POS UI Extensions - access to metafields and metaobjects

[adamwooding]

Please list the related package(s)

ui-extensions, ui-extensions-react

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

POS UI Extensions currently have issues with persistent storage and caching of data. Currently, we are required to query our server each time the extension is opened, causing slow loading times and a poor user experience for the merchant.

If we were able access values and data as metafields, aswell as in metaobjects, this would greatly improve loading times, also assist in cases where the POS device is offline, and create a faster, better user experience for the merchant.

Already some metafield values are being synced to Shopify POS, such as some product metafields. But these are not accessible via POS UI Extensions.

A bonus would be also being able to access app-data metafields in POS UI Extensions. This would greatly assist with persistent storage issues we currently face.

Access to metafields and metaobjects is desperately needed in POS UI Extensions, for all Shopify objects but most notably products, collections and customers.

Describe the changes you are looking for

• Access to metafield values for all Shopify objects, but most importantly products, collections and customers (especially including JSON metafields).
• Access to metaobjects
• Access to app data metafields

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

Currently, to use metafields and metaobjects we need to fetch to our app, then make a call to read the metafield, then pass it to our POS Extension.

[arnaudbagnis]

+1 with same process that checkout ui

# the below configs come from "shopify.extension.toml"

# this not work
[[extensions.metafields]]
namespace = "$app:product-discount"
key = "config"

# this work, you can remove 'xxxx' and 'yyyy' to your variables
[[extensions.metafields]]
namespace = "xxxx"
key = "yyyy"

https://shopify.dev/docs/api/checkout-ui-extensions/2023-07/react-hooks/metafields/usemetafields

[verdant-spark]

+1 from here too; it would be amazing to be able to allow the merchant to store some simple settings for the extension as per the checkout ui:

[extensions.settings]

[[extensions.settings.fields]]
key = "banner_title"
type = "single_line_text_field"
name = "Banner title"
description = "Enter a title for the banner."

The app I'm developing requires some minor input from the merchant otherwise the app is very fixed in functionality, and I'll need to release about 10 different apps - one per 'setting', which could be trivially solved if the extension could just store the setting instead.

[santhoshnsscoe]

@adamwooding can you share on how are you getting the metafields data from you app. we need also to get the metafields data for products in cart page.