How to retrieve the supported card types in Braintree v5?

[alecarnevale]

Hi there.

1. Context
We are migrating from version 4.x to 5.x and we are finding a problem with the BraintreeClient. We know that, as stated in the migration doc, instantiating a BraintreeClient is no more needed to create instance of other clients (CarClient, Paypal, GooglePay...).

However, we are using BraintreeClient not only to instantiate other clients but also to retrieve the Braintree Configuration through the BraintreeClient::getConfiguration method.

2. Use case
We are using the Configuration to retrieve the supportedCartTypes. Our use case is to check the user's card type against the supported ones before starting the tokenization flow - and feedback our users if they typed an unsupported card.

3. Problem
So, while switching to the version 5, BraintreeClient::getConfiguration is still there as for Configuration.supportedCartTypes but BraintreeClient is now mark as restricted to the library.

4. Question
Is there another way to retrieve the Configuration without usage of the BraintreeClient? Or is there another way to check what card types are available for the current Braintree configuration?

[sarahkoop]

Hi @alecarnevale - this feature is not currently supported on v5, but I will add this to our feature requests and post an update here if this is something we can add!

[lesbiangunshow]

+1, we use the configuration also to see if a particular integration is enabled. Is there another way to do this?
For clarity, we need to do this dynamically because our app is whitelabaled and rolls out our code to different braintree instances