From ae9c6d4218e1c67f1ebba63d6412ef0648bf8067 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ond=C5=99ej=20Samohel?=
 <33513211+antirotor@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 12:17:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update client/ayon_core/pipeline/publish/lib.py

Co-authored-by: Jakub Trllo <43494761+iLLiCiTiT@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 client/ayon_core/pipeline/publish/lib.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/client/ayon_core/pipeline/publish/lib.py b/client/ayon_core/pipeline/publish/lib.py
index 85b70f11be..f5d5d8acdb 100644
--- a/client/ayon_core/pipeline/publish/lib.py
+++ b/client/ayon_core/pipeline/publish/lib.py
@@ -1097,9 +1097,8 @@ def add_trait_representations(
             trait based representations to add.
 
     """
-    if not has_trait_representations(instance):
-        instance.data[TRAIT_INSTANCE_KEY] = []
-    instance.data[TRAIT_INSTANCE_KEY].extend(representations)
+    repres = instance.data.setdefault(TRAIT_INSTANCE_KEY, [])
+    repres.extend(representations)
 
 
 def set_trait_representations(