Fix Categories were being stripped from products during manual sync.

[iamdharmesh]

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Changes proposed in this Pull Request:

In PR #408, we added support for syncing multiple categories. However, we missed adding this support to manual synchronization. This PR fixes an issue in manual and interval synchronization where categories were being stripped from products synced from Square.

Note

While working on this, I noticed that synced categories do not maintain the parent–child relationship during synchronization. I have reported a separate issue to explore implementation options and potentially address it.

Closes https://linear.app/a8c/issue/SQUARE-231/categories-get-stripped-off-from-products-that-are-synced-from-square

Steps to test the changes in this Pull Request:

1. Square SOR:

   • Create a product in Square with multiple categories.
   • Sync from Square to WooCommerce (via import).
   • Verify that the WooCommerce product has all categories assigned correctly.
   • Update the product on the Square side (e.g., update the product title).
   • Wait for the interval polling to trigger (or trigger it manually).
   • Verify that the WooCommerce product still has all categories assigned correctly and that none are removed.
   • Trigger a manual sync from the settings and verify that the WooCommerce product still has all categories assigned correctly and that none are removed.

2. WooCommerce SOR:

   • Create a product in WooCommerce with multiple categories and sync it with Square.
   • Verify that the Square product has all categories assigned correctly.
   • Update the product on the WooCommerce side (e.g., update the product title).
   • Verify that the Square product still has all categories assigned correctly and that none are removed.
   • Trigger a manual sync from the settings and verify that the Square product still has all categories assigned correctly and that none are removed.

Changelog entry

Fix - Categories were being stripped from products during manual sync.

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