Try/catch with Stripe API

Something that didn't occur to me before now on building this app is how to handle errors that don't come from my own code.

I have an AccountController that shows the users subscription status and a list of previous charges on Stripe.

However, when I logged in tonight, and it tried to pull from Stripe, their API had issues. Now I do have a try/catch statement

try {
           Stripe::setApiKey(env('STRIPE_SECRET'));

            $invoices = $user->invoices();

        } catch (\Exception $ex) {
            return $ex->getMessage();
        }

However, the returned message is just text. I wish to return that error to my view as well as give all the other data pertaining to account.

rawilk

7 years ago

Level 47

You can return whatever kind of response you need to from the catch part, or even throw another exception if needed.

1stevengrant

7 years ago

Level 6

thanks @wilk_randall - does that mean something like

session()->flash('alert', 'Looks like we have an issue here: '.$ex->getMessage());
return back();

would still show my user the rest of their account info but also show the error (assuming I'm handling that flash message in the view)?

rawilk

7 years ago

Level 47

@1stevengrant - Yea you should be able to.

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