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This specification standardizes an API to allow merchants (i.e. web sites selling physical or digital goods) to utilize one or more payment methods with minimal integration. User agents (e.g., browsers) facilitate the payment flow between merchant and user.
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This section is non-normative.
Buying things on the web, particularly on mobile, can be a frustrating experience for users. Every web site has its own flow and its own validation rules, and most require users to manually type in the same set of information over and over again. Likewise, it is difficult and time consuming for developers to create good checkout flows that support various payment schemes.
This specification describes an API that allows user agents (e.g., browsers) to act as an intermediary between three systems in every transaction: the merchant (e.g., an online web store), the buyer represented by the user agent (e.g., the user buying from the online web store), and the Payment Method (e.g., credit card). Information necessary to process and confirm a transaction is passed between the Payment Method and the merchant via the user agent with the buyer confirming and authorizing as necessary across the flow.
In addition to better, more consistent user experiences, this also enables web sites to take advantage of more secure payment schemes (e.g., tokenization and system-level authentication) that are not possible with standard JavaScript libraries. This has the potential to reduce liability for the merchant and helps protect sensitive user information.
A string is a valid decimal monetary value if it consists of the following components in the given order:
^-?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?$
PaymentRequest interface
[Constructor(sequence<PaymentMethodData> methodData, PaymentDetails details, optional PaymentOptions options),
SecureContext]
interface PaymentRequest : EventTarget {
Promise<PaymentResponse> show();
Promise<void> abort();
Promise<boolean> canMakePayment();
readonly attribute PaymentAddress? shippingAddress;
readonly attribute DOMString? shippingOption;
readonly attribute PaymentShippingType? shippingType;
// Supports "shippingaddresschange" event
attribute EventHandler onshippingaddresschange;
// Supports "shippingoptionchange" event
attribute EventHandler onshippingoptionchange;
};
A web page creates a PaymentRequest to make a payment request. This is typically associated with the user initiating a payment process (e.g., selecting a "Power Up" in an interactive game, pulling up to an automated kiosk in a parking structure, or activating a "Buy", "Purchase", or "Checkout" button). The PaymentRequest allows the web page to exchange information with the user agent while the user is providing input before approving or denying a payment request.
The shippingAddress,
shippingOption, and
shippingType attributes are populated during processing if the requestShipping flag is set.
The [SecureContext] extended attribute means that the PaymentRequest is only exposed within a secure
context and won't be accessible elsewhere.
The following example shows how to construct a PaymentRequest and begin the user interaction:
function validateResponse(response){
// check that the response is ok... throw if bad, for example.
}
async function doPaymentRequest() {
const payment = new PaymentRequest(methodData, details, options);
payment.addEventListener("shippingaddresschange", event => {
// Process shipping address change
});
let paymentResponse;
try {
paymentResponse = await payment.show();
// paymentResponse.methodName contains the selected payment method.
// paymentResponse.details contains a payment method specific
// response.
validateResponse(paymentResponse);
paymentResponse.complete("success");
} catch (err) {
console.error("Uh oh, bad payment response!", err.message);
paymentResponse.complete("fail");
}
}
doPaymentRequest();
The PaymentRequest is constructed using the supplied
methodData list including any payment method specific data, the payment details, and the payment options.
The methodData sequence contains
PaymentMethodData dictionaries containing the payment
method identifiers for the payment methods that the web site accepts and any associated payment method specific data.
const methodData = [{
supportedMethods: ["basic-card"]
data: {
supportedNetworks: ['aFamousBrand', 'aDebitNetwork'],
supportedTypes: ['debit']
}
}, {
supportedMethods: ["bobpay.com"],
data: {
merchantIdentifier: "XXXX",
bobPaySpecificField: true
}
}];
const request = new PaymentRequest(methodData, details, options);
The details object contains information about the transaction that the user is being asked to complete such as the line items in an order.
const details = {
displayItems: [
{
label: "Sub-total",
amount: { currency: "USD", value : "55.00" }, // US$55.00
},
{
label: "Sales Tax",
amount: { currency: "USD", value : "5.00" }, // US$5.00
}
],
total: {
label: "Total due",
amount: { currency: "USD", value : "60.00" }, // US$60.00
}
}
const request = new PaymentRequest(methodData, details, options);
The options object contains information about what options the web page wishes to use from the payment request system.
const options = {
requestShipping: true
}
const request = new PaymentRequest(methodData, details, options);
The PaymentRequest constructor MUST act as follows:
TypeError; optionally informing the developer that at least one payment method is required.
