Integrate MULE ESB with Stripe

By Ramakrishna Narkedamilli

Overview:

MuleSoft is a popular ESB technology to integrate Different on-premise and cloud applications for data exchange. Stripe is an American company that allows both private individuals and businesses to accept payments over the Internet. Stripe specifically focuses on providing the technical, fraud prevention, and banking infrastructure required to operate online payment systems. The Mule Stripe Connector enables developers to interact with Stripe API to accept payments, create invoices, coupons, cards and other various actions

Prerequisites:

Stripe developer account. Stripe API key. Mule Anypoint Stripe connector.

Stripe Developer Account Setup:

For this sample purpose, we need developer Stripe account. We can sign up for free at https://dashboard.stripe.com/login

Stripe API key Value:

Stripe developer account provides various options to control the communication between Stripe API to other applications. To access the full features of Stripe and connect with it, we need Stripe API key (For Test environment use Test Secret key). These values available under Stripe Account settings

Mule Anypoint Stripe Connector:

Stripe is a online payment provider. Mule Stripe connector gives the options to integrate Stripe to perform the below options

CRUD for Customers Accepts Payments CRUD for Coupons Create Invoices , plans , subscriptions etc.

MULE ESB Flows for Stripe Integration

The below Mule application is used to create Customer and Coupon under Stripe using Mule Anypoint Stripe connector

Steps to be followed for integrating ‘Stripe’ with MuleSoft Applications:

Install the Stripe Connector in Anypoint Studio (3.5 and above)http://repository.mulesoft.org/connectors/releases/3.5

Create a new Anypoint Studio Project and Flow to create customer and coupon Configure the Stripe global element in global elements section by providing the

Stripe API key

In the flow first add HTTP inbound endpoint to trigger the service.

Add choice router to route the control to create customer or create coupon based on request action query parameter.

Now at this position we are integrated with Stripe to perform actions.

Running and Testing the Application:

Right-click on the application Run Mule Application. Open the browser and hit the URL http

://localhost:8084/?action=createCustomer&customerEmail=test25@gmail.com.

Service will create the new customer in Stripe account in case of no errors.

Now, trigger the URL http://localhost:8084/?action=createCoupon&couponID=25PercentFestivalDiscount&percentOffpercentOff=5

Service will create new coupon under coupons sections if there no errors.

Customer Creation under Stripe:

Coupon Creation under Stripe:

THANKS YOU By Ramakrishna Narkedamilli