Configurable - no weight for child products - makes configurable virtual type - no shipping details on checkout

[tomekjordan]

Configurables child by default doesnt have weight set in Edit Configurable (creators),
when Main Configurable product is not saved with Weight before.
So when you forget it - and save later Configurable and its childs > there are no Shipment step at checkout. Checkot proceed like for virtual products - cannot ship to destination

Preconditions (*)

1. Any Magento 2 (tested on M 2.3.1)
2. default config php 7,mysql, apache
3. Varnish disabled for pure results

Steps to reproduce (*)

1. Create Configurable product - dont add any weight on it. Dont Save.
2. Move to -> Create child products> with edit configuration. FORGET to add any weight to childs in table after edit configuration is finished.
3. Save created configurable.
4. Add to Cart configurable product
5. Checkout doesnt show Shipment details (destination address - becuase configurable is treated like "virtual" kind
6. Later Weight attribute can be filled after edit Configuration again - BUT is not giving result. Value is saved, but not reflecting on frontend > checkout still doesnt have Shipment step (indexing, flush cache doesnt fix it)

Expected result (*)

1. Edit Configuration should just include weight field to edit
   OR
2. When configurable's childs are created please allow fields like price, weight to be edited right on configurable product - just like it is done before Configurable save after childs are created - fields are open to input values. But when you Save Configurable finally - fields are marked read only.

Actual result (*)

1. When you forget to set weight and save configurable's child without weight >
2. You can checkout configurable BUT it doesnt provide Shipment step - so checkout process is just like for virtual products - you cannot ship it because you dont have details about weight.

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[seansan]

This issue is also reported here https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/103864/while-creating-configure-product-its-associate-product-are-virtual-instead-of-s

More important: We dont think virtual product creation yes/no should rely solely on a missing weight

We import many many products via sheets/api and sometimes the weight is at this time not known ==> would the result then really really be that we have created dummy/unwanted simple virtual products

[Swahjak]

We dont think virtual product creation yes/no should rely solely on a missing weight

I would like to second that. It's quite common that weights are not immediately available when adding a product. In general it seems more logical (and common) that the default should be simple not virtual.