Shopify is officially deprecating several fields related to legacy shipping modes, signaling a move towards a more streamlined and modern approach to delivery profiles. This change, effective immediately, impacts how developers interact with shipping settings through the Admin API, ensuring a cleaner and more efficient system for merchants.
Key Takeaways
- Support for legacy mode profiles in shipping has been discontinued.
- Several fields within the Admin API are being marked as deprecated or are effectively deprecated due to being non-functional.
- Queries using these fields will now return static, ignorable data, and mutations will be no-ops.
End of an Era for Legacy Shipping Modes
Shopify has announced the discontinuation of support for legacy mode profiles within its shipping features. While this functionality has been disabled for some time, the Admin API is now being updated to reflect this change officially. This move aims to simplify the shipping configuration process for merchants and ensure consistency across the platform.
Deprecated Fields in the Admin API
The following fields are being formally deprecated:
DeliveryProfile.legacyMode
Additionally, the following fields are now effectively deprecated as they are no longer functional:
DeliverySetting.legacyModeBlockedDeliverySetting.legacyModeProfilesDeliverySettingInput.legacyModeProfiles
It's important to note that these last three fields cannot be formally marked as deprecated in the schema. This is a technical constraint to prevent objects from having zero public fields, which can cause issues with schema generation. However, their functionality is entirely removed.
Impact on Developers and Merchants
For developers integrating with Shopify's Admin API, this means that any queries utilizing the deprecated fields will now return static data that should be disregarded. Similarly, any mutations attempting to pass values through these fields will be treated as no-operation (no-op) actions, meaning they will have no effect on the system. Merchants using Shopify's shipping features should ensure their configurations are updated to reflect these changes and are utilizing the current, supported delivery profile settings.