supportedMethods sequence is zero, then throw a TypeError; optionally informing the developer that each payment
method needs to include at least one payment method
identifier.
allowpaymentrequest, then
throw a SecurityError.
total, then throw a
TypeError; optionally informing the developer that including a
total is required.
details.total.amount.value is not a
valid decimal monetary value, then throw a TypeError; optionally informing the developer that the value is invalid.
details.total.amount.value is U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, then throw a TypeError; optionally informing the developer that total can't be a negative amount value.
details.displayItems contains any
PaymentItem objects with an amount that is not a valid decimal
monetary value, then throw a TypeError; optionally informing the developer that the value is invalid.
details.shippingOptions contains any PaymentShippingOption objects with an amount that is not a valid
decimal monetary value, then throw a TypeError; optionally informing the developer that the value is invalid.
details contains a value for error, then throw a TypeError.
data field is supplied but is not a JSON-serializable object, then
throw a TypeError.
details.modifiers:
total field is supplied and is not a valid decimal monetary value, then throw a TypeError; optionally informing the developer that the value is invalid.
total field is supplied and the first character of
total.amount.value is U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, then throw a TypeError; optionally informing the developer that the value can't be non-negative amount.
additionalDisplayItems contains any PaymentItem objects with an amount that is not a valid decimal
monetary value, then throw a TypeError; optionally informing the developer that the value is invalid.
PaymentRequest.
Set request.[[methodData]] to methodData.
The methodData supplied to the PaymentRequest constructor SHOULD be in the order of preference of the caller. Implementations MAY show payment methods in this order if possible but SHOULD prioritize the preference of the user when presenting payment methods.
shippingAddress attribute on request to null.
shippingOption attribute on request to null.
shippingType attribute on
request to null.
options.requestShipping is set to true, then set the value of the shippingType attribute on
request to options.shippingType. If
options.shippingType is not a valid
PaymentShippingType value then set the shippingType attribute on
request to "shipping".
details.shippingOptions sequence contains multiple PaymentShippingOption objects that have the same
id, then set the shippingOptions field of
request.[[details]] to an empty sequence.
shippingOptions sequence and if any
PaymentShippingOption in the sequence has the
selected field set to true, then set shippingOption to the
id of the last PaymentShippingOption in the sequence with selected set to true.
show() method
The show method is called when the page wants to begin user interaction for the payment request. The show method returns a Promise that will be resolved when the
user accepts the payment request. Some kind of user interface will be presented to the user to facilitate the payment request after the show method returns.
The show method MUST act as follows:
PaymentRequest object on which the method is called.
supportedMethods sequences from each
PaymentMethodData in the
request.[[methodData]] sequence.
abort() method
The abort method may be called if the web page wishes to tell the user agent to abort the payment request and to tear down any user interface that might be shown.
abort can only be called after the show method has been called and before the
request.[[acceptPromise]] has been resolved. For example, a web page might choose to do this if the goods they are selling are only available for a limited amount of time. If the user does not accept the payment request within the allowed time period, then the request will be aborted.
A user agent might not always be able to abort a request. For example, if the user agent has delegated responsibility for the request to another app. In this situation, abort will reject the returned Promise.
The abort method MUST act as follows:
PaymentRequest object on which the method is called.
canMakePayment() method
The canMakePayment method can be used by the developer to determine if the PaymentRequest object can be used to make a payment, before they call show. It returns a Promise that will be fulfilled with true if the
user agent supports any of the desired payment methods supplied to the PaymentRequest constructor, and false if none are supported. If the method is called too often, the user agent might instead return a promise rejected with a
QuotaExceededError, at its discretion.
The canMakePayment method MUST act as follows:
PaymentRequest object on which the method was called.
This allows user agents to apply heuristics to detect and prevent abuse of the canMakePayment method for fingerprinting purposes, such as creating PaymentRequest objects with a variety of supported payment methods and calling canMakePayment on them one after the other. For example, a user agent may restrict the number of successful calls that can be made based on the top-level browsing context or the time period in which those calls were made.
supportedMethods contains a payment method identifier of a payment
method that the user agent supports, resolve
promise with true, and abort this algorithm.
The internal slot [[state]] follows the following state transitions:
shippingAddress attribute
shippingAddress is populated when the user provides a shipping address. It is null by default. When a user provides a shipping address, the shipping address changed algorithm runs.
onshippingaddresschange is an EventHandler for an Event named shippingaddresschange.
shippingOption attribute
shippingOption is populated when the user chooses a shipping option. It is null by default. When a user chooses a shipping option, the shipping option changed algorithm runs.
onshippingoptionchange is an EventHandler for an Event named shippingoptionchange.
