Stripe: Retrieve a test clock
Stripe testHelpers.getTestHelpersTestClocksTestClock: arguments, response, policy and SDK examples.
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Operation stripe.gettesthelperstestclockstestclock
Provider route: GET /v1/test_helpers/test_clocks/{test_clock}. Alter supplies the connection’s credentials and routing.
Call through Alter
Section titled “Call through Alter”Install @alter-ai/sdk @alter-ai/stripe with npm, or alter-sdk-stripe with pip. Supply your connected customer’s grant ID and the arguments described below.
import { App } from "@alter-ai/sdk";import { StripeIntegration } from "@alter-ai/stripe";
async function execute(input: Parameters<StripeIntegration["testHelpers"]["getTestHelpersTestClocksTestClock"]>[0]) { const app = new App({ apiKey: process.env.ALTER_API_KEY! }); try { const provider = new StripeIntegration(app, { grantId: process.env.PROVIDER_GRANT_ID! }); const call = await provider.testHelpers.getTestHelpersTestClocksTestClock(input); const result = await call.wait(); return result.bodyJson(); } finally { await app.close(); }}import osfrom alter_sdk import Appfrom alter_sdk_stripe import StripeIntegration
async def execute(arguments): async with App(api_key=os.environ["ALTER_API_KEY"]) as app: provider = StripeIntegration(app, {"grant_id": os.environ["PROVIDER_GRANT_ID"]}) call = await provider.test_helpers.get_test_helpers_test_clocks_test_clock(arguments) result = await call.wait() return result.body_json()| Field | Type | Presence | Description and constraints |
|---|---|---|---|
$ | object | Root | Additional keys: not allowed |
path | object | Required within parent | Additional keys: not allowed |
path.test_clock | string | Required within parent | Maximum length: 5000 |
query | object | Optional | Additional keys: not allowed |
query.expand | array | Optional | |
query.expand[] | string | Each item | Maximum length: 5000 |
Response
Section titled “Response”Response media type: application/json. The table describes the pinned successful response. Referenced models link to their complete fields.
| Field | Type | Presence | Description and constraints |
|---|---|---|---|
$ | Model | Root | Expand Create a test clock — response body |
Referenced models: Create a test clock — response body
Schemas
Section titled “Schemas”Create a test clock — response body
| Field | Type | Presence | Description and constraints |
|---|---|---|---|
$ | object | Root | A test clock enables deterministic control over objects in testmode. With a test clock, you can create objects at a frozen time in the past or future, and advance to a specific future time to observe webhooks and state changes. After the clock advances, you can either validate the current state of your scenario (and test your assumptions), change the current state of your scenario (and test more complex scenarios), or keep advancing forward in time. |
created | JSON | Required within parent | |
created (anyOf 1) | integer | Alternative | Time at which the object was created. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch. Format: unix-time |
created (anyOf 2) | string | Alternative | Pattern: ^-?[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?(?:[eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?$ |
deletes_after | JSON | Required within parent | |
deletes_after (anyOf 1) | integer | Alternative | Time at which this clock is scheduled to auto delete. Format: unix-time |
deletes_after (anyOf 2) | string | Alternative | Pattern: ^-?[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?(?:[eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?$ |
frozen_time | JSON | Required within parent | |
frozen_time (anyOf 1) | integer | Alternative | Time at which all objects belonging to this clock are frozen. Format: unix-time |
frozen_time (anyOf 2) | string | Alternative | Pattern: ^-?[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?(?:[eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?$ |
id | string | Required within parent | Unique identifier for the object. Maximum length: 5000 |
livemode | boolean | Required within parent | If the object exists in live mode, the value is `true`. If the object exists in test mode, the value is `false`. |
name | JSON | Optional | |
name (anyOf 1) | string | Alternative | The custom name supplied at creation. Maximum length: 5000 |
name (anyOf 2) | null | Alternative | |
object | string | Required within parent | String representing the object's type. Objects of the same type share the same value. Known values: test_helpers.test_clock |
status | string | Required within parent | The status of the Test Clock. Known values: advancing, internal_failure, ready |
status_details | Model | Required within parent | Expand Create a test clock — response body — status details |
Referenced models: Create a test clock — response body — status details
Create a test clock — response body — status details
| Field | Type | Presence | Description and constraints |
|---|---|---|---|
$ | object | Root | |
advancing | Model | Optional | Expand Create a test clock — response body — status details advancing |
Referenced models: Create a test clock — response body — status details advancing
Create a test clock — response body — status details advancing
| Field | Type | Presence | Description and constraints |
|---|---|---|---|
$ | object | Root | |
target_frozen_time | JSON | Required within parent | |
target_frozen_time (anyOf 1) | integer | Alternative | The `frozen_time` that the Test Clock is advancing towards. Format: unix-time |
target_frozen_time (anyOf 2) | string | Alternative | Pattern: ^-?[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?(?:[eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?$ |
Policy, approvals and errors
Section titled “Policy, approvals and errors”SDK function policy ID: stripe.gettesthelperstestclockstestclock. Catalog operation: GetTestHelpersTestClocksTestClock. Rules can name either ID; function rules distinguish managed calls and conservatively cover raw calls sharing the route. Existing grant permissions and policy rules apply. wait() returns an immediate result or waits for a required approval; it never approves the request itself. Persist the approval ID to resume after a restart.
Provider errors retain their response; JSON decoding raises ProviderAPIError for provider failures. ManagedOperationError identifies contract/input/retention errors. See error handling and provider-specific behavior. Sensitive input may be refused before approval storage. A decoding error never resubmits a write.
Pinned headers: {"Stripe-Version": "2026-09-30.endive"}