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Topic summary

A developer is encountering a 400 error when attempting to create customers via the Shopify REST API. The error message indicates ‘Required parameter missing or invalid’ for the customer object.

Issue Details:

  • The API consistently returns a 400 status code
  • Error: {'errors': {'customer': 'Required parameter missing or invalid'}}
  • Developer has attempted modifying and removing various parameters without success

Code Context:

  • The provided code snippet appears corrupted or reversed, making it difficult to identify the exact implementation
  • The method appears to involve creating a Shopify customer object and attempting to save it

Current Status:
The issue remains unresolved with no responses yet. The developer needs guidance on which specific customer fields are required by the API or help debugging their request payload.

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I have a problem when uploading customers from the REST API, when I create a customer, the API returns 400 with the message {‘errors’: {‘customer’: ‘Required parameter missing or invalid’}}.

But I have tried modifying all parameters and deleting the most possible.

The code I use to create the customer is the following:

def create_customer(self, data: dict):
    customer = shopify.Customer()
    for key, value in data.items():
        setattr(customer, key, value)
    try:
        customer.save()
        return customer.id
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