Variants take on SKU name instead of variant name

[basedceo]

What I'm trying to achieve

… create a product with variants similar to the pre-defined ones (red hoodie similar to existing black hoodie)

Steps to reproduce the problem

1. create a product with the type Top (clothing)
2. Create some variants using the create similar variant method (multi variant creation is very buggy btw, but I have a separate bug report open for that)
3. If you enter the sku for the variant and click save, it will name the variant after the sku, if you don't enter a sku it gets a long alpha-numeric name (possibly a variant ID)
4. this sku/variant name also shows in the storefront for the product, so its a very big problem as the customer will not understand what variant they are choosing

What I expected to happen

The variant to have a more sensible name given to it automatically, such as the variant attributes value (that's what all the pre-made products seem to do), or have an option to specifically define the name of the variant in the dashboard.

Screenshots

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/99623735/160668043-a3f5eea7-9db0-4923-b79a-55162530f79c.mp4

Http request and response from inspector

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Console output

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System information

Saleor version:

• [ ] dev (current main)
• [ ] 3.0
• [x] 3.1.7
• [ ] 2.11
• [ ] 2.10

Operating system:

• [ ] Windows
• [ ] Linux
• [ ] MacOS
• [ ] Other

Browser:

• [ ] Safari
• [ ] Chrome
• [ ] Edge
• [x] Other, Firefox I should also add that this is a problem with version 3.1.4, version 3.0 doesn't seem to have this problem

[RyanTamulevicz]

I see you said that this issue is happening at 3.1.4 and 3.1.7, but I also had it at 3.1.0.

[basedceo]

@RyanTamulevicz yeah, if you downgrade to 3.0 it doesn't seem to have this problem, I'm guessing the issue was introduced in a more recent commit.

[RyanTamulevicz]

I can also confirm this isn't an issue directly with the dashboard directly it seems... Using Dashboard 3.0.0 and updated API Core, it still changes the variant names to the SKU

[timuric]

Related #2000

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