Skip Address Collection

[cdavaz]

I am trying to skip address collection since it is often not necessary for my use-case (local pickup). However I want to keep the delivery step since I consider "local pickup" a delivery method and in the future plan on adding more delivery methods that do require an address.

I noticed in the docs it is said that:

If you remove the address step but keep the delivery step, the delivery step will break, as it expects the order to have an address.

I've been trying to override the Order StateMachine to handle this but can't find where the address is actually required. I want to modify that logic so it's not required and the Shipments are still created. Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

[ThuktenSingye]

@cdavaz, When transitioning to the delivery state, Solidus runs three before_transition callbacks (Spree::Order):
ensure_shipping_address - Validates that a shipping address exists
create_proposed_shipments - Creates shipments for the order
ensure_available_shipping_rates - Validates that shipping rates are available

you can override above method to conditionally skip address validation and other stuff.