Metafield gid keeps changing!

[mattayres]

Hi guys I am using :

{
product(id: "gid://shopify/Product/6806329950293") {
availablePublicationCount


metafields(first: 5) {
edges {
node {
id
key
value
description
}
}
}

}
}

And the gid for the metafield keeps changing!:

"metafields": {
"edges": [
{
"node": {
"id": "gid://shopify/Metafield/20662215409749",

This is obviously making it impossible for me to perform Product Update mutations!

I am not sure what is causing this gid for the metafields to change randomly... its done it about 3 times now throughout the day.

Surely once that metafield is created the gid is set in stone!?

[jazz-jay]

Hi,

To update a product metafield, here is normally what should be done:

1. Get the products metafields filter it by namespace and/or key
2. Once you get the correct metafield (filtered by key and namespace), then use the gid of that metafield to do the update

[mattayres]

Lol wow.

OK.. Is there some good reason for having constantly random changing gid's for metafields.?  This has just made the process of updating a few thousand products with hundreds of metafields 10 times harder 😞

[jazz-jay]

Oh well,

I don't know, shopify has designed it that way.