How to get the plans of a product using stripe-java or rest api

Question

This question is about Stripe java (or REST) api, currently version 2019-05-16 .

We have created one product manually through stripe dashboard and have attached three plans to it, one for monthly, quarterly and yearly payments respectively.

Now if I try to get this product through the REST api (same result using stripe-java ) by doing:

 curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/products/prod_...... \
  -u sk_test_........:

I get indeed the product object described in the documentation , which has no plans attribute on it.

However, if I inspect the requests made by the stripe dashboard itself while visiting the products' page, I can see that in this case the products are indeed retrieved with their respective plans attached to it (see "plans" in image below right bottom corner). So I guess the dashboard is using another api, perhaps a more convenient one.

My question is, how can I get all the plans of a product given its product id ? I guess I can get instead all the plans and then filter by product id effectively getting what I want, however this looks to me more like a hack. What are the best practices here?

Why the dashboard api would be different in any case? Thanks all of you in advance.

Answer 1

According to the documentation you can list all the plans filtered by the product:

https://stripe.com/docs/api/plans/list#list_plans-product

Adding the product id as parameter:

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/plans?product=prod_id ...

product optional

Only return plans for the given product.