updateCustomer mutation

Use the updateCustomer mutation to update the customer’s personal information.

To return or modify information about a customer, we recommend you use customer tokens in the header of your GraphQL calls. However, you also can use session authentication.

Syntax

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mutation {
  updateCustomer(
    input: CustomerInput!
  ) {
    CustomerOutput
  }
}

Example usage

The following call updates the first name and email address for a specific customer.

Request:

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mutation {
  updateCustomer(
    input: {
      firstname: "Rob"
      email: "robloblaw@example.com"
    }
  ) {
    customer {
      firstname
      email
    }
  }
}

Response:

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{
  "data": {
    "updateCustomer": {
      "customer": {
        "firstname": "Rob",
        "email": "robloblaw@example.com"
      }
    }
  }
}

Input attributes

The following table lists the attributes you can use as input for the updateCustomer mutation. The Customer attributes table lists the attributes Magento returns.

Output attributes

The updateCustomer mutation returns the CustomerOutput object.

Address attributes (CustomerAddress)

The values assigned to attributes such as firstname and lastname in this object may be different from those defined in the Customer object.

The CustomerAddress output returns the following attributes:

CustomerAddressAttribute attributes

The CustomerAddressAttribute output data type has been deprecated because the contents are not applicable for GraphQL. It can contain the following attributes:

CustomerAddressRegion attributes

The customerAddressRegion output returns the following attributes:

Errors

Related topics

• customer query
• createCustomer mutation
• createCustomerAddress mutation
• updateCustomerAddress mutation
• deleteCustomerAddress mutation