Section themes REST API Changelog

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Last updated at: November 14, 2019

The Section themes REST API helps you test out Section Themes for the new online store design experience. 

During the preview phase, we will be making changes to the sections API based on your feedback. This may cause invalid theme code or page data to be present in preview shops. As the API is iterated upon, we will clean up existing data and theme code on beta-flagged preview shops, which may result in data loss. Changes will be communicated and documentation will be updated.

June 19, 2019

Improvements

• Fixed a bug where HTML generated/wrapped by the HtmlWrapper was unintentionally escaped

June 21, 2019
Improvements

• Fixed validation where insert_section override had content: false or content: []
• Fixed the response of product_pages overrides so they are serialized correctly

June 25, 2019

New Features

• /master_pages.json supports:
  • Sort by created_at and updated_at
    • created_at_min
    • created_at_max
    • updated_at_min
    • updated_at_max
  • limit
  • last_id
  • last_value
  • order
  • direction
  • fields
• Theme frame wrappers support multiple classes 

Improvements

• Fixed validation so content key is required for all content sections

June 26, 2019

Improvements

• Fixed a bug preventing section themes from being imported

June 28, 2019

Improvements 

• Fixed validation so each presentation setting has a type field
• Fixed a bug where errors were not being handled when master pages were being updated, resulting in 500 Internal server error
• Fixed a bug that prevented master pages from being updated
• Older setting types such as image, font, snippet, layout, and hidden are not supported in frame, page, and content sections

July 3, 2019

New Features

• Allows master pages to be created via the API

July 4, 2019

Improvements

• Fixed validation on frames.json so blocks defined in ThemeFrameSectionData match the block types defined in ThemeFrameSectionsSchema

July 5, 2019

Improvements

• Aligns section ID validation across blocks, content, overrides, and section data
• Disabled theme editor in the developer preview since it does not currently reflect the new online store design experience

July 8, 2019

Improvements

• Sections with false content will match section files with false content schemas
• Fixes a bug where frame and page sections were not able to define content-type settings in their schema
• Changes to the theme frame fallback order
• Use theme_frame_id if it exists
• Use the frame that has the same name as the page type (product, blog, etc) if it exists
• Use default otherwise

July 9, 2019 

Improvements

• Fixed a bug that allowed blocks to be created without IDs

July 12, 2019 

Improvements

• Content sections with false content match section files with false content schemas
• Each presentation setting is required to have a type field

July 16, 2019

Improvements

• All sections, regardless of their type, now require a schema tag

July 17, 2019

Improvements

• name field in schemas won't accept empty strings

July 22, 2019

Improvements

• Frame sections support max_blocks 

July 23, 2019

Improvements

• section_file field in schemas don't require .liquid. It's optional.

July 25, 2019

New Features

• A theme frame can now be assigned to the password page. The page will automatically look for password theme frame before falling back to default.

July 31, 2019

New Features

• Frame, page, and content sections support header and paragraph settings
  • They do not count towards the max number limit of settings
  • There is a limit of 6 header and paragraph settings that can be used per section/block/content.

Improvements

• sections in master_page require a section with id  page and a section_file that points to a page section file. 
• Each content type instance has an id
• Customer-area page section files are saved in subfolder 'customers'

August 2, 2019

Improvements

• Renamed content to body in the text content type

August 6, 2019

Improvements

• Default presentation settings for content sections can be rendered

August 7, 2019

Improvements

• Return an error instead of breaking when the master page sections data isn't a hash.

August 9, 2019

Improvements

• Content sections where content is defined as false will return as false.

August 12, 2019

Improvements

• Thelast_modified_with field is removed from all section data.

August 13, 2019

Improvements

• section.content will return a content drop if the section only accepts a single content.
• section.content will return an array if the section accepts multiple content even if there currently is only one or zero content stored

November 14, 2019
Improvements

• The Content Schema  has been modified to allow for more flexible content combinations. As part of the change, the content schema property and section.content Liquid API have been updated.
• New content types: html and custom.
• The sections and overrides properties of the REST API have been updated to reflect the new content structure.
• The REST API endpoint to create master pages has been removed. Master pages are now created automatically (one per type).