RFC: How do you use color swatches on product bundles?

[Gideon]

This would be very easy, requiring no custom code, if custom swatch options were correctly mapped with the `swatch` object.

Lets say I make a “Material” category metafields for my shoe products, and create shopify--color-pattern swatches for “Suede” and “Leather”. Everything maps correctly in the product admin and looks perfect:

It seems like this would be the “correct” way to make custom swatch options. Unfortunately, the “Material” option will not have a swatch object attached to it:

My best option is to do a manual lookup on metafields.shopify['color-pattern'].values['suede'] – which has two problems:

1. I need to do a string match against the option_group name, “Material”, in order to trigger this manual lookup workflow. That means I need settings and translations for every possible option_group.name containing swatches.
2. I am limited to 20 colors per product, because global metaobject lookups are slow and appropriately paginated.

I have been getting support tickets about this for a while and I can’t tell if I should apply the manual lookup hack-fix or wait for the proper solution.

Intuitively, I expect an option that shows as a swatch in the Shopify admin to have the swatch object attached in Liquid. The bug affects every theme, including Horizon.

Here’s the main bug-report thread for the issue:

Variants created by metaobject entries that aren't default Shopify metaobjects always have an empty swatch object

Short description of issue Variants created by metaobject entries that aren’t default Shopify metaobjects always have an empty swatch object Reproduction steps Create a product Create a metaobject (stitching in this example) > populate two entries. Each metaobject entry has a ‘Name’, ‘Image’ and ‘Color Picker’ field. Create the respective product metafield and connect to the new meaobject type. Create a variant option in the product based on the new metaobject Also connect Shopify’s default ‘C…