a new.net console app called requests and in program.cs i&#39;ve imported stripe.net and set my api key let&#39;s start with a very simple request to create a customer with no parameters we&#39;re not going to pass anything this time so we&#39;re going to say create a customer with no params and so the first thing we&#39;re going to do is initialize a new instance of a service a customer service and then we&#39;re going to create a new customer by saying service dot create and we&#39;re going to pass in null because we don&#39;t have any params or options object and now i&#39;m just going to like log out to the console that customer okay so from over here i can say dotnet run program.cs and we should see the output of this customer here in the terminal output you can see the customer object returned and the attributes that are populated for you by default if we wanted to fetch this single customer later on we do so by making a get request with the retrieve method on the customer and we&#39;re going to do so with this id of the customer and the method in stripe.net is actually called get so let&#39;s do that now so i&#39;ll comment these out and i&#39;m going to say let&#39;s make a new block here called fetch a customer and so this is going to look very similar we&#39;re going to have a service called the new customer service we&#39;re going to have a customer create call again in fact both of these lines end up being the same the uh the difference is ins i&#39;m sorry not a create we&#39;re gonna say get and now we&#39;re gonna pass in the id of the customer and uh we&#39;ll we&#39;ll log that out to the console so if we run this again with dot c netrunprogram.c we&#39;ll see the output here is returned and it&#39;s the same customer that we just created so it doesn&#39;t really have anything populated other than the defaults but we get back that same customer object from the stripe api now the id of the customer in this case is going to be set in the path so this is going to go to like v1 customers slash cuss underscore and then the id of the customer when we&#39;re making a retrieve call so stripe.net the client library in this case is going to take in this string id of the customer and then pass it into the path in this case again we&#39;re not passing any query string parameters or request body we&#39;re just simply re-fetching the customer that we created earlier let&#39;s spice things up a bit and create another customer this time with a name and email address so just some scalar values so we&#39;ll say create a customer with scalar values um and in this case we want to we want to create a new instance of an options object and that options object just contains the parameters for creating the customer so we&#39;re going to say var options is equal to new customer create options okay and we&#39;re going to pass in a name and that&#39;s jenny rosen and we&#39;ll pass an email which is going to be just jenny rosen at example.com and again we need a service and we need to call create and we need to write the customer to the console and instead of passing null when we call create we now want to pass options and these options will be sent to the stripe api in the request body of this post request that we&#39;re sending when we create a new customer so if we run this again we&#39;ll see that the customer object returned from the api now has the name set to jenny rosen and the email address there is populated and we can see it&#39;s jenny rosen at example example.com so again the stripe api expects these parameters to be passed as form encoded data in the post body not as json so the response we get back from the stripe api is going to be json but the request is form encoded so this is going to result in something like the request body being name is equal to jenny maybe like percent 20 rows in ampersand to separate these key value pairs email equals jenny.rosen at example.com so that&#39;s what the request body is going to look like when we send it so when we&#39;re working with stripe.net it&#39;s going to abstract away a lot of this so you don&#39;t really have to think about it but it&#39;s something to keep in mind if you&#39;re going to attempt to make requests outside of the context of stripe.net and you want to form your own request bodies okay let&#39;s move on to the next to the next one here some of the scalars that we have in the api except specific enum values or some of the parameters except enum value so for instance the tax exempt parameter on customer accepts one of none exempt or reverse so in this case let&#39;s uh create a customer with an enum and let&#39;s see so we&#39;re going to save our options equals new customer create options and let&#39;s just move this up and that&#39;s going to look like this and tax exempt tax exempt is equal to reverse so that&#39;s one of the valid enum values and again we&#39;re just going to use these three and we&#39;ll print that out okay so we&#39;ll run this again tax exempt is an enum or an enum right so it only accepts certain values in this case reverse is valid we could pass none that is another valid value for tax exempt notice what happens if we try to pass an invalid value for tax exempt when we run this we&#39;re going to get a 400 error returned from the stripe api and the exception the message on the exception had it quit unaccept unexpectedly yeah i could tell so it has an invalid tax exempt must be one of none reverse or exempt and we passed invalid so that&#39;s sort of an example of what you might see when you pass an invalid value for an enum okay next let&#39;s create a customer with a nested object so this is a we&#39;re going to say let&#39;s see create customer with nested object okay and we&#39;re going to say we&#39;re going to again create some options new customer create options and this time we&#39;re going to pass in invoice settings which is equal to a new instance of a customer invoice settings options and this will contain a default payment method set to the string value pm card visa okay so let&#39;s take a look at this so where the options like the type of the