Shopify Metafield late update after successful response by rest api

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I’m updating product metafields in bulk using Shopify rest API, for different products and every product has the same namespace for the metafield.

foreach($products as $product){
   $metafield = [
      'namespace' => 'app_specific_metafield',
      'key' => 'variable_name'
      'value' => 'value'
   ]; 
}

and I update/create the metafield according to Shopify rest metafield API docs. everything is fine, I get 200 for each product’s metafield update.

But when refreshing the product’s metafield, it didn’t show the changes immediately, ( after X number of times it appears ). Idk if there is any time limit to get the updated metafields reflected.

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I see a similar delay from the time a metafield value is updated to when an active customer session sees the update on a liquid page section that references that metafield. This is independent of the volume of updates. Just making one update, I see a delay.

This produces a poor user experience for the customer who is expecting to see a result of an action, yet the initial section render does not reflect the metafield change.

What is the delay we should place in our code before we call for a section render after a metafield update?

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Sometimes updating metafields is taking up to 30 seconds, even if you update just one metafield.

The workaround I found was to update any theme in the store even if its unpublished through REST API and then metafields will be updated instantly.

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Hi @amadi84 ,

Thanks for the suggestion. Can you give more details on what you mean by “update any theme in the store” when I am updating a metafield related to a product or customer?

Thanks,

John

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What I did is creating a dummy file in the snippet folder of the store theme, and then keep updating it whenever metafields were updated, the result was metafields updated immediately. I used shop metafields in this test, but I think product metafields have same behavior

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What I do is POST call REST API with timestamp on the url, ex: {shop}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2023-07/metafields.json?nocache={timestamp}. So the changes of metafields can be displayed immediately on liquid.