hyperswitch-prism

Hyperswitch Prism — Python SDK

A high-performance, type-safe Python SDK for payment processing through Hyperswitch Prism. Connect to 100+ payment processors through a single, unified API.

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Features

• 🚀 High Performance — Direct UniFFI FFI bindings to Rust core
• 🔌 100+ Connectors — Single SDK for all major payment processors
• 🐍 Python Native — Full Python bindings with type hints
• ⚡ Connection Pooling — Built-in HTTP connection pooling via httpx
• 🛡️ Type-Safe — Protobuf-based request/response serialization
• 🔧 Configurable — Per-request or global configuration for timeouts, proxies, and auth

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Use curl to fetch the SDK reference:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/juspay/hyperswitch-prism/main/llm/llm.txt

This file contains complete SDK documentation including installation, payment operations, error handling, connector configuration, field probe data, and examples for all 100+ connectors.

AI Assistant Context

This SDK is part of Hyperswitch Prism — a unified connector library for payment processors.

What This SDK Does

1. Request Transformation: Converts unified payment requests to connector-specific formats
2. Response Normalization: Transforms connector responses back to a unified schema
3. Error Handling: Provides consistent error types (IntegrationError, ConnectorError, NetworkError) regardless of connector

Architecture

Your Python App
       │
       ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Service Clients (PaymentClient, CustomerClient, etc.)       │
└───────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
                            │
                            ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  ConnectorClient (httpx connection pool + HTTP execution)    │
└───────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
                            │
                            ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  UniFFI FFI Bindings (connector_service_ffi.py)              │
└───────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
                            │
                            ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Rust Core (connector transformation logic)                  │
└───────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
                            │
                            ▼
              Payment Processor APIs

Key Files

File	Purpose
src/payments/__init__.py	Public API exports (clients, types, errors)
src/payments/connector_client.py	HTTP execution layer with httpx
src/payments/generated/connector_service_ffi.py	UniFFI-generated FFI bindings
src/payments/generated/payment_pb2.py	Protobuf message definitions

Package & Import

• Package Name: hyperswitch-prism
• Installation: pip install hyperswitch-prism
• Import: from payments import PaymentClient

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Installation

pip install hyperswitch-prism

Once installed, the package is imported as payments:

from payments import PaymentClient

Requirements:

• Python 3.9+
• Rust toolchain (for building native bindings from source)

Platform Support:

• ✅ macOS (x64, arm64)
• ✅ Linux (x64, arm64)
• ✅ Windows (x64)

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Quick Start

1. Configure the Client

import os
from payments import PaymentClient, SecretString
from payments.generated import sdk_config_pb2, payment_pb2

# Configure your connector
# See SDK reference for specific authentication patterns per connector
cfg = sdk_config_pb2.ConnectorConfig(
    options=sdk_config_pb2.SdkOptions(environment=sdk_config_pb2.Environment.SANDBOX)
)
# Set connector-specific config here
cfg.connector_config.CopyFrom(payment_pb2.ConnectorSpecificConfig(
    # Configure your connector (e.g., stripe, adyen, etc.)
))

2. Process a Payment

import asyncio
from google.protobuf.json_format import ParseDict

req = ParseDict(
    {
        "merchant_transaction_id": "txn_order_001",
        "amount": {
            "minorAmount": 1000,
            "currency": "USD"
        },
        "capture_method": "AUTOMATIC",
        "payment_method": {
            "card": {
                "card_number": {"value": "4111111111111111"},
                "card_exp_month": {"value": "12"},
                "card_exp_year": {"value": "2030"},
                "card_cvc": {"value": "123"},
                "card_holder_name": {"value": "John Doe"}
            }
        },
        "address": {"billing_address": {}},
        "auth_type": "NO_THREE_DS",
        "return_url": "https://example.com/return",
        "order_details": []
    },
    payment_pb2.PaymentServiceAuthorizeRequest()
)

async def run():
    client = PaymentClient(cfg)
    resp = await client.authorize(req)
    print(payment_pb2.PaymentStatus.Name(resp.status))
    print(resp.connector_transaction_id)

asyncio.run(run())

