Feature import product with category id, instead of category name

[zhhank]

I noticed that import categories is kind of slow, not much faster than magento build-in category model save() in my case. (I am not sure why that happen, maybe the event trigger the reindex processing... ) So I prefer to import products with category id, to avoid loading whole categories from the database. Here is my quick and dirty fix, hope this can help someone:

--- a/app/code/community/AvS/FastSimpleImport/Model/Import/Entity/Category/Product.php
+++ b/app/code/community/AvS/FastSimpleImport/Model/Import/Entity/Category/Product.php
@@ -62,6 +62,12 @@
     protected $_skuEntityIds = array();

     /**
+     * 
+     * use category ids.
+    **/
+    protected $_isCatgoryids = true;
+    
+    /**
      * Checks if a category has already been cleaned out (delete from catalog_category_product where category_id=X
      *
      * @var array
@@ -232,6 +238,9 @@
      */
     protected function _initCategories()
     {
+        if ($this->_isCatgoryids){
+            return $this;
+        }
         $collection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/category_collection')->addNameToResult();
         /* @var $collection Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Category_Collection */

@@ -328,9 +337,15 @@
                 $rowData = $this->_prepareRowForDb($rowData);

                 // entity table data
+                if ($this->_isCatgoryids) {
+                    //customized for catgorids.
+                     $catId = empty($rowData[self::COL_CATEGORY]) ? '' : $rowData[self::COL_CATEGORY];
+                    
+                } else {
                 $catId     = isset($this->_categoriesWithRoots[$rowData[self::COL_ROOT]][$rowData[self::COL_CATEGORY]])
                     ? (int)$this->_categoriesWithRoots[$rowData[self::COL_ROOT]][$rowData[self::COL_CATEGORY]]['entity_id']
                     : 0;
+                }
                 $prodId    = isset($this->_skuEntityIds[$rowData[self::COL_SKU]])
                     ? (int)$this->_skuEntityIds[$rowData[self::COL_SKU]]
                     : 0;
@@ -441,6 +456,10 @@
      */
     public function validateRow(array $rowData, $rowNum)
     {
+        if ($this->_isCatgoryids){
+                return true;
+        }
+        
         static $root = NULL;
         static $category = NULL;
--- a/app/code/community/AvS/FastSimpleImport/Model/Import/Entity/Product.php
+++ b/app/code/community/AvS/FastSimpleImport/Model/Import/Entity/Product.php
@@ -90,6 +90,12 @@
     protected $_mediaValueTableName;

     /**
+     * 
+     * use category ids.
+    **/
+    protected $_isCatgoryids = true;
+
+    /**
      * Attributes with index (not label) value.
      *
      * @var array
@@ -503,6 +509,10 @@
      */
     protected function _initCategories()
     {
+        if ($this->_isCatgoryids){
+            return $this;
+        }
+                
         $transportObject = new Varien_Object();
         Mage::dispatchEvent( 'avs_fastsimpleimport_entity_product_init_categories', array('transport' => $transportObject) );

@@ -1117,15 +1127,17 @@
                 }

                 // 3. Categories phase
+                if ($this->_isCatgoryids) {
+                    $categories[$rowSku][$rowData[self::COL_CATEGORY]] = true;
+                } else {
                 $categoryPath = empty($rowData[self::COL_CATEGORY]) ? '' : $rowData[self::COL_CATEGORY];
                 if (!empty($rowData[self::COL_ROOT_CATEGORY])) {
-                    $categoryId = $this->_categoriesWithRoots[$rowData[self::COL_ROOT_CATEGORY]][$categoryPath];
+                        $categoryId = $this->_categoriesWithRoots[$rowData[self::COL_ROOT_CATEGORY]][self::COL_CATEGORY];
                     $categories[$rowSku][$categoryId] = true;
                 } elseif (!empty($categoryPath)) {
                     $categories[$rowSku][$this->_categories[$categoryPath]] = true;
-                } elseif (array_key_exists(self::COL_CATEGORY, $rowData)) {
-                    $categories[$rowSku] = array();
                 }
+                }

                 if (!empty($rowData['_tier_price_website'])) { // 4.1. Tier prices phase
                     $tierPrices[$rowSku][] = array(
@@ -1624,7 +1636,11 @@
     protected function _validate($rowData, $rowNum, $sku)
     {
         $this->_isProductWebsiteValid($rowData, $rowNum);
+        if ($this->_isCatgoryids){
+                
+        } else {
         $this->_isProductCategoryValid($rowData, $rowNum);
+        }
         $this->_isTierPriceValid($rowData, $rowNum);
         $this->_isGroupPriceValid($rowData, $rowNum);
         $this->_isSuperProductsSkuValid($rowData, $rowNum);
@@ -1804,4 +1820,5 @@
         }
         return false;
     }
+
 }