instance here of options is customer create options notice that in this case the method is in the name of the class of the options class so customer create when we&#39;re working with nested objects or nested params and those nested params might be reused across create and update and possibly other custom methods in that case the the type for the this object that we&#39;re passing that&#39;s nested the type does not include the method that we&#39;re like the action that we&#39;re taking instead it just says the name of the resource then the name of the field and then options at the end so in this case because we are creating a customer customer comes first and because this class represents the options that are passed when creating a customer and specifically the options that are passed for the invoice settings then we have customer invoice settings options so hopefully that&#39;s clear at the top level we&#39;re also going to pass payment method here and pm card visa and we&#39;ll talk about this magic string in a moment okay i&#39;m just going to grab these three so we&#39;re going to make a new instance of a customer service again call create and we&#39;re going to log that out to the console running program.cs again and now if we look at the invoice settings object or this nested hash that&#39;s returned in the json we&#39;ll see the default payment method has a value here and it has an id pm underscore and then a random string so it created an instance of a payment method in test mode for this customer so pm card visa is one of the test payment method ids if we pass this top level payment method and also inside of invoice.default payment method invoice settings default payment method then our resulting test customer can successfully make recurring payments in test mode for a billing subscription and other invoices so this can be useful when you&#39;re testing a billing integration all right let&#39;s move along let&#39;s move along here what do we got next okay we also have you know some some parameters except lists of strings so when creating a customer for example you can specify a list of preferred locales so i might say like create a customer with a list of strings and here we&#39;re going to again options is equal to new customer create options and this time we want to pass preferred locales is equal to and in this case we&#39;re passing a list of strings we&#39;re gonna say new list of string and um this customer prefers uh to speak english and maybe spanish i wish i could speak spanish okay so this is preferred locales we&#39;re passing a list of strings this is how you do so in stripe.net so again we&#39;re going to use these three lines to create this customer and we should see the preferred locales in the output so if we look at the terminal output here we do see that this brand new customer that we created has the preferred locales this these string values for english and for spanish there okay great excellent so now that we&#39;ve created several customers let&#39;s see how we can update an existing customer so all the concepts from earlier are going to apply the way that we can shape the parameters in these options is going to apply the difference is going to be that now our our type for the options class will have update rather than create and we&#39;ll also need to pass the id of the object we want to update in our in our api call so all objects in the stripe api have these uh string ids right and so for customers it starts with cus underscore so that is the string id that we&#39;re going to use and we&#39;re going to pass that as the first argument to the update method now the second argument is going to be one of these options objects one of these classes with the hash of parameters for updating the customer so let&#39;s go through and update customer&#39;s email address um okay so again we want our options is equal to new customer update options and in this case we want to pass the email and we&#39;ll say jr example.com these are going to be similar but not exactly the same so now we&#39;re going to say var service it&#39;s equal to new customer service and var customer is equal to service dot update and then the first argument is that string id in the second argument is the options object and we&#39;ll just print out the customer&#39;s email address and then let&#39;s also have console log their id okay cool so we got back our customer object notice that the id didn&#39;t change that&#39;s because we&#39;re not creating a new customer we&#39;re updating an existing customer the email address here jr at example.com let&#39;s update that and change it to jr-2 and then run our code again and we&#39;ll see that the email address was updated pretty basic stuff when we&#39;re passing around and just kind of updating the email address let&#39;s get a little bit more advanced with our update call and let&#39;s make it so that we are updating a um nested object on the customer okay all right so we&#39;ve got kind of the same classes but now we&#39;re going to format our update options to include some nested data so earlier we saw passing the invoice settings with a default payment method customer invoice settings options and that was a top that was like kind of like a top level inside of a nested right so we had the nested object which was customer invoice settings options and we had in there we had default payment method in this case we can also pass invoice settings with custom fields which is a can be a list of custom field options so let&#39;s take a look at that so um this can also take custom fields and custom fields can be a list of custom of customer invoice settings custom field options and let&#39;s see what that looks like so um okay so yeah so this is custom fields is a new list of customer invoice settings custom field options and again the pattern still follows right customer is the top level resource that we&#39;re creating invoice settings is custom is the parent parameter of the param that we&#39;re configuring here and then the actual parameter is custom field so it&#39;s kind of like the sort of um the path down the