Question concerning Updating products about shopifysharp HOT 2 CLOSED

As long as you have the productId, only one call (PUT) is required. The Shopifiy API does support partial updates. Although I haven't tried it using ShopifySharp, but should just be a case of setting the properties you need. If your updating variants, you'd also need to pass the VariantId.

Cheers,
Shaun.

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@Infob has it right, you should be able to store just the product id in your database and update that product with a single call. That's what I do in my own Shopify apps to reduce bandwidth and database storage, and it works well.

However, there is one gotcha that you should look out for: because of the way int, bool, string etc. works in C#, if you don't specify those values when updating your product they'll be sent as the default value (0 for ints, false for bools, "" for strings). If you don't set those values and send them as the default, Shopify may take them and overwrite whatever previous value you had.

The easiest way to prevent that is to grab the product from Shopify, make your changes to it and send the whole thing back with an update call (which ends up consuming 2 API calls like you said).

Unfortunately, beyond manually preserving those values when you update your product, I don't have a quick fix for that; it's going to require setting all bools and ints to nullable in another major release.

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