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Golang Gin Stripe Configuration

This is a small "Hello, World!" to show a charge being made for Golang + Gin web server.

Resources

  1. Go Docs Stripe
  2. Stripe API
  3. Stripe Testing Cards
  4. Github Stripe Go Charge Testing
  5. Gin Github
  6. Golang Dotenv Github

Setting up

We need a few libs to get this all going. Run the following to fetch prerequisite packages:

# Gin server lib go get -u github.com/gin-gonic/gin # Stripe Go API go get github.com/stripe/stripe-go # Dotenv package for Golang go get github.com/joho/godotenv

Setting up main.go

The Golang API (in my opinion) has some more complexity as opposed to others for setting up a basic charge.

Reading over their tests (like resource [4]) is the perfect way to see how to conform and adhere to the types -- particularly for our basic example.

package main import ( "log" "net/http" "os" "github.com/gin-gonic/gin" "github.com/joho/godotenv" "github.com/stripe/stripe-go" "github.com/stripe/stripe-go/charge" ) // ChargeJSON incoming data for Stripe API type ChargeJSON struct { Amount int64 `json:"amount"` ReceiptEmail string `json:"receiptEmail"` } func main() { // load .env file err := godotenv.Load() if err != nil { log.Fatal("Error loading .env file") } // set up server r := gin.Default() // basic hello world GET route r.GET("/", func(c *gin.Context) { c.JSON(200, gin.H{ "message": "Hello, World!", }) }) // our basic charge API route r.POST("/api/charge", func(c *gin.Context) { // we will bind our JSON body to the `json` var var json ChargeJSON c.BindJSON(&json) // Set Stripe API key apiKey := os.Getenv("SK_TEST_KEY") stripe.Key = apiKey // Attempt to make the charge. // We are setting the charge response to _ // as we are not using it. _, err := charge.New(&stripe.ChargeParams{ Amount: stripe.Int64(json.Amount), Currency: stripe.String(string(stripe.CurrencyUSD)), Source: &stripe.SourceParams{Token: stripe.String("tok_visa")}, // this should come from clientside ReceiptEmail: stripe.String(json.ReceiptEmail)}) if err != nil { // Handle any errors from attempt to charge c.String(http.StatusBadRequest, "Request failed") return } c.String(http.StatusCreated, "Successfully charged") }) r.Run(":8080") }

Making A Test Charge

We can run our server with the following:

go run main.go

In another terminal, run http POST http://localhost:8080/api/charge amount:=500 receiptEmail=hello@example.com (using HTTPie) and we will get back Successfully charged! Hooray! We made it.

Repository

https://github.com/okeeffed/developer-notes-nextjs/content/stripe/configuration/gin-stripe-configuration

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