Check if App embed Is Active

[Ido1425]

Hi everyone!

I am developing my Shopify app and I am struggling to find solution for checking if my app embed block is active in the user's theme editor, the Shopify documentation about it is very short and not informative.

I would really appreciate help with that!

[BSSCommerce-B2B]

Hi @Ido1425,

You could check in themes config/settings_data.json. Like the picture below, if an app embed is active, its information should be displayed

let activeAppEmbeds = true;
let contentFile = null;
let searchBlock = false;
// You should write your own getContentFile
let resContentFile = await getContentFile(domain, token,themeId,"config/settings_data.json");
if (resContentFile) {
    contentFile = JSON.parse(resContentFile);
}
if (contentFile && contentFile?.current?.blocks) {
    const appEmbeds = contentFile?.current?.blocks;
    for (const key in appEmbeds) {
        if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(appEmbeds, key)) {
            searchBlock = true;
            const app = appEmbeds[key];
            // extensionId is your theme app extension id after deployed
            if (app.type.includes(extensionId) && app.disabled) {
                activeAppEmbeds = false;
                break;
            }
        }
    }
    if(!searchBlock) {
        activeAppEmbeds = false;
    }
} else {
    activeAppEmbeds = false;
}

I hope this is helpful to you.

[Ido1425]

Thank you for that!

The only thing I don't understand is how do I get the content file I want from the current theme. 

I couldn't find explanation for that in the Shopify docs

(I am using Gadget.dev)

[BSSCommerce-B2B]

You need `read_themes` scopes and use Shopify Theme API to get the current/main theme ID (the current theme has its role value as main like the first picture below, you could get the theme list and do filter to get the current theme) and use the returned theme ID to make request to Shopify Asset API to get theme file content, with query param asset[key]=config/settings_data.json

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Hope this is helpful to you.