updateCustomer mutation using GraphQL, getting "CustomerInput! was provided invalid value"

[epodietz]

I was able to do updateCustomer in the GraphQL playground, but when I try to do it in node.js (see below) I get the following error:

Error updating customer: RequestError: Variable $input of type CustomerInput! was provided invalid value

    at Request.<anonymous> (c:\nodejs\node_modules\got\dist\source\as-promise\index.js:113:42)

    at afterResponse (c:\nodejs\node_modules\shopify-api-node\index.js:296:15)

    at Request.<anonymous> (c:\nodejs\node_modules\got\dist\source\as-promise\index.js:87:42)

    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

       {name: 'RequestError', code: 'ERR_GOT_REQUEST_ERROR', timings: {…}, locations: Array(1), path: undefined, …}

const Shopify = require('shopify-api-node');

const shopify = new Shopify({

    shopName: 'myStoreAt.myshopify.com',

    accessToken:'xxx'

});

const updateCustomer = async () => {

    const query = `

        mutation customerUpdate($input: CustomerInput!) {

        customerUpdate(input: $input) {

            userErrors { field, message }

            customer { id, firstName, lastName }

          }

    } `

const variables= {

    "input": {

        "id": 'gid://shopify/Customer/1018520244',

        "firstName": 'Frank',

        "lastName": 'Jones'

        }

};

      try {

          const response = await shopify.graphql(query);

          console.log(JSON.stringify(response, null, 2));

      } catch (error) {

          console.log('Error updating customer:', error);

      }

    } 

  updateCustomer();

[erik_lindberg_s]

I would structure my GraphQl request as shown in the documentation and not assign "variables" as a constant but as a key within the query. Like this:

const data = await client.query({
  data: {
    "query": `mutation customerUpdate($input: CustomerInput!) {
      customerUpdate(input: $input) {
        userErrors {
          field
          message
        }
        customer {
          id
          firstName
          lastName
        }
      }
    }`,
    "variables": {
      "input": {
        "id": "gid://shopify/Customer/1018520244",
        "firstName": "Tobi",
        "lastName": "Lutke"
      }
    },
  },
});

You can see the documentation here. https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/2023-10/mutations/customerupdate

[SBD_]

Duplicate https://community.shopify.com/c/graphql-basics-and/syntax-for-customerupdate-mutation-using-node-js-... 🙂