[Issue] magento/magento2#8171: Price not saved when creating product via REST API

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This issue is automatically created based on existing pull request: #24606: magento/magento2#8171: Price not saved when creating product via REST API

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Description (*)

The change covers adding a default typeId set to simple for new products created if no other is sent in post request.

Fixed Issues (if relevant)

1. magento/magento2#8171: Price not saved when creating product via REST API

Manual testing scenarios (*)

Preconditions (*)

1. Magento 2.4 CE

Steps to reproduce (*)

1. Do a POST request to rest/V1/products? with a minimum payload to create a product.

{
"product": {
"sku": "test",
"name": "test",
"price": 12.5,
"attribute_set_id": 4
}
}

Expected result (*)

1.Created product should have visible and set price.

Actual result (*)

1. [Screenshots, logs or description]
   

Questions or comments

Contribution checklist (*)

• Pull request has a meaningful description of its purpose
• All commits are accompanied by meaningful commit messages
• All new or changed code is covered with unit/integration tests (if applicable)
• All automated tests passed successfully (all builds are green)

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