chain of options that that determines the name of the class for the the object that we&#39;re going to work with here all right so inside of this we want to create a new instance of a customer invoice settings custom field options and those take those take a name and value so the name might be something like v-a-t and the value might be something like abc 123 some such like that okay and again custom fields is nested inside of invoice settings which is going to be sent as part of this update request to update the customer our our api call down here doesn&#39;t change uh we still have a brand new service that we&#39;re initializing and then we&#39;re calling service.update passing in again the id of the customer we want to update and their options in addition to id and email let&#39;s also print out invoice settings just so we can get a close look at what that looks like so if we refresh and rerun our our program here we&#39;ll see that on the right or in the terminal output on the left we see our custom fields inside of our customer invoice settings now include this name and value for value added tax this used to be a common workaround for folks in europe who need to have invoices that are compliant by demonstrating or like displaying the account id the tax id for the merchant and so this was one of the ways you could work around it but it turns out this was such a common use case that this was added as a like a fully supported feature to the api so you can now go into your stripe dashboard and set merchant level tax ids and those will flow through and those can flow through to your invoices so let&#39;s move on to the next thing here that was kind of a kind of a big block right for updating a nested object on the customer we can make a get request to fetch a page from the list of customers with the list method so let&#39;s fetch a list of customers and the way this works is we can create customer list options so we&#39;re going to say new customer list options and maybe we limit this to just like three limit equals three and then we can save our service is equal to new customer service the return value from list methods in stripe.net is going to return this a type called stripe list and the stripe list takes in the type of the stripe type of of each of the objects in the list so it&#39;s kind of like a generic list but it is a special type of list that works with api lists and helps with pagination and such so here we&#39;re going to say stripe list of customer is going to be called customers and that&#39;s equal to service.list service.list and we&#39;re going to pass in paramps or options okay let&#39;s see if that yeah okay so that will return this stripe list object and what we can do is we can say for each uh customer in customers.data and we can sort of like iterate over each of those customers and print out their their id maybe so let&#39;s give this a whirl and there we go so because we&#39;ve limited this to three we only see three customer ids in the output and we are just console logging console logging their ids so stripe.net also supports auto pagination it&#39;s a super handy tool for working with lists so we have an episode all about pagination we show and talk about the list per or the limit param ending before starting after and all the options covered for pagination and how to use auto pagination in the pagination episode so i highly recommend go check out that episode if you&#39;re curious about working with lists in stripe.net so it turns out that the customer list endpoint supports not just fetching the list of customers but also filtering by email so we can also filter the list of customers by email so here we might say like pass in jenny.rosen example.com and this will return a list of customers whose email address is set to this jenny.rosen at example.com and it&#39;s a really common email that i use for demos so hopefully there uh quite a few results here um in fact like we we can we can limit this to maybe like 30 or something right if we run the program we&#39;ll see the ids and the email addresses of several customers here all of these have the same email address jenny rosen at example.com each of the ids are unique and that&#39;s how we uniquely identify objects for your stripe account in stripe is this id for the customer the email address is not a unique identifier for customers within the stripe api so we can filter the list of customers and pass in an email address that will return all of the customers that have this email address and it turns out that i have quite a few on on my demo account with the email address jenny.rosen at example.com so that&#39;s how we can fetch a list of customers filter by email so behind the scenes this is doing a get request to v1 customers with the email address set to jenny.rosen at example example.com and limit equals 30. right so this is this is what this request is doing so these request options are being converted into the query string parameter a get request ascent and then stripe.net is deserializing that into instances of customer objects that we can then sort of work with directly in c sharp move on to the next section here so occasionally you will need to or you may want to delete an object the way that delete generally works is it requires the id of an object to be deleted and let&#39;s just go through the process for deleting a customer so we&#39;re going to say delete a customer and here we&#39;re going to say we&#39;re going to create a service then we&#39;re just going to delete the customer and save it in a variable called customer so service dot delete and then we pass in the the id of the customer so if we run this we will see this deleted property on the returned pro on the returned customer is set to true so the the type that we get back is actually an instance of a customer but they have there&#39;s a property here called deleted and that is set to true so this is kind of like rather than having a class specifically for a deleted customer and then a different class for a customer we just use a single class that has this extra property that&#39;s optional and set