PWA Studio: Venia GraphQL queries to Adobe Commerce produce validation errors

This article provides recommendations on how to solve the issue where Venia storefront GraphQL queries to Adobe Commerce instance produce validation errors.

Affected products and versions

• Adobe Commerce on-premises 2.2.x, 2.3.x
• Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure 2.2.x, 2.3.x
• PWA Studio project for Adobe Commerce

Issue

Venia GraphQL queries to Adobe Commerce on-premises or Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure produce validation errors.

Cause

One of the reasons causing the problem, might be Venia and its GraphQL queries being out of sync with the schema of the connected Adobe Commerce instance.

Solution

To test whether your queries are up to date, run the following command in the project root:

yarn run validate-queries

This will show a compatibility report. If you have incompatibilities, you need to upgrade your PWA Studio or Adobe Commerce instance. Check the Adobe Commerce compatibility matrix to see what exactly versions you need.

Reference the following documentation for instructions on how to upgrade:

• For PWA Studio upgrades, search for the "Upgrading from a previous version" section of the PWA release notes for the version that you need to upgrade to.
• Upgrade Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure version in our developer documentation
• Upgrade Adobe Commerce on-premises (installed using "composer create-project" or archive) in our developer documentation
• Upgrade Adobe Commerce on-premises (installed by cloning Adobe Commerce repo) in our developer documentation

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• PWA for Adobe Commerce Documentation