error[E0432]: unresolved import async_stripe

[softwarecomplexity]

I feel really dumb here but I literally cannot seem to get async working at all.

error[E0432]: unresolved import `async_stripe`
 --> src\main.rs:1:5
  |
1 | use async_stripe::Client;
  |     ^^^^^^^^^^^^ use of undeclared crate or module `async_stripe`

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0432`.
error: could not compile `async_stripe_test` (bin "async_stripe_test") due to 1 previous error
PS D:\Code Projects\Hex\Hex\apps\backend\async_stripe_test> 

On my main project I removed it entirely and created another project just for simplicity.

main.rs:

use async_stripe::Client;

fn main() {
    println!("async_stripe imported successfully!");
}

Cargo.toml:

[package]
name = "async_stripe_test"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2024"

[dependencies]
async-stripe = { version = "0.40.2", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio-hyper"] }

What I have done so far:

• Added the dependency using cargo add async-stripe which resulted in async‑stripe v0.40.2 being added with a long list of features.
• Ran cargo clean to remove old build artifacts.
• Ran cargo update to update the lock file.
• Attempted to build with cargo build --verbose but still got unresolved import errors.
• Confirmed there are no workspace configuration issues causing the dependency not to be visible.
• Cargo.lock has “async-stripe” and is presented (though the error suggests the crate isn’t linking at all).
• Reinstalled rust

Additionally in my main project:

error[E0432]: unresolved import `async_stripe`
 --> src\routes\stripe_routes.rs:5:5
  |
5 | use async_stripe::{
  |     ^^^^^^^^^^^^ use of unresolved module or unlinked crate `async_stripe`
  |
  = help: if you wanted to use a crate named `async_stripe`, use `cargo add async_stripe` to add it to your `Cargo.toml`

error[E0432]: unresolved import `async_stripe`
  --> src\routes\stripe_routes.rs:18:5
   |
18 | use async_stripe::webhook;
   |     ^^^^^^^^^^^^ use of unresolved module or unlinked crate `async_stripe`
   |
   = help: if you wanted to use a crate named `async_stripe`, use `cargo add async_stripe` to add it to your `Cargo.toml`

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0432`.
error: could not compile `backend` (bin "backend") due to 2 previous errors

Ive also tried using a different runtime like surf:

async-stripe = { version = "0.40.2", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-async-std-surf"] }

Still the same error.

[augustoccesar]

Hello! The repository is async-stripe, but the lib is exported as stripe.
You can see here:

async-stripe/Cargo.toml

Lines 30 to 31 in 5ed7e1e

	[lib]
	name = "stripe"

What you want to import is use stripe::Client;, you can check for some example on https://github.com/arlyon/async-stripe/tree/master/examples
Like this one:

async-stripe/examples/customer.rs

Lines 10 to 15 in 5ed7e1e

	use stripe::{Client, CreateCustomer, Customer, ListCustomers};
	#[tokio::main]
	async fn main() {
	let secret_key = std::env::var("STRIPE_SECRET_KEY").expect("Missing STRIPE_SECRET_KEY in env");
	let client = Client::new(secret_key);

[mzeitlin11]

@augustoccesar you beat me to it! I'll also recommend the docs at https://docs.rs/async-stripe/latest/stripe/ for more example usage. It would be cool if the compiler error warned about the library rename and suggested a fix.

[softwarecomplexity]

You guys are legends, thank you very much for your help.

Maybe I will raise the bug as well to suggest that potential fix @mzeitlin11

[arlyon]

This is a holdover from the old lib we forked. Needed a new name for crates but didn't want to change existing code. @mzeitlin11 you're right a compiler warning would be cool here! But there's not much we can do on our end.