Setting a field to null?

[clement911]

If I understand correctly, setting an option's property to null will cause the field to not be sent over the wire.

If that is the case, how I can actually set a field to a null value (i.e clearing the value).

For example, if I want to clear the customer's phone number.

I can set CustomerUpdateOptions.Phone to null. But it won't be serialized at all right?

Unless I'm missing something obvious here...

[remi-stripe]

@clement911 In the API, if you pass an empty string it will unset the string field.

var options2 = new CustomerUpdateOptions {
  Email = "",
  Phone = "",
};
Customer customer2 = service.Update(customer.Id, options2);

This would return email: null and phone: null in the API.

[clement911]

What if I want to set an empty string?
What about other types such as numerics and dates and bools?

[remi-stripe]

You can't set an empty string in that case, it will just set the field to null already. This is how the API itself works, so it's not really specific to stripe-dotnet.

You can not unset number of booleans with stripe-dotnet though our API rarely supports this in the first place.

[clement911]

hmm ok.
Seems like quite a limitation...

[clement911]

Although I'm not sure if it's a big deal in practice...

[remi-stripe]

In my experience, it's not. Most booleans are set to true or false, we rarely have a null "state". We're also moving more to enums instead to represent the "true/false/unset" state where it matters.

[clement911]

Ok, thanks for the quick response.