\Magento\Sales\Api\Data\OrderInterface::getShippingAddress is gone in 2.0.0-RC2

[mwr]

With the commit 6c1a87a the method getShippingAddress is removed from the \Magento\Sales\Api\Data\OrderInterface.

I don't get why this has been done.

I know that virtual orders don't need a ShippingAddress, but in this case it should just return null.

Can anybody clear things up a bit?

[antonkril]

To support more complicated shipping scenarios, shipping address should be linked to order item shipping information. So to support this in future, shipping address was removed from order.

[cmuench]

@antonkril I think such changes should not be done close before final release in a RC.

[mwr]

@antonkril thank you for the clarifcation. But that brings me to my next question, how can I retrieve the ShippingAddress when working against the OrderInterface / OrderItemInterface?

[fooman]

Changing something this late is bad enough, however I am even more concerned about the lack of adherence to semantic versioning. Removing anything from the API is backwards incompatible and should have triggered a major version update for the Magento_Sales module.

[antonkril]

@cmuench @fooman agree with your comments. After we release stable version of product, versioning and code stability will be enforced by static tools to prevent such situations.