idea: a module to import sphere data

[schleichardt]

So the idea is, you checkout a shop template, set credentials and then use sbt shell to import data, like example data for Donut, Sunrise, whatever.

No need to install another stack, like nodejs.

[schleichardt]

@hajoeichler @lauraluiz @nkuehn What do you think?

[nkuehn]

Well, I'm the wrong person to ask. My love for sbt is rather limited.

But even if I loved sbt: We already have a hard time maintaining and keeping the node based commandline importers up to date and complete, so I don't believe that trying to maintain a duplicate implementation without dedicated manpower will result in happy users.

[schleichardt]

I think it already requires a lot of steps to start with sphere and Java:

1. create a merchant center account
2. create a sphere project
3. fork a template/demo, start from scratch
4. install Java tooling like JDK 8 and Maven (sbt is directly available in the templates)
5. enter credentials in a file/wizard/environment arg
6. install nodejs stack
7. import data
8. deploy the shop

Especially for donut it would be so simple. The sbt stuff won't be much, the import stuff would be in Java and also could be separated from sbt. I would love to reduce the effort as much as possible. Often stuff is rated how easy you can start with it.

[nkuehn]

ah, maybe I got you wrong. If your goal is "just" the bootstrapping of a new, empty project and not the ongoing data import / export / synchronizations in a production project the idea may be feasible.

But I would not bind it to sbt but provide the functionality library-level, i.e. as some extension to the SDK so that non-sbt environments can use it, too.

[schleichardt]

Exactly.

It would be like sbt runMain io.sphere.donut.ImportMain and then it deletes the merchant center created default data and creates the one product type and product for Donut. So this is not very sbt specific to run a main method.

[nkuehn]

but then it should also set up the necessary minimal tax categories, shipping rates etc that are often forgotten and then break demos. :-)

2015-09-18 22:09 GMT+02:00 Michael Schleichardt notifications@github.com:

Exactly.

It would be like sbt runMain io.sphere.donut.ImportMain and then it deletes the merchant center created default data and creates the one product type and product for Donut. So this is not very sbt specific to run a main method.

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[schleichardt]

:+1:

[hajoeichler]

Sound like a nice idea to support this specific case. But