Can't retrieve metafields for blog articles

[tomkastek]

Hey there,

I do not know if this is a bug or a feature request. That's why I am writing here.

I want to use the Shopify Storefront GraphQL API. I created some custom metafields for this. But while I build my query I found no option to get those blog article metafields with Storefront API.

First, the REST API request:
"https://myapp.myshopify.com/admin/blogs/BLOG_ID/articles/ARTICLE_ID/metafields.json"

But with GraphQL there is no field metafields on an articleQuery. I tried it like:

static func allArticles() -> Storefront.QueryRootQuery {
        return Storefront.buildQuery { (queryRootQuery) in
            queryRootQuery.articles(first: 250, { (articleConnectionQuery) in
                articleConnectionQuery.edges({ (articlesEdgeQuery) in
                    articlesEdgeQuery.node({ (articleQuery) in
                        articleQuery.id().NO_METAFIELDS?
                    })
                })
            })
        }
    }

On products instead I can read the metafields on the position where I wrote NO_METAFIELDS? above. So do I need to use REST for this and have my code half written in REST and half written in GraphQL?

[rebeccajfriedman]

As per our Storefront API documentation, only Product and ProductVariant Metafields are supported at this time.

[tomkastek]

@rebeccajfriedman So there is no way to get blog article metafields with a mobile App?

The two solutions I think of:

1. Use Admin API. Problem: Security.
   If I use Admin API I have to store login data in my application code. Is there any problem doing this if the only permission is read access on store content? Is there anything a user would not be able to read with Storefront API?

2. Set up my own backend just to store metafield information I am going to read from.

[rebeccajfriedman]

At this time, those are your two available options. We are tracking this issue in our backlog, and we can update here once it is supported.

[kemalbaynu3]

Hello @rebeccajfriedman, will the support be there anytime soon? Because I don't want to invest to another backend service just to retrieve a metafield, if this new backend is going to be obsolete in the next three months.