Mechanic objects

Mechanic's Liquid objects — event, task, options, globals, secrets, cache, action, and Shopify resource objects available in your task code.

Mechanic makes a variety of Liquid environment variables available, containing specific Liquid objects. (The shop variable, for example, is always available and always contains the Shop object.)

Shop-level configuration is available through globals and secrets:

Globals objectSecrets object

Mechanic's Liquid objects mapping to Shopify resources all contain data pulled from the Shopify's REST Admin API reference. These objects are listed here:

⚠️Shopify REST Admin API

Shopify variables in Mechanic do not necessarily contain the same attributes as Liquid variables used in Shopify (in places like themes or email templates) – even if they share the same name.

In Mechanic, Shopify variables always contain data from Shopify events, which are delivered to Mechanic via webhook. This means that Shopify variables always have the same data structure as Shopify webhooks, corresponding to Shopify's REST representation for this data.

For example, while Shopify themes support customer.name, Mechanic does not (because Shopify's REST representation of the customer resource does not contain a "name" property). On the other hand, Mechanic supports customer.created_at, while Shopify themes do not.