Admin UI Extensions missing data from useApi

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

An issue emerged following migration to Shopify’s new app development platform where admin UI extensions stopped receiving expected data from the useApi hook in @shopify/ui-extensions-react.

Problem Details:

  • The data object returned empty instead of containing the expected selected array
  • According to Shopify’s documentation, the data field should include selection information for action extensions
  • Issue was reproducible in the Bulk Discount Code Bot app when using the “Add codes to discount” action from discount details pages
  • A console log screenshot demonstrated the empty data field

Resolution:
The issue appears to have been resolved shortly after being reported.

Summarized with AI on October 24. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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This seems to have started since the migration to the new app dev platform (our apps were converted today). Our admin UI extensions are currently receiving an empty data object when they should have a selected item in them. Here’s a console log out of the useApi fields from the @shopify/ui-extensions-react package:

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Note the data field is empty, but it should have selected array in it according to the docs:

This can be reproduced with our Bulk Discount Code Bot app by using the “Add codes to discount” admin UI action from the top of a discount details page.

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This looks to be fixed now.