Instances of PaymentRequest are created with the internal slots in the following table:
| Internal Slot | Description (non-normative) |
|---|---|
| [[methodData]] |
The methodData supplied to the constructor.
|
| [[details]] |
The current PaymentDetails for the payment request initially supplied to the constructor and then updated with calls to updateWith.
|
| [[options]] |
The PaymentOptions supplied to the constructor.
|
| [[state]] | The current state of the payment request. |
| [[updating]] |
true is there is a pending updateWith call to update the payment request and false otherwise.
|
| [[acceptPromise]] |
The pending Promise created during show that will be resolved if the user accepts the payment request.
|
PaymentMethodData dictionary
dictionary PaymentMethodData {
required sequence<DOMString> supportedMethods;
object data;
};
A PaymentMethodData dictionary is used to indicate a set of supported payment methods and any associated payment
method specific data for those methods.
The following fields are part of the PaymentMethodData dictionary:
supportedMethods
supportedMethods is a required sequence of strings containing payment method
identifiers for payment methods that the merchant web site accepts.
data
data is a
JSON-serializable object that provides optional information that might be needed by the supported payment methods.
PaymentCurrencyAmount dictionary
dictionary PaymentCurrencyAmount {
required DOMString currency;
required DOMString value;
DOMString currencySystem = "urn:iso:std:iso:4217";
};
A PaymentCurrencyAmount dictionary is used to supply monetary amounts.
The following fields are required:
currencySystem
currency identifier belongs to. By default, the value is urn:iso:std:iso:4217 indicating that currency is defined by [ISO4217] (for example,
USD for US Dollars).
currency
currency can be any string that is valid within the currency system indicated by currencySystem.
value
The following example shows how to represent US$55.00.
{
"currency": "USD",
"value" : "55.00"
}PaymentDetails dictionary
dictionary PaymentDetails {
PaymentItem total;
sequence<PaymentItem> displayItems;
sequence<PaymentShippingOption> shippingOptions;
sequence<PaymentDetailsModifier> modifiers;
DOMString error;
};
The PaymentDetails dictionary is passed to the
PaymentRequest constructor and provides information about the requested transaction. The PaymentDetails dictionary is also used to update the payment request using updateWith.
The following fields are part of the PaymentDetails dictionary:
total
PaymentItem contains the total amount of the payment request.
total MUST be a non-negative value. This means that the total.amount.value field MUST NOT begin with a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS character.
displayItems
PaymentItem dictionaries contains line items for the payment request that the user agent MAY display. For example, it might include details of products or breakdown of tax and shipping. It is optional to provide this information.
It is the developer's responsibility to verify that the total amount is the sum of these items.
shippingOptions
If the sequence is empty, then this indicates that the merchant cannot ship to the current shippingAddress.
If an item in the sequence has the selected field set to true, then this is the shipping option that will be used by default and shippingOption will be set to the id of this option without running the shipping
option changed algorithm. Authors SHOULD NOT set
selected to true on more than one item. If more than one item in the sequence has selected set to true, then user agents MUST select the last one in the sequence.
The shippingOptions field is only used if the
PaymentRequest was constructed with PaymentOptions
requestShipping set to true.
If the sequence has an item with the selected field set to true, then authors are responsible for ensuring that the
total field includes the cost of the shipping option. This is because no shippingoptionchange event will be fired for this option unless the user selects an alternative option first.
modifiers
PaymentDetailsModifier dictionaries contains modifiers for particular payment method identifiers. For example, it allows you to adjust the total amount based on payment method.
error
updateWith, the
PaymentDetails can contain a message in the
error field that will be displayed to the user. For example, this might commonly be used to explain why goods cannot be shipped to the chosen shipping address.
The error field cannot be passed to the
PaymentRequest constructor. Doing so will cause a
TypeError to be thrown.
