Get all of a Braintree customer's subscriptions via their payment methods

TL;DR

In Ruby that is customer.credit_cards.map(&:subscriptions).flatten, one fetch instead of the transaction crawl.

Steps

1. Go through the customer's payment methods: a customer has a creditcards array and each card carries a subscriptions array. In Ruby that is customer.creditcards.map(&:subscriptions).flatten, one fetch instead of the transaction crawl. The same shape exists in the other SDKs, each payment method object exposes its subscriptions, so iterate the customer's payment methods and collect them.

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Versions

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Why this happens

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Source: Stack Overflow #15910980 (accepted answer from a Braintree employee, 30 votes): The reporter could see a customer's subscriptions in the gateway dashboard but found no direct way to fetch them via the API. Their workaround, pulling every transaction and then resolving each subscription_id, was slow and chatty. They wanted a direct path from customer to subscriptions.

Verified resolution: Go through the customer's payment methods: a customer has a creditcards array and each card carries a subscriptions array. In Ruby that is customer.creditcards.map(&:subscriptions).flatten, one fetch instead of the transaction crawl. The same shape exists in the other SDKs, each payment method object exposes its subscriptions, so iterate the customer's payment methods and collect them.

Source URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15910980