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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide
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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

by Branko Ajzele
September 2018
Beginner to intermediate
218 pages
4h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating extension attributes

Creating a new extension attribute for an existing entity is usually a case of doing the following:

  1. Using setup scripts to set the attribute, column, or table for persistence
  2. Defining the extension attribute via <VendorName>/<ModuleName>/etc/extension_attributes.xml
  3. Adding an after and/or before plugin to the save, get, and getList methods of an entity repository

Moving forward, we are going to create extension attributes for the order entity, that is, customer_note and merchant_note.

We can imagine customer_note as an attribute that does not persist its value(s) in the sales_order table as order entity does, whereas merchant_note attribute does. This is why we created the sales_order.merchant_note column earlier ...

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