Can't create fulfillment service due to location name

Retired Boards Appdev Fulfillment Api
1

I’m having trouble understanding how to create fulfillment service with already existing location.

So there is this store which has location:

{
    "locations": [
        {
            "id": _loc_id_here_,
            "name": "Example",
            "address1": "England",
            "address2": "",
            "city": "UK",
            "zip": "W",
            "province": "",
            "country": "GB",
            "phone": "",
            "created_at": "2019-03-03T14:10:57+00:00",
            "updated_at": "2019-03-14T20:36:44+00:00",
            "country_code": "GB",
            "country_name": "United Kingdom",
            "province_code": null,
            "legacy": false,
            "active": true
        }
    ]
}

I’m trying to create fulfillment service for this store by posting this:

{
  "fulfillment_service": {
    "inventory_management": false,
    "requires_shipping_method": true,
    "name": "Example",
    "tracking_support": false,
    "format": "json",
    "location_id":_loc_id_here_
  }
}

And I get this response 422 Unprocessable Entity:

{
    "errors": {
        "base": [
            "You already have a location with this name"
        ]
    }
}

I don’t understand why I am getting this error. I’m trying to create a fulfillment service for existing location. Shouldn’t this error appear if I tried to create a new location with the same name?

2

Just experimented with this on admin panel.

I have 2 locations with names:
aaa
bbb

I can rename bbb → aaa and have 2 locations with the same name = aaa

However I can’t create a new location with name aaa because the name is taken.

3

Bumping this because it affects my integration a lot.

4

@Davis1 any chance you solved it?

5

I’m sorry but no. In our case the issue is very rare and it hasn’t been fixed.

6

I’ve found the same thing, when testing out a fulfillment service on a test store when you add/remove the service multiple times, it leaves an orphan location, such that when you try to re-add the fulfillment service, this error is thrown.

You need to delete the orphan location associated with your service’s handle, before adding the fulfillment service.

So, if your service handle is “lightning”, e.g.:

for l in shopify.Location.find():
 if l.name == 'lightning':
  l.destroy()

f = shopify.FulfillmentService()
f.callback_url = 'xxxxx'
f.handle = 'lightning'
f.format = 'json'
f.save()

Hope this helps! :slightly_smiling_face: