API POST create products.json returns no error but doesn't create product

cfeilmeier · ‎02-17-2023

the simple jsonString =

{
"product": {
"title": "Some Suit",
"body_html": "You should wear this",
"vendor": "Top Vendor",
"product_type": "Womens Suit",
"status": "draft"
}
}

//The code is using System.Net.WebClient myWebClient

byte[] bytes = myWebClient.UploadData(STORE_URL_PREFIX + @"products.json", "POST", System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(jsonString));
Json_Returned = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes);

The headscratcher here is that the Json_Returned is a JSON list of all products that already exist, instead of the single product intended. The new product WASN"T created. I get no error code.

NOTE: The API works fine for getting the full list of products using the GET products.json so I know the api keys are configured correctly.

NOTE: The exact same command + json payload works perfectly on another site I have access to, but doesn't work for this site.

NOTE: The "write_products" permission is assigned

I feel there must be something different about this site that won't let the product be created through the API.

Any help would be appreciated.

cfeilmeier · ‎02-17-2023

I found the problem, although, it seems like a Shopify bug. We had changed the name of the website store name from example "the-store-name" to "the-store" a while back. Keeping this in mind, I changed the URL in my code from:

"https://the-store-name.myshopify.com/admin/api/2023-01/"

to

"https://the-store.myshopify.com/admin/api/2023-01/"

However, unsuspectedly, the URL stayed the same and I didn't notice for a while.

The GET products.json worked just fine, so I assumed all was good with the new URL, but later I ran into the issue in my first post. Once I noticed the URL hadn't actually change, I put the original correct URL in my http call and it worked.

Strange that the GET worked at all with the wrong prefix...

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cfeilmeier · ‎02-17-2023