to true if the customer is deleted if we pull up the documentation for the payment intent resource you&#39;ll see that there are some additional api methods on the left in addition to the standard crud operations some resources support additional actions also known as custom methods in the case of a payment intent you&#39;ll see the confirm capture and cancel methods these work similar to update api calls but use a special api path and perform a specific action on an underlying object when we veer away from the standard create retrieve update delete and list operations the custom method names follow a verb naming convention so for instance we have dispute dot close payment intent dot confirm charge.capture etc the client library will expose access to custom methods in a predictable way using a name that matches the verb seen in the api reference all right so next up i wanted to demonstrate what we call custom methods first let&#39;s create a payment intent uh to confirm and then second we will uh confirm the payment intent okay so to create a payment intent we&#39;re going to say we need to create some options payment intent create options and they have an amount and that&#39;s going to be let&#39;s say 1 000 so it&#39;s 10 and the currency is going to be set to usd and we&#39;ll call that good and we want to call create a service new payment intent service and this service is going to create an intent and we&#39;re going to say service.create and pass in these options okay and then we&#39;ll just write out the intense id and we will write out the status okay so this is going to be step one right where we&#39;re going to create a new payment and this is nothing new we&#39;ve seen all this before we are just now creating a different type of object no longer a customer we&#39;re creating now a payment intent object so this is an intent to pay eventually so when we create a payment we didn&#39;t specify any payment details credit card details bank account details or anything so at this point the payment intent has an id it&#39;s created its status is requires payment method so the next step here is that we want to confirm the payment intent so in order to confirm the payment intent we&#39;re going to make make use of a custom method and by custom we mean not one of the standard crud methods so it&#39;s not create retrieve update delete list it&#39;s not one of these standard methods it is what we would call a custom method and that is a method on the payment intent endpoint that is specific to confirming a payment intent which is an action that we take on a payment intent to actually like push the payment intent through to to a successful payment and collect payment from some payment details so we&#39;re going to comment this out so that doesn&#39;t happen again we&#39;ve already got a payment intent now we&#39;re going to say var options is equal to a new payment intent confirm options and uh notice that this doesn&#39;t say create it&#39;s confirm and this is going to be the method that we&#39;re calling and we want to say payment method is equal to pm card visa this is again that test card number uh okay so we want to save our service is equal to a new payment intent service and we&#39;re going to save our intent is equal to service dot confirm and pass pass in the options here and then we&#39;re going to write out the intent id and the intent dot status all right let&#39;s give it a whirl ah okay good we got an error here it says you can&#39;t convert from payment intent confirm options to string that&#39;s because i forgot that we need to pass the first argument which is here and this is going to be the string id for the payment intent that we&#39;re confirming and then the options so it&#39;s it&#39;s very much like an update call and i i mentioned it but i forgot it so uh so let&#39;s run this again and now we have uh the same payment intent id ends in yrr and this one ends in yrr but now the payment has succeeded so we&#39;ve collected payment from this test payment test payment card all right so that is how you work with these custom methods so confirm in this case is an example of a custom method some api endpoints are nested under higher level resources so for example when working with a list of lines for an invoice those are accessible through a path which includes the id of the invoice like so sometimes accessing these nested resources requires first fetching an instance of the parent resource in this case an invoice and then second making an api call to list its lines let&#39;s take a look one of the most common use cases is that you want to look at the line items for an invoice you have the id of the invoice and you just want to check out just the line items you want to fetch just the line item so here we might save our options is a new invoice list line items options and maybe we&#39;ll say limit is equal to five this this is going to be the same parameters or the same types of parameters that you would use with a list endpoint with a get list endpoint right so now we&#39;re going to create a new instance of an invoice service so we&#39;re going to say var lines is equal to service dot list line items and then we want to pass in the first argument is going to be the parent resource id the id for the parent resource in this case it&#39;s going to be some invoice id and then the second argument is going to be these options that allow us to sort of pass in list arguments so if if you had an invoice that had i don&#39;t know i don&#39;t know if this is possible i&#39;m sure there&#39;s limits but let&#39;s say your invoice had 100 items and you only wanted the first 20 or something similar you would pass in 20 in the limit here okay so let&#39;s just let&#39;s just write out those lines in underscore is not a real invoice id so let&#39;s find an invoice id i&#39;m going to use the stripe cli here so stripe invoices list i&#39;m going to limit it to one i&#39;m going to pipe that to jq and use this this data with the square bracket operator to grab its id so if i run this i get back string id for an invoice all right so when we run this code