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Hi
I am trying to upgrade from 1.6 to 1.7 as 1.7 has a bug487 fixed( which is to carry over the item attributes during cart merge) and Tax changes in 1.7.

I noticed there were quiet a few changes made, one change I see is below, my question is why would this method need a full blown object of Sku, Product, Category. I was wondering why cannot an ID of these objects suffice. In 1.6 I use to do as below, to get the DiscreteOrderITemRequest directly.

I see that now in 1.7,( code snippet pasted below), instead of ID's I would now need to get the product using the id... etc and create DiscreteOrderItem and then pass this to create the DiscreteOrderItemRequest



what I did not understand is why number of layers and why can't just the ID's act as input. Also the method is protected which means I cannot access this method to create the DiscreteOrderItem.

with 1.7 how can I create a BundleOrder and add Discrete orders to it?
Any help on this greatly appreciated

As of today (June 4th, 2012, 1.7 is in early development and should not be considered stable for development). The defect that you mention will also be ported back to 1.6 and you can expect 1.6.2 to be out sometime this week with a fix for merge-cart.

We are completely reworking bundles within the development branch. We will try our best to maintain backward compatibility. If you are early in your development cycle, you can take a look at the new ProductBundle entity which will give you some insight into where we are headed. We will still support programmatic bundles in a manner similar to 1.6.

Also, we are introducing a ProductOption concept in the development branch which will better support multi-skud products (e.g. t-shirt).

Thank you for the insights and placing fixes in 1.6.

I have one quick question. Will you be updating 1.6 with the Tax changes as well

Sai, at this time, I don't believe we are indenting to backport the tax changes.