DRHughes00 on "[Plugin: WooCommerce] Refunds made on orders not visible through API"

From the UI is absolutely fine, no issues there.

From the API not quite as good.

Say there are 500 orders, 1 call to the endpoint get/orders gets all the information needed except refunds. It then requires 500 more API calls to see if there are any refunds associated with any particular order.

What I am suggesting is that a flag is set in the order when a refund is made against that order.

So, (bad pseudocode follows!):

Refund is made on order 453.
Flag 'has_refund' set to true on order 453.

Sometime later.....

List all orders (get/orders)
foreach order
Any refunds been made?
If true: make an API call to retrieve the refund.

As I assume most orders will not have refunds (in our case it would probably be around 0.5 - 1 per cent), the number of additional API calls is dramatically reduced.

As an afterthought I guess the other way of streamlining this would be to have a get/refunds endpoint (I can't see one in the docs) which could possibly be even better. 1 call to get the orders, 1 call to get the refunds and your own code to do the heavy lifting.

Or both. :)

Dennis