Standardize shortName for Categories to ensure App and Headless stability
Shopware provides a shortName for SalesChannels to enable environment-agnostic identification, yet this primitive is missing for Categories. This inconsistency forces App developers and Headless integrators to rely on volatile SEO URLs or environment-specific UUIDs to identify "Page Types" (e.g., Home, Support, Landing Page).
By extending shortName to the Category entity, Shopware would provide a stable, indexed, and semantic developer contract. This eliminates the need for redundant repository searches or brittle Custom Field lookups, which currently penalize performance and complicate CI/CD pipelines. Standardizing this across core entities ensures that external systems can resolve both "Shop Context" and "Location Context" using the same native logic, drastically simplifying the integration of marketing, tracking, and CMS-driven Apps.
Justus Maier
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