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Service Clients

Client	Purpose	Key Methods
PaymentClient	Core payment operations	authorize(), capture(), refund(), void()
CustomerClient	Customer management	create()
PaymentMethodClient	Secure tokenization	tokenize()
MerchantAuthenticationClient	Auth token management	create_server_authentication_token(), create_server_session_authentication_token(), create_client_authentication_token()
EventClient	Webhook processing	handle_event()
RecurringPaymentClient	Subscription billing	charge()
PaymentMethodAuthenticationClient	3DS authentication	pre_authenticate(), authenticate(), post_authenticate()

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Advanced Configuration

Proxy Settings

from payments import types

proxy_config: types.RequestConfig = {
    "http": {
        "proxy": {
            "httpsUrl": "https://proxy.company.com:8443",
            "bypassUrls": ["http://localhost"]
        }
    }
}

Per-Request Overrides

response = client.authorize(request, {
    "http": {
        "totalTimeoutMs": 60000
    }
})

Connection Pooling

Each client instance maintains its own connection pool. For best performance:

# Create client once, reuse for multiple requests
client = PaymentClient(config, defaults)

for payment in payments:
    client.authorize(payment)

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Error Handling

from payments import IntegrationError, ConnectorError

try:
    response = client.authorize(request)
except IntegrationError as e:
    # Request-phase error (auth, URL construction, serialization, etc.)
    print(f"Code: {e.error_code}")
    print(f"Status: {e.status_code}")
    print(f"Message: {e.message}")
except ConnectorError as e:
    # Response-phase error (deserialization, transformation, etc.)
    print(f"Code: {e.error_code}")
    print(f"Status: {e.status_code}")
    print(f"Message: {e.message}")

Error Codes

Code	Description
CONNECT_TIMEOUT	Failed to establish connection
RESPONSE_TIMEOUT	No response received from gateway
TOTAL_TIMEOUT	Overall request timeout exceeded
NETWORK_FAILURE	General network error
INVALID_CONFIGURATION	Configuration error
CLIENT_INITIALIZATION	SDK initialization failed

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Response Handling

Each response type uses a specific status enum. Using the wrong enum returns an incorrect name because PaymentStatus and RefundStatus share overlapping integer values:

Response type	Correct status enum
PaymentServiceAuthorizeResponse	payment_pb2.PaymentStatus
PaymentServiceCaptureResponse	payment_pb2.PaymentStatus
PaymentServiceVoidResponse	payment_pb2.PaymentStatus
RefundResponse	payment_pb2.RefundStatus

Payment Status

Response status fields are protobuf enum integers, not strings:

from payments.generated import payment_pb2

response = client.authorize(authorize_request)

# Compare against named integer constants
if response.status == payment_pb2.CHARGED:
    print("Payment succeeded")

# Decode to a human-readable string for display
status_name = payment_pb2.PaymentStatus.Name(response.status)
print(f"Status: {status_name}")

Comparing response.status == "CHARGED" will always be False. Use the integer constants from payment_pb2.

Refund Status

Always use RefundStatus when decoding a refund response:

from payments.generated import payment_pb2

refund_response = client.refund(refund_request)

# Correct: use RefundStatus for refund responses
status_name = payment_pb2.RefundStatus.Name(refund_response.status)
print(f"Refund status: {status_name}")

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Architecture

Your App → Service Client → ConnectorClient → UniFFI FFI → Rust Core → Connector API
                ↓
         Connection Pool (httpx)

The SDK uses:

• UniFFI — FFI bindings to Rust
• protobuf — Protocol buffer serialization
• httpx — High-performance HTTP client with connection pooling

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Building from Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/juspay/hyperswitch-prism.git
cd hyperswitch-prism/sdk/python

# Build native library, generate bindings, and pack
make pack

# Run tests
make test-pack

# With live API credentials
STRIPE_API_KEY=sk_test_xxx make test-pack

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How it works

1. make build-lib — builds crates/ffi/ffi with --features uniffi
2. make generate-bindings — runs uniffi-bindgen to produce generated/connector_service_ffi.py
3. make generate-proto — runs grpc_tools.protoc to produce generated/payment_pb2.py
4. make pack-archive — runs pip wheel to produce the installable .whl