Bug in the order API: "requires_shipping" is set to true for a product that's set to false

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1

When a product variant is set to “requires_shipping”: false, one would assume that the order line_item associtated with that variant would honor the setting and set its “requires_shipping” attribute to false, but that is definitely not the case.

Here is an example

Product JSON snippet
{
  "product": {
   "variants": [
      {
        "id": 12345,
        "product_id": 6789,
        "title": "Default Title",
        "requires_shipping": false
      }
    ]
  }
}

Order Snippet including the ^ product as a line_item:

{
  "order": {
    "line_items": [
      {
        "id": 11111,
        "variant_id": 12345,
        "title": "Replacement Plan",
        "quantity": 1,
        "product_id": 6789,
        "requires_shipping": true,
        "name": "Replacement Plan"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Would appreciate it if this could be fixed as soon as possible.

Thanks.

2

Hey there,

I’m not able to replicate this behaviour when I create an order via the API.

Could you link me to an example product/order where you’re able to consistently replicate this?

3

I just noticed this problem as well. It seems like it started happening sometime in the last few months because I’m sure it used to work correctly.

4

The api docs say that “requires_shipping” is deprecated, but I can’t find when this happened, or what the alternative is.

5

I may have spoke too soon. It doesn’t look like this is happening to me after all. My point about the field being deprecated still stands, however.