I absolutely understand that, but what I was alluding to was that it would be nice if we didn't need the metafield id in order to perform an update.  Because the metafield id is required, I either need to store the ids (I am updating multiple metafie...

I was hoping I could both insert and update metafields for a given product with a PUT to /admin/products/XXXXXX.json.  That was not the case, and I have adjusted my code to perform updates via a PUT to /admin/products/XXXXXX/metafields/YYYYYY.json.  ...

I believe I may have figured it out.  I was under the impression that metafields could be updated in this way, however it appears you can only create new metafields using this method.  Updating metafields appears to require the use of the metafields ...

Per the documentation here (http://docs.shopify.com/api/product), the following example should update an existing product's metafields:PUT /admin/products/#{id}.json{ "product": { "id": 632910392, "metafields": [ { "key": "new", "value": "newvalue", ...