Metafields python API

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Hello,

I’m using this git project: https://github.com/Shopify/shopify_python_api to use shopify api.

I’m trying to upload a product with metafields, but I can’t get it to work, everything else is working great.

this is what I’m doing:

product = shopify.Product()
product.metafields = [{
“key”: “long_description”,
“value”: “test”,
“value_type”: “string”,
“namespace”: “prd_long_description”
}]

of course, filling out all other needed info, doing product.save() , but no metafield…

Can someone help me with this please? if not possible to do on product upload, I don’t mind doing it with another call , but I couldn’t find a way to add metafield with that project to a specific product…

Thank you!

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Currently also looking for this functionality… Hence, stumbled over your posting. As the documentation of the Python API project has some room for improvement, I tend to read the source. Which is quiet descriptive:

In your IDE click on shopify.Product, opens the Products source file, which contains

class Product(ShopifyResource, mixins.Metafields, mixins.Events):

Click on mixins.Metafields opens Metafiedls object, which contains the method def add_metafield(self, metafield):

Hence, try somthing like:

product.add_metafield({
“key”: “long_description”,
“value”: “test”,
“value_type”: “string”,
“namespace”: “prd_long_description”
})

Hope this helps.

But take care: If there is an error, ther is no exception thrown. This might be normal Ruby ActiveRecord behavior, but did cost me some hours to recocnise there is a problem at all!

Better check the Metafield.errors or Product.errors object for success or error.

In my opinion, it’s never a very clever idea to port one language common behavior to an other language, where nobody expects it.

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Thanks Adnreas.

This is what ended up working for me:

product.add_metafield(shopify.Metafield({
‘key’: ‘long_description’,
‘value’: ‘test’,
‘value_type’: ‘string’,
‘namespace’: ‘prd_long_description’
}))

I’ll have to do it after the product has been saved.

When I try yours (before product is saved) I get this error:

shopify/mixins.py", line 26, in add_metafield
raise ValueError(“You can only add metafields to a resource that has been saved”)
ValueError: You can only add metafields to a resource that has been saved

and I also get an error when trying it after :

shopify/mixins.py", line 28, in add_metafield
metafield._prefix_options = dict(resource=self.class.plural, resource_id=self.id)
AttributeError: ‘dict’ object has no attribute ‘_prefix_options’

Unfortunately, with the way I found, I need to do an API call for each metafield I want to add (and I have 7), so that’s kind of sucks… I was hopeing to find a way to do it before the product save, like shoopify API documentation shows.

“documentation of the Python API project has some room for improvement” - that’s an understatment :slight_smile:

Thanks anyway.

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:smiley: You cought me! I postet my answer, before I tested it itself. And we both got bitten for my hurry…

I edited my last post, to reflect my findings. But your post turned me into the right direction :wink:

Thanks.

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