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Why I Care About Magento 2 Service Contracts (and you should too)

If you write Magento 2 extensions, eventually you’ll bump into the term "Service Contracts." It sounds formal, a bit bureaucratic — but in reality, they are one of the most practical tools Magento provides to keep your code stable, maintainable, and upgrade-friendly. Think of service contracts as the public API of your module: clean interfaces, predictable data objects, and a clear separation between what other code calls and how your module actually implements the logic.

What is a Service Contract and why Magento recommends them

At its simplest, a Service Contract in Magento 2 is a set of PHP interfaces that define:

• Data structures (Data Interfaces)
• Operations (Service Interfaces)
• Sometimes API exposure (webapi.xml for REST/SOAP)

Magento recommends them because they:

• Define a stable public API for your module.