PaymentDetailsModifier dictionary
dictionary PaymentDetailsModifier {
required sequence<DOMString> supportedMethods;
PaymentItem total;
sequence<PaymentItem> additionalDisplayItems;
object data;
};
The PaymentDetailsModifier dictionary provides details that modify the PaymentDetails based on payment method
identifier. It contains the following fields:
supportedMethods
supportedMethods field contains a sequence of payment method identifiers. The remaining fields in the PaymentDetailsModifier apply only if the user selects a payment method included in this sequence.
total
PaymentItem value overrides the total field in the PaymentDetails dictionary for the payment method
identifiers in the supportedMethods field.
additionalDisplayItems
PaymentItem dictionaries provides additional display items that are appended to the displayItems field in the PaymentDetails dictionary for the payment
method identifiers in the supportedMethods field. This field is commonly used to add a discount or surcharge line item indicating the reason for the different total amount for the selected payment method that the user agent MAY display.
It is the developer's responsibility to verify that the total amount is the sum of the
displayItems and the
additionalDisplayItems.
data
data is a JSON-serializable object that provides optional information that might be needed by the supported payment methods.
PaymentOptions dictionary
enum PaymentShippingType { "shipping", "delivery", "pickup" }; dictionaryPaymentOptions{ booleanrequestPayerName= false; booleanrequestPayerEmail= false; booleanrequestPayerPhone= false; booleanrequestShipping= false; DOMStringshippingType= "shipping"; };
The PaymentOptions dictionary is passed to the
PaymentRequest constructor and provides information about the options desired for the payment request.
The following fields MAY be passed to the PaymentRequest constructor:
requestPayerName
requestPayerEmail
requestPayerPhone
requestShipping
shippingType
requestShipping is set to true, then the
shippingType field may be used to influence the way the
user agent presents the user interface for gathering the shipping address.
The PaymentShippingType supports the following values:
shipping
delivery
pickup
The shippingType field only affects the user interface for the payment request.
PaymentItem dictionary
dictionary PaymentItem {
required DOMString label;
required PaymentCurrencyAmount amount;
boolean pending = false;
};
A sequence of one or more PaymentItem dictionaries is included in the PaymentDetails dictionary to indicate what the payment request is for and the value asked for.
The following fields are required:
label
amount
PaymentCurrencyAmount containing the monetary amount for the item.
pending
amount field is not final. This is commonly used to show items such as shipping or tax amounts that depend upon selection of shipping address or shipping option. User agents MAY indicate pending fields in the user interface for the payment request.
PaymentAddress interface
[SecureContext]
interface PaymentAddress {
serializer = {attribute};
readonly attribute DOMString country;
readonly attribute FrozenArray<DOMString> addressLine;
readonly attribute DOMString region;
readonly attribute DOMString city;
readonly attribute DOMString dependentLocality;
readonly attribute DOMString postalCode;
readonly attribute DOMString sortingCode;
readonly attribute DOMString languageCode;
readonly attribute DOMString organization;
readonly attribute DOMString recipient;
readonly attribute DOMString phone;
};
country
addressLine
region
city
dependentLocality
postalCode
sortingCode
languageCode
organization
recipient
phone
If the requestShipping flag was set to true in the PaymentOptions passed to the
PaymentRequest constructor, then the user agent will populate the shippingAddress field of the
PaymentRequest and ultimately the PaymentResponse object with the user's selected shipping address after the user has accepted the payment.
PaymentShippingOption dictionary
dictionary PaymentShippingOption {
required DOMString id;
required DOMString label;
required PaymentCurrencyAmount amount;
boolean selected = false;
};
The PaymentShippingOption dictionary has fields describing a shipping option. A web page can provide the user with one or more shipping options by calling the updateWith method in response to a change event.
The following fields are required:
id
PaymentShippingOption. It MUST be unique for a given
PaymentRequest.
label
amount
PaymentCurrencyAmount containing the monetary amount for the item.
selected
PaymentShippingOption in a sequence. User agents SHOULD display this option by default in the user interface.
PaymentResponse interface
enumPaymentComplete{ "success", "fail", "unknown" }; [SecureContext] interfacePaymentResponse{ serializer = {attribute}; readonly attribute DOMStringmethodName; readonly attribute objectdetails; readonly attributePaymentAddress?shippingAddress; readonly attribute DOMString?shippingOption; readonly attribute DOMString?payerName; readonly attribute DOMString?payerEmail; readonly attribute DOMString?payerPhone; Promise<void>complete(optionalPaymentCompleteresult = "unknown"); };
A PaymentResponse is returned when a user has selected a payment method and approved a payment request. It contains the following fields:
methodName
details
shippingAddress
requestShipping flag was set to true in the PaymentOptions passed to the PaymentRequest constructor, then shippingAddress will be the full and final shipping address chosen by the user.
