Returned error in result missing error subject (discovered in metafield create/update)

The shopify API returns the subject of an error as a key in the json error string, and pyactiveresource sometimes adds the value but not the key when it unpacks the string.

This probably shows up for some errors generated when adding or modifying variants or metafields, as they show up as lists of hashes in the object attributes. I hit a problem when adding or updating a metafield on a variant, and decided to dig.

The issue is in class Errors in activeresource.py:

    def from_hash(self, messages):
        attribute_keys = self.base.attributes.keys()
        for key, errors in six.iteritems(messages):
            for message in errors:
                if key in attribute_keys:
                    self.add(key, message)
                else:
                    self.add_to_base(message)

An error return like this:

{
    "errors": {
        "metafields.namespace": ["can't be blank", "is too short (minimum is 3 characters)"]
    }
}

(caused by trying to create or update a metafield with the key "name-space" instead of "namespace" :) will lose the important tidbit, the field causing the issue: "metafields" is a key in the variant attributes, but "metafields.namespace" is not.

Perhaps this might be a more robust approach?

    def from_hash(self, messages):
        attribute_keys = self.base.attributes.keys()
        for key, errors in six.iteritems(messages):
            for message in errors:
                if key.split('.')[0] in attribute_keys:
                    self.add(key, message)
                else:
                    self.add_to_base(' '.join([key, message]))

Thanks!

Rick

Start in activeresource.py at class Errors and its from_hash method, then inspect how nested error keys are unpacked. Reproduce the metafield-on-variant case using the shown metafields.namespace response. Done means the returned error preserves the subject key instead of losing the field causing the error.