How to work with Metaobject (List) in Liquid?

Online Store and Theme Development
1

I’m experiencing some problems working with metafield of type Metaobject (List).

The functionality isn’t well documented and usual way of working with arrays doesn’t work either.

For example, trying to access a particular metaobject from metaobject list by using square brackets and an index won’t work (metaobject_list[0]).

But iterating through it using for in loop works fine.

Is there a way to access the first metaobject in the list through index? Can somebody direct me to the relavant information in the docs, because I couldn’t find anything myself?

2

:wave: you can use first and last to get the first and last element of an array (docs)

3

I’m aware of that. As I said the problem with it, is that it doesn’t behave as a normal array.

{{ product.metafields.shopify.jewelry-material.value.first.label | json }}

This code is gonna return null.

While this

{% for material in product.metafields.shopify.jewelry-material.value %}
  {{ material.label | json }}
{% endfor %}

returns the desired value.

4

apologies i missed that – no you cannot access array elements through index.

5

Store it in a JavaScript variable it keeps the same order and you can pick an item from it