Product Variant Metafields are not being updated on a PUT

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@rpw - I agree this is a huge PITA. I ended up just using this approach:

1) For each product, select all variants

2) For each variant, select all metafields

3) Update each variant one at a time

The API around metafields is sorely lacking. You would have to send a delete call for each metafield anyway so you might as well just do an update instead of a delete then update.

One other approach I would probably use if I need to revisit variant metafields - don’t use them :slight_smile: I am thinking you can store variant metafield data as product metafields instead using a convention for naming the keys such as:

KEYNAME_SKU = value

Then you can just build that string in Liquid template and use top-level product metafields for all variants. Top-level product metafields do support bulk updating in my tests.