it&#39;s going to execute a nested service method and again the nested service method and you can see it down here the url for it is underneath v1 invoices and then the invoice id so this is like this first part of the path is the same as where we would send a get request when retrieving this invoice but then we had we add this additional slash lines to the end and that makes it a nested service method so it&#39;s similar to calling like the list endpoint for line items but because those line items are only related to this specific parent resource in the invoice with this id we refer to this as a nested service method and the way that we access that list is through the parent resource so we pass the parent resources id in thus far our examples have passed data into the client library methods and the client library has form encoded and sent those values to the stripe api either as part of the request body or in the query string params let&#39;s turn to passing configuration options in the request headers headers are most commonly used for authentication versioning and stripe connect you&#39;ll want to refer to the authentication episode to learn about how api keys are passed or to the versioning episode about how to specify the api version in the headers either globally or per request so the particular use case i want to cover briefly here is for stripe connect connect enables you to build a platform to facilitate payments for other sellers or vendors users connect their stripe account to your stripe account and then you can make api calls on their behalf once connected this works by passing the id of the connected account in the http headers let&#39;s take a look at how to pass the connect account id header so first let&#39;s get back to creating a customer on a connected with request headers so i i&#39;m i&#39;m keen to show how request options work so request options essentially allows you to configure the data that is sent in the request headers when making an api call to the stripe api with stripe.net so first we&#39;re going to just create standard options service create the customer i&#39;ll show that i&#39;m going to write that code first then we&#39;ll add in request options so options is new customer create options and we&#39;ll just pass emails equal to you know request options at a example.com and then we want to say like you know service is equal to new customer service and our customer is equal to service dot create and options okay so this is what we&#39;ve seen so far already uh and this is like an exact example from above right we&#39;re passing in a scalar value and we are creating a customer through this customer service now where it gets interesting is we want to create an uh another object here called request options we&#39;re gonna in uh in the documentation and in the code snippets that you see we&#39;ll often name the variable here request options this is really the headers right it&#39;s like the the request headers that are being configured for the request so that um we can attach things like api version per request api keys or the most common use case being stripe connect so here we&#39;re going to create a new instance of request options and in it we&#39;re going to pass the stripe account okay so the the value for the stripe account is going to be the string id for a connected account i happen to have the id for a connected account right here so this account id is not my stripe account id this is the account id of another stripe account which has connected to my platform stripe account and by passing these request options when creating the customer here i am able to create a customer object on this connected account so this this customer will not be created on my account this is not created on my stripe account this is going to be created on this other connected stripe account so this allows you to take actions programmatically on behalf of other stripe users so here we are going to create a customer on the stripe account so we can run this and this is how you pass and configure request options so from the data returned you can&#39;t really tell that this customer lives on a different stripe account but by passing these request options it will configure the request header so that the this newly created customer lives on the other stripe account one way that i can we can just like sort of confirm this is if we grab this customer id and we say stripe customers retrieve and then the customer id we should get no customer found no such customer right because that customer is not on our stripe account it&#39;s on the connected account so then if i say you know stripe customers retrieve stripe dash account by the way i&#39;m using the stripe cli here which is available in windows linux all standard places you would expect i have to also pass my api key here and so that retrieved and found the customer because i passed in the stripe account header this is how you do the same thing but passing the stripe account header in the stripe cli and so because i&#39;m passing that stripe account header it&#39;s retrieving this customer object from that stripe account that we&#39;ve created so it&#39;s very uh quite easy to use once you get used to it but when working with connect you just create these request options pass them as the second argument or the third argument when you&#39;re it&#39;s like the last argument when you&#39;re working with any of these service methods so if you&#39;re if you&#39;re making an update call where you have some id in the beginning cuss underscore whatever right like if this was a service dot update then you would pass it there um for our uses it was in the second argument so so that is how you work with request options in stripe.net as a quick recap in this episode you learn how to make requests to the stripe api to create retrieve update delete and list resources we looked at the api reference documentation covered custom methods nested services and passing request headers for connect thanks so much for watching we&#39;ll see in the next one you

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