How to stop creating product as virtual in magento 2 programatically?

Question

Some time we forgot to add weight to the product and its become an automatically of type virtual product.

I am trying to generate a product of a type "simple" in case we forgot to add weight ...

I would like to by-pass a condition where product type is set as "virtual".

I have done following workaround for this:

in the file : vendor/magento/module-catalog/Model/Product/TypeTransitionManager.php

under function processProduct() i have tried by commenting following line:

$product->setTypeId($productTypeId);

But it is not working.. How can we handle this programmatically?

Answer 1

Overwrite following class:

vendor/magento/module-configurable-product/Controller/Adminhtml/Product/Initialization/Helper/Plugin/Configurable.php

then modify getVariationMatrix method.

/**
 * Get variation-matrix from request
 *
 * @return array
 */
protected function getVariationMatrix()
{
    $result = [];
    $configurableMatrix = $this->request->getParam('configurable-matrix-serialized', "[]");
    if (isset($configurableMatrix) && $configurableMatrix != "") {
        $configurableMatrix = json_decode($configurableMatrix, true);

        foreach ($configurableMatrix as $item) {
            if (isset($item['newProduct']) && $item['newProduct']) {
                $result[$item['variationKey']] = $this->mapData($item);

                if (isset($item['qty'])) {
                    $result[$item['variationKey']]['quantity_and_stock_status']['qty'] = $item['qty'];
                }

                $result[$item['variationKey']]['product_has_weight'] = 1;
                $result[$item['variationKey']]['weight'] = 1;
            }
        }
    }

    return $result;
}

Actually, you need to pass following params:

$result[$item['variationKey']]['product_has_weight'] = 1;
$result[$item['variationKey']]['weight'] = 1;