TracksInventory field in GraphQL vs RestAPI

[samwise]

Hi folks, I am curious if tracksInventory in GraphQL is carrying the same meaning as inventory_management in RestAPI.

[hassain]

Hi @samwise ,

These two fields are very similar but are not exactly the same.

For the “inventory_management” field for Product Variants in the REST API, it is used to report the fulfillment service that is tracking the inventory of this product variant. So this field will return “Shopify” if inventory is managed by Shopify, the handle of the fulfillment service if the product variant is being handled by a third party fulfillment service, or “null” if the inventory is not being tracked at all

For the “trackInventory” field for the Product in the GraphQL API, it is a boolean that returns true if the inventory tracking has been enabled for this product and false if the inventory tracking has not being enabled

[samwise]

@hassain thanks so much! Is there a plan to have a similar “trackInventory” in RestAPI?

[hassain]

Hi @samwise ,

As far as I am aware there are no plans to add this field to the REST Admin API, but you can always keep an eye out on our API Changelog to see if this or another similar feature get added in: https://developers.shopify.com/changelog

[btrain-004]

Looks like things changed again. trackInventory is no longer part of the the ProductVariant.

However, I believe you can use inventoryItem instead

inventoryItem {
   inventoryHistoryUrl
}