Shopify webhooks not wanted
I am connecting my website to Shopify using the API and Webhooks. When I create a product on my website, I want it to be created on Shopify. That works. But Shopify sends me back a Webhook telling me that a product has been created: So it creates the same product back on my website… I also want product to be created the other way.
I can’t use Shopify product id to check if the product already exists on my website because I haven’t received it yet.
I feel like I might find a way to make it work, but I am not sure it will be the cleanest way. I am wondering what is the best solution for this scenario.
EDIT: (Adding current ideas)
- The first idea that I have (I think it is a very bad way of doing it, but @Nathan told me to give talk about my ideas :) ), is to unsubscribe from product_create webhook and re-subscribe when I have the ID.
- The second one, is the make a request based on the product sku. That may work, but it doesn't seems like the strongest solution.
Any chance there is a way to just ask Shopify not to send me back the webhook when I create the product?
EDIT 2: Other idea:
- Delay the execution of the webhook on my website with a sleep(5) so I have time to same the shopify ID before dealing with the webhook.
Answer
First:
You create the new product on your website:
Using the api also you create it on your shopify store
//sample
POST /admin/products.json
{
"product": {
"title": "Burton Custom Freestlye 151",
"body_html": "<strong>Good snowboard!<\/strong>",
"vendor": "Burton",
"product_type": "Snowboard",
"images": [
{
"src": "http:\/\/example.com\/rails_logo.gif"
}
]
}
}
shopify response at same time:
"product": {
"id": 1071559589,
"title": "Burton Custom Freestlye 151",
"body_html": "<strong>Good snowboard!<\/strong>",
"vendor": "Burton",
"product_type": "Snowboard",
"created_at": "2015-12-08T11:42:18-05:00",
"handle": "burton-custom-freestlye-151",
"updated_at": "2015-12-08T11:42:18-05:00",
"published_at": "2015-12-08T11:42:18-05:00",
"template_suffix": null,
"published_scope": "global",
"tags": "",
"variants": [
{
"id": 1070325044,
"product_id": 1071559589,
"title": "Default Title",
"price": "0.00",
"sku": "",
"position": 1,
"grams": 0,
"inventory_policy": "deny",
"compare_at_price": null,
"fulfillment_service": "manual",
"inventory_management": null,
"option1": "Default Title",
"option2": null,
"option3": null,
"created_at": "2015-12-08T11:42:18-05:00",
"updated_at": "2015-12-08T11:42:18-05:00",
"requires_shipping": true,
"taxable": true,
"barcode": null,
"inventory_quantity": 1,
"old_inventory_quantity": 1,
"image_id": null,
"weight": 0.0,
"weight_unit": "kg"
}
],
...
..
.
.
Second:
Then you have the product data created, and you can save the id on a column of your product table website, to validate with the webhook from shopify.
simple!
