App reviews, troubleshooting, and recommendations
Curently, webhook payload documentation is solely a single response sample. This is not enough
to keep a well maintained app. Other places where I searched (online posts, official library repositories,
this forum, and other docs), either don't have information or have questions unsolved:
https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-api-js/issues/359
Relying on a single sample to infer types is time-consuming, error-prone, inconvenient, hard (as other
alternative values can't be seen). In addition to this, sample mentions resources, but the responses
include extra fields. Take the product webhook for instance.
Finally, a last problem that I found is that the AI assistant at https://shopify.dev/docs/ provide incorrect
answers regarding these types.
I would like to know if there are plans for publishing (as they must have been implemented prior to releasing
the webhooks to the public, necessarily) them.
Thanks
Even more, the `app_subscription/update` webhook does not always retrieve all the data shown in the documentation.
It is very important to have such cases documented.
Also, the sample responses show null values that do not allow to get the value type.
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