Help for Aimeos

Hello,

I need to skip the Shipping-Data Step in the checkout (easy enough), but I have to prefill it with data I get from an external API.
Is there a function/event, where I can set it? I thought I had something promising, but I deleted it in the meantime, so I can't say, which functions and events I tried. It was something obvious sounding along the lines of "setAddress" on the basket-object I believe.

You should implement a delivery service provider fetching the data from the external service because that place is best suited for that kind of data:
https://aimeos.org/docs/Developers/Library/Service

To add the delivery service nevertheless, you should use the Autofill basket plugin which can add it automatically.

Thanks for the reply.
It dawns on me, that I made a mistake in the description of my problem. With shipping data, I meant the shipping/billing-address of the customer. Very sorry about the confusion.
We don't want to necessarily save any user data (if possible) and let our API handle everything user related. So I would have to skip the Address-Input step, but the shop still wants an address in the end of the checkout process. The Idea was to prefill the addresses with the data I get from my API. The user shouldn't be able to see the step or change anything about it.
Sorry again, for the misleading title and question. Had a stressful day, when I wrote the original question.

Yes, address data is required in some way for sending e-mails even you can configure Aimeos to leave them out in orders by disabling the AddressesAvailable basket plugin.

You could add the address to the basket automatically if you write a basket plugin that listens to the "check.before" or "check.after" notifications. They fire in the basket view and at the checkout summary:
https://github.com/aimeos/aimeos-core/b ... hp#L71-L84

How to write a basket plugin:
https://aimeos.org/docs/Developers/Libr ... et_plugins

Well, that was a fast reply.
I already have a basket Plugin with check.before, which is very convenient.
How can I check, in which step I am, though. I don't want to insert an address/make an api-call everytime check.before triggers, but only if it triggers in the summary. (or I check, if the addresses are empty)
Also, I can get the addresses of a user with the basket object, but how can I set them? I tried setAddress(es), but that's not working out.

This can be closed. I just skipped the address input and disabled the AddressesAvailable-Plugin. That seems to work just fine for me.
Thanks for all your help.