setData behaving differently for save and update o...

ShashidharGampa · ‎02-03-2021

Hello All,

I have encountered something strange about setData() function for product and wanted to validate if this is correct behaviour.

I was doing a custom product import from command line, the same command should update the product if already exists in DB.

My $data for Add/Update is

Array
(
    [category_ids] => Array
        (
            [0] => 46
        )

    [name] => Dummy Product 1
    [sku] => P03
    [price] => 1990
    [quantity_and_stock_status] => Array
        (
            [qty] => 50
        )

    [description] => <p>Product Description</p>
    [new] => 
    [special_price] => 
    [attribute_set] => Default
)

PHP lines to add product, what worked is

$product->setData($data);

PHP lines to update product, what worked is

foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
    $product->setData($key, $value);
 }

So my result code become

 if (empty($product->getId())) {
    $product->setData($data);
} else {
    foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
        $product->setData($key, $value);
    }
}
$product->save();

So my question is, is this code correct? to update the product we need to setData() to each attribute. If yes, is this the case for all entities in Magento?

Regards,

Shashidhar.G

setData behaving differently for save and update on product

setData behaving differently for save and update on product