Value of QuantityBreak and QuantityBreakType entities?

[Christian Carlow-OFBizzer]

Can someone explain the value of the QuantityBreak and QuantityBreakType
entities?  Is the QuantityBreakType entity necessary?  Why wouldn't the
same quantity range be used regardless of the break types?  Also, I
noticed that the "Shipping Estimates" tab on the Catalog->Store app
doesn't even reuse existing quantityBreaks with the same range and
type.  Isn't the point of having the QuanitityBreak entity to reuse the
ids existing ranges? I'm trying to implement quantity ranges for
QuoteItems and the QuantityBreak entities are introducing more
complexity than seems necessary.  I think I remember someone mentioning
on JIRA that QuantityBreaks were something that should possibly be
cleaned up.

[Jacques Le Roux]

I think this seed data give an idea of what is QuantityBreakType and QuantityBreak

     <QuantityBreakType description="Shipping Weight Break" quantityBreakTypeId="SHIP_WEIGHT"/>
     <QuantityBreakType description="Shipping Quantity Break" quantityBreakTypeId="SHIP_QUANTITY"/>
     <QuantityBreakType description="Shipping Price Break" quantityBreakTypeId="SHIP_PRICE"/>
     <QuantityBreakType description="Price Component Quantity Break" quantityBreakTypeId="QUANTITY"/>
     <QuantityBreakType description="Price Component Order Value Break" quantityBreakTypeId="ORDER_VALUE"/>

For me it comes down to this http://markmail.org/message/bta245fsl7nylkuj
But I could be wrong, I never used QuantityBreakType and QuantityBreak in production. Seems Nicolas has a clear idea about it

Jacques

Le 24/03/2014 13:43, Christian Carlow a écrit :
> Can someone explain the value of the QuantityBreak and QuantityBreakType entities?  Is the QuantityBreakType entity necessary?  Why wouldn't the
> same quantity range be used regardless of the break types?  Also, I noticed that the "Shipping Estimates" tab on the Catalog->Store app doesn't even
> reuse existing quantityBreaks with the same range and type.  Isn't the point of having the QuanitityBreak entity to reuse the ids existing ranges?
> I'm trying to implement quantity ranges for QuoteItems and the QuantityBreak entities are introducing more complexity than seems necessary.  I think
> I remember someone mentioning on JIRA that QuantityBreaks were something that should possibly be cleaned up.
>