Allow to operate without storing anything in database

[pszpetkowski]

Some people might wish to be able to disable storing payment related data in database and to have everything processed "on the fly". Some of the other people might wish to disable just the indicated parts. Use of case of such feature might be for example a website which accepts anonymous donations (charity?).

Such feature might be controlled through few various scopes:

# settings.py

REST_PAYMENTS = {
    # ...
    'USE_DB': False,
}

# some_integration.py

class Charge:
    def create(self, amount=None, currency=None, **kwargs):
        use_db = kwargs.get('use_db'):
        if use_db is not None:
            self.use_db = use_db

// optional param to REST request

{
    "amount": 1000,
    "currency": "usd",
    "use_db": false,
}

Just like in Python local scope would override the global (settings scope).

[pawelswiecki]

No db-payments -- I like this idea! I'd treat no-db cases not as configuration thing, though. I'd treat them as whole different business case than payments that leave something in the db (may it be only payment Stripe ID). This way we'd avoid if self.use_db ... else ... all over the place.