Hi Shopify team,
TL;DR
Since around 2 weeks we are experiencing a bug with metafields and especially translated metafields. The Storefront API is giving us outdated content, which we believe to be due to caching.
Our Use Case
We use metafields to store custom content of merchants using the Admin API. When we check the Admin API, or Metafields Guru, or Translate & Adapt, we see that the content is properly set.
Problem description
When we query the content using the Storefront API, we get outdated content around 50% of the time. After a few hours, the content becomes updated, but it's taking very long and sometimes is unpredictable.
We can also reproduce the issue by doing a simple cURL request to the Storefront API where we can see it responding different versions of the same metafield after several tries. This also happens for different translations of the same metafield, when querying using the @inContext directive.
Example query
query($key: String!, $namespace: String!) @inContext(country: DE) {
shop {
metafield(key: $key, namespace: $namespace) {
key
value
namespace
}
}
}