shippingOption
requestShipping flag was set to true in the PaymentOptions passed to the PaymentRequest constructor, then shippingOption will be the
id attribute of the selected shipping option.
payerName
requestPayerName flag was set to true in the PaymentOptions passed to the
PaymentRequest constructor, then payerName will be the name provided by the user.
payerEmail
requestPayerEmail flag was set to true in the PaymentOptions passed to the
PaymentRequest constructor, then payerEmail will be the email address chosen by the user.
payerPhone
requestPayerPhone flag was set to true in the PaymentOptions passed to the
PaymentRequest constructor, then payerPhone will be the phone number chosen by the user.
complete() method
The complete method is called after the user has accepted the payment request and the [[acceptPromise]] has been resolved. Calling the complete method tells the user
agent that the user interaction is over (and SHOULD cause any remaining user interface to be closed).
The complete method takes a string argument from the
PaymentComplete enum (result). These values are used to influence the user experience provided by the user
agent when the user interface is dismissed. The value of
result has the following meaning:
success"
fail"
unknown"
result.
After the payment request has been accepted and the
PaymentResponse returned to the page but before the page calls complete the payment request user interface remains in a pending state. At this point the user interface ought not offer a cancel command because acceptance of the payment request has been returned. However, if something goes wrong and the page never calls complete then the user interface is blocked.
For this reason, implementations may choose to impose a timeout for the page to call complete. If the timeout expires then the implementation will behave as if complete was called with no arguments.
The complete method MUST act as follows:
result to influence the user experience. User agents SHOULD treat unrecognized
result values as the value "unknown".
Instances of PaymentResponse are created with the internal slots in the following table:
| Internal Slot | Description (non-normative) |
|---|---|
| [[completeCalled]] |
true if the complete method has been called and false otherwise.
|
iframe elements
This section is non-normative.
To indicate that a cross-origin iframe is allowed to invoke the payment request API, the
allowpaymentrequest attribute can be specified on the iframe element.
This section is non-normative.
| Event name | Interface | Dispatched when... |
|---|---|---|
shippingaddresschange
|
PaymentRequestUpdateEvent
|
The user provides a new shipping address. |
shippingoptionchange
|
PaymentRequestUpdateEvent
|
The user chooses a new shipping option. |
PaymentRequestUpdateEvent interface
[Constructor(DOMString type, optionalPaymentRequestUpdateEventIniteventInitDict), SecureContext] interface PaymentRequestUpdateEvent : Event { voidupdateWith(Promise<PaymentDetails> d); }; dictionary PaymentRequestUpdateEventInit : EventInit { };
The PaymentRequestUpdateEvent enables the web page to update the details of the payment request in response to a user interaction.
If the web page wishes to update the payment request then it should call updateWith and provide a promise that will resolve with a PaymentDetails dictionary containing changed values that the user agent
SHOULD present to the user.
The PaymentRequestUpdateEvent constructor MUST set the internal slot [[waitForUpdate]] to false.
updateWith() method
The updateWith method MUST act as follows:
PaymentRequestUpdateEvent event's target attribute.
PaymentRequest object, then throw a TypeError.
The user agent SHOULD disable any part of the user interface that could cause another update event to be fired. Only one update may be processed at a time.
Return from the method and perform the remaining steps in parallel.
The remaining steps are conditional on the promise d settling. If d never settles then the payment request is blocked. Users should always be able to cancel a payment request. Implementations may choose to implement a timeout for pending updates if d doesn't settle in a reasonable amount of time. If an implementation chooses to implement a timeout, they must execute the steps listed below in the "upon rejection" path. Such a timeout is a fatal error for the payment request.
User agents might show an error message to the user when this occurs.
PaymentDetails dictionary. If this throws an exception, abort these substeps, and optionally show an error message to the user.
total member of details is present, then:
total.amount.value.
total to the total field of
target.[[details]]. (Negative total amounts are ignored.)
displayItems member of
details is present, then:
PaymentItem in
details.displayItems has an
amount.value containing a
valid decimal monetary value, then copy
details.displayItems to the
displayItems field of target.[[details]].
PaymentDetailsModifier
modifier in modifiers:
total member of
modifier is present and
member.total.amount.value is not a
valid decimal monetary value, then set
modifiers to an empty sequence, and jump to the step labeled copy modifiers below.
additionalDisplayItems member of modifier is present, then for each
PaymentItem item in
modifier.additionalDisplayItems:
amount.value.
shippingOptions member of
details is present, and
target.[[options]].requestShipping is true, then:
shippingOptions.
amount.value is not a
valid decimal monetary value, then set
options to the empty sequence and break.
id, then set
options to an empty sequence and break.
id to
seenIDs.
shippingOptions field of target.[[details]].
error member of details is present, then the user agent should update the user interface to display the error message contained in error.
When the internal slot [[state]] of a PaymentRequest object is set to interactive, the user agent will trigger the following algorithms based on user interaction.
The shipping address changed algorithm runs when the user provides a new shipping address. It MUST run the following steps:
PaymentRequest object that the user is interacting with.
shippingAddress attribute on
request to the shipping address provided by the user.
The shipping option changed algorithm runs when the user chooses a new shipping option. It MUST run the following steps:
PaymentRequest object that the user is interacting with.
shippingOption attribute on
request to the id string of the
PaymentShippingOption provided by the user.
The PaymentRequest updated algorithm is run by other algorithms above to fire an event to indicate that a user has made a change to a PaymentRequest called request with an event name of name.
It MUST run the following steps:
PaymentRequestUpdateEvent.
The user accepts the payment request algorithm runs when the user accepts the payment request and confirms that they want to pay. It MUST run the following steps:
PaymentRequest object that the user is interacting with.
requestShipping value of
request.[[options]] is true, then if the
shippingAddress attribute of request is
null or if the shippingOption attribute of
request is null, then terminate this algorithm and take no further action. This should never occur.
PaymentResponse.
methodName attribute value of
response to the payment method identifier for the
payment method that the user selected to accept the payment.
details attribute value of
response to a JSON-serializable object containing the payment method specific message that will be used by the merchant to process the transaction. The format of this response will be defined for each payment method.
requestShipping value of
request.[[options]] is true, then copy the
shippingAddress attribute of request to the
shippingAddress attribute of response.
requestShipping value of
request.[[options]] is true, then copy the
shippingOption attribute of request to the
shippingOption attribute of response.
requestPayerName value of
request.[[options]] is true, then set the
payerName attribute of
response to the payer's name provided by the user.
requestPayerEmail value of
request.[[options]] is true, then set the
payerEmail attribute of
response to the payer's email address selected by the user.
requestPayerPhone value of
request.[[options]] is true, then set the
payerPhone attribute of response to the payer's phone number selected by the user.
This section is non-normative.
This section is a placeholder to record security considerations as we gather them through working group discussion.
The PaymentRequest API does not directly support encryption of data fields. Individual payment methods may choose to include support for encrypted data but it is not mandatory that all
payment methods support this.
This section is non-normative.
This section is a placeholder to record privacy considerations as we gather them through working group discussion.
The user agent MUST NOT share information about the user to the web page (such as the shipping address) without user consent.
A page might try to call the payment request API repeatedly with only one payment method identifier to try to determine what payment methods a user agent has installed. There may be legitimate scenarios for calling repeatedly (for example, to control the order of payment method selection). The fact that a successful match to a payment method causes a user interface to be displayed mitigates the disclosure risk. Implementations may also require a user action to initiate a payment request or they may choose to rate limit the calls to the API to prevent too many repeated calls.
This specification relies on several other underlying specifications.
TypeError, JSON.stringify, and
JSON.parse are defined by [ECMA-262-2015].
The term JSON-serializable object used in this specification means an object that can be serialized to a string using JSON.stringify and later deserialized back to an object using JSON.parse with no loss of data.
DOMException and the following DOMException types from [ DOM4] are used:
| Type | Message (optional) |
|---|---|
| AbortError | The payment request was aborted |
| InvalidStateError | The object is in an invalid state |
| NotSupportedError | The payment method was not supported |
| QuotaExceededError |
The canMakePayment method was called too often according to the user agent's heuristics.
|
| SecurityError | The operation is only supported in a secure context |
The term extended attribute is defined by [WEBIDL-2].
The algorithm for converting an ECMAScript value to a dictionary is defined by [WEBIDL-2].
As well as sections marked as non-normative, all authoring guidelines, diagrams, examples, and notes in this specification are non-normative. Everything else in this specification is normative.
The key words MAY, MUST, MUST NOT, SHOULD, and SHOULD NOT are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
There is only one class of product that can claim conformance to this specification: a user agent.
Although this specification is primarily targeted at web browsers, it is feasible that other software could also implement this specification in a conforming manner.
User agents MAY implement algorithms given in this specification in any way desired, so long as the end result is indistinguishable from the result that would be obtained by the specification's algorithms.