I need to filter products by the “available_for_sale” property. It works perfectly in Postman - results are consistent and exactly as I would expect. However, when I attempt to recreate the query in PHP, the results are incorrect. Specifically, they include a number of products which have the wron…

Hey @Richard_Peck , Can you share request IDs from both the Postman request and the PHP request, or provide some PHP code (in it’s simplest form) which isn’t filtering correctly?

Good morning, thank you for the reply. Firstly, I’ve done some more investigating and it seems that the core problem is the Storefront API seems to be caching its responses. I am not sure why this is causing the available/unavailable filtering to become problematic, but I’d imagine it to be a contr…

Just to briefly follow up, the cache seems to have refreshed and both issues I was seeing (incorrect filtering as mentioned here and missing products) has been resolved. Thus, my question is really about how to trigger a cache refresh on the Storefront API? As it is running through Cloudflare, I su…

Thanks for the details! If it’s working 100% of the time in Postman it indicates there’s not a problem with the Storefront API cache but instead the PHP method is caching somewhere along the way.

Those folks are reporting accept-language made a different. Can you compare your Postman request to the PHP requests (including headers)?

Hi, did you figure out a way to solve this? I have the exact same problem: postman is fine but php gives wrong results

I found that the problem was due to the storefront endpoint being cached. Postman use different VPS instances to send the requests, whereas I was using a single one. This explained why my requests were “stuck” and theirs weren’t. My solution was to switch to the admin API, which meant I had a limi…

Storefront API GraphQL Inconsistent Results Between Postman + PHP

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Richard_Peck July 7, 2023, 6:00am 6

If that’s the case, why did these people experience exactly the same problem?

https://community.shopify.com/post/1311531

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