Ability to query app owned metafields

[patryk-smc]

Ability to query app owned metafields

[FourSeventy]

It's ridiculous that this wasn't a day 1 feature...

[gil--]

@TheSecurityDev on the roadmap still. Now showing at Q1 2024 - https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/checkout#product-roadmap.

[patryk-smc]

Looks like "New API for app-reserved namespace metafields (read/write)" is on the roadmap for: August 2023

[TheSecurityDev]

Was this ever implemented?

[TheSecurityDev]

So I'm assuming the latest update where excluding the metafield namespace uses the app-owned namespace by default doesn't apply to extensions. It's really a shame this is taking so long considering it's a pretty important feature for apps that want to disable the extensions if the merchant isn't on a paid plan.

[gil--]

@TheSecurityDev you over-estimate the competency and free-time of merchants. Just write to a shop metafield and load that via the extension to check if they have a paid plan. Worse case, update it via cron say hourly or daily to ensure it's not manually edited.

[TheSecurityDev]

@TheSecurityDev you over-estimate the competency and free-time of merchants. Just write to a shop metafield and load that via the extension to check if they have a paid plan. Worse case, update it via cron say hourly or daily to ensure it's not manually edited.

That's exactly what I'm doing but it feels like a hack.