Variation order not matching attribute order

Not an issue to be resolved, more of a “why?”

I have stock scripts that talk to my online site and update the site when stock or prices change.

Initially, I thought that I could take the [‘attributes’] array and that would give me all the data needed to access the [‘variations’] array. I’d assumed, wrongly, that [‘attributes’][0] would equate to [‘variations’][0].

Of course, it doesn’t. And I’m puzzled why it does not. The variations appear to be in the reverse order to the attributes – is this intended?

As I said initially, this is not an issue to be “resolved” – I re-wrote my scripts to find the variation id in a different way, but I am still puzzled.

Dennis

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