Shopify products/delete webhook only returns ID

Question

My ruby on rails app is supposed to do some things whenever a product is deleted. According to Shopify's website here the response to products/delete is supposed to be a JSON object with information such as the product_id associated with the product that was deleted:

{
  "id": 788032119674292922,
  "title": "Example T-Shirt",
  "body_html": null,
  "vendor": "Acme",
  "product_type": "Shirts",
  "created_at": null,
  "handle": "example-t-shirt",
  "updated_at": "2021-07-01T14:08:43-04:00",
  "published_at": "2021-07-01T14:08:43-04:00",
  "template_suffix": null,
  "published_scope": "web",
  "tags": "example, mens, t-shirt",
  "admin_graphql_api_id": "gid:\/\/shopify\/Product\/788032119674292922",
  "variants": [
    {
      "id": 642667041472713922,
      "product_id": 788032119674292922,
      "title": "",
      "price": "19.99",
      "sku": "example-shirt-s",
      "position": 0,
      "inventory_policy": "deny",
      "compare_at_price": "24.99",
      "fulfillment_service": "manual",
      "inventory_management": "shopify",
      "option1": "Small",
      "option2": null,
      "option3": null,
      "created_at": null,
      "updated_at": null,
      "taxable": true,
      "barcode": null,
      "grams": 200,
      "image_id": null,
      "weight": 200.0,
      "weight_unit": "g",
      "inventory_item_id": null,
      "inventory_quantity": 75,
      "old_inventory_quantity": 75,
      "requires_shipping": true,
      "admin_graphql_api_id": "gid:\/\/shopify\/ProductVariant\/642667041472713922"
    },
    {
      "id": 757650484644203962,
      "product_id": 788032119674292922,
      "title": "",
      "price": "19.99",
      "sku": "example-shirt-m",
      "position": 0,
      "inventory_policy": "deny",
      "compare_at_price": "24.99",
      "fulfillment_service": "manual",
      "inventory_management": "shopify",
      "option1": "Medium",
      "option2": null,
      "option3": null,
      "created_at": null,
      "updated_at": null,
      "taxable": true,
      "barcode": null,
      "grams": 200,
      "image_id": null,
      "weight": 200.0,
      "weight_unit": "g",
      "inventory_item_id": null,
      "inventory_quantity": 50,
      "old_inventory_quantity": 50,
      "requires_shipping": true,
      "admin_graphql_api_id": "gid:\/\/shopify\/ProductVariant\/757650484644203962"
    }
  ],
  "options": [
    {
      "id": 527050010214937811,
      "product_id": 788032119674292922,
      "name": "Title",
      "position": 1,
      "values": [
        "Small",
        "Medium"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "images": [
    {
      "id": 539438707724640965,
      "product_id": 788032119674292922,
      "position": 0,
      "created_at": null,
      "updated_at": null,
      "alt": null,
      "width": 323,
      "height": 434,
      "src": "\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/shopifycloud\/shopify\/assets\/shopify_shirt-39bb555874ecaeed0a1170417d58bbcf792f7ceb56acfe758384f788710ba635.png",
      "variant_ids": [
      ],
      "admin_graphql_api_id": "gid:\/\/shopify\/ProductImage\/539438707724640965"
    }
  ],
  "image": null
}

However, whenever I go to test it by actually deleting a product in the Shopify Admin interface, I'm only getting the id in my response. Anybody know why this is happening? My setup for the other webhooks is the exact same and I'm not having any other issues.

Answer 1

Seems like this is an open issue on the shopify_api gem for version 2021-01. I don't think you are doing anything wrong. It looks like nobody has responded in a while to the issue, you might want to try to upgrade to another version to see if they fixed it in any of the newer versions.

EDIT: According to a post from 3/2017 the expected behaviour from deleted endpoints is to only return the ID of the resource that was deleted. This could be why the issue on Github is being ignored.