[ic] Shipping Survey

[Andrew Baerg]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:43 PM, William Carr <bill at bottlenose-wine.com>wrote:

>
> I'm glad this came up. I was just working on this today.
>
> What to we do when different carriers offer different services that will
> not fit into our predefined, generic services?
>

> I think in the example above we will have to assume each carrier offers
> essentially the same services which may not be the case.
>

The idea here is not that each carrier offers the same service, but that
the module would map the concept of a ground and express service to one of
the carrier's modes to create sane defaults.

$shipment->all_services is used to expose all of the service options for a
given carrier, from/to address, etc.


>
> In interchange we usually do something like:
>
> UserTag ship_cost
> blah, blah, bah
>
> shipping.asc:
> f [ship_cost mode=GROUND_HOME_DELIVERY]
>
> Today I messed around with an approach like so:
> shipping.asc:
> f [ship_cost carrier=FexEx service=ground]
>
> In my first example we have to assume each carrier's service (or mode) has
> a unique name of pass in a carrier parameter.
>

I would recommend against doing this since you cannot guarantee uniqueness
across carriers. Carrier + Service should always be used.


>
> In the later example we'd have to limit the generic services to the once
> provided by all the carriers used.
>
>
As stated above., I would envision that all carriers would have the generic
services mapped to something by default.

Andrew
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