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[castcontrol]

Hi,

I'm having difficulties creating a shippin gmodule for X-Cart 5.2.13.

It seems the documentation for shipping modifications is outdated and no longer compatible with the latest version:
http://kb.x-cart.com/display/XDD/Shipping+modifications

1. Uploaded module from https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23858825/Tony-ShippingDemo-v5_1_0.tar
2. Redeploy Store
3. Modules displays "The module is not compatible with your X-Cart version". Simple fix, updated Main.php getMajorVersion() to return '5.2' and redeploy.
3. Enable Module and receive the following error:

Cleaning up the cache... [0.00sec, 3.5MB (60kB)]
Building classes tree... [3.36sec, 13.6MB (10.1MB)]
Run the "Doctrine_Plugin_Cache" plugin... [0.00sec, 13.7MB (139kB)]
Run the "Doctrine_Plugin_DocBlock_FakeEntities" plugin...
Fatal error: Class XLite\Module\Tony\ShippingDemo\Model\Shipping\Proc essor\MyProcessor contains 1 abstract method and must therefore be declared abstract or implement the remaining methods (XLite\Model\Shipping\Processor\AProcessor::getPro cessorId) in /home3/arindus2/public_html/classes/XLite/Module/Tony/ShippingDemo/Model/Shipping/Processor/MyProcessor.php on line 31

4. Resolved this problem by replacing line 7 of MyProcessor.php with the following and rebuilding:

PHP Code:

public function getProcessorId() 
    {
        return 'myprocessor';
    } 


The enable/redeploy now runs smoothly however the module appears to not do anything, the "Store Setup -> Shipping" methods do not include the ShippingDemo or "My Processor" and there are no relative errors in the logs files.

Comparing to the other Shipping Modules, it seems that performRequest() replaces getRates() and i have attempted renaming the getRates() with performRequest() but still appears to do nothing.

Any advise on how to proceed?

[xgarb]

I've been having the same problem. I discovered this method

    /**
     * Return params list to use for search
     *
     * @return \XLite\Core\CommonCell
     */
    protected function getSearchCondition()
    {
        $result = parent::getSearchCondition();
        $result->{\XLite\Model\Repo\Shipping\Method::P_CARRIER} = '';
        $result->{\XLite\Model\Repo\Shipping\Method::P_ADDED} = true;
        $result->{\XLite\Model\Repo\Shipping\Method::P_ORDER_BY} = array('m.position', 'ASC');

        return $result;
    }

in \XLite\View\LitemsList\Model\Shipping\Carriers.php

Which shows the fields in the _shipping_methods table need to have certain values.

The yaml file for the UPS module has the following

XLite\Model\Shipping\Method:
  - processor: ups
    carrier: ''
    code: ''
    enabled: false
    added: false
    position: 0
    moduleName: XC_UPS
    translations:
      - code: en
        name: UPS

  - processor: ups
    carrier: ups
    code: 'NDA'
    enabled: 1
    position: 10
    translations:
      - code: en
        name: "UPS Next Day Air®"

Fiddling around with this has got my carrier to show in the admin area.. but that's as far as I've got so far.