Changing API version of Clients

[jerameel]

Issue summary

Write a short description of the issue here ↓ Changing API version of Clients (Admin GraphQL, Storefront) without relying on context.

Expected behavior

What do you think should happen? Should be able to override/change api version used on clients using additional parameter

Actual behavior

What actually happens? Cannot change api version without initializing shopify context

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Steps to reproduce the problem

1. Use api client without context, apiversion defaults to unstable

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[Grsmto]

I don't think the default API version on this SDK should be set to unstable. Or at least it should be stated somewhere. That seems really dangerous if you didn't explicitly defined it with a Context.

[shopsideau]

Yes would really love to see this functionality to set a specific version on the client (or as a param when initialising it).

[JayAdra]

Is it possible to get this looked at/added soon? Crucial feature for us, would love to see it implemented.

[jessicazu]

I really need this too. If I simply want to call an API, I don't think Context is necessary. Or, it would be nice to be able to specify only API_VERSION in Context.initialize.

[shopsideau]

A workaround I found that seems to be working so far is just manually specifying the version after the import, i.e.

Shopify.Context.API_VERSION = '2022-04';

This is without using Context.initialize anywhere too. An official solution would be preferred, but hopefully this helps for now.

[jessicazu]

@shopsideau Great! It is a simple solution and works. Thank you very much.

[benjamindoe]

I don't think the default API version on this SDK should be set to unstable. Or at least it should be stated somewhere. That seems really dangerous if you didn't explicitly defined it with a Context.

I only just discovered that the clients are using unstable by default this morning! Broke our app due to the introduction of Protected customer data on 2022-10. https://shopify.dev/apps/store/data-protection/protected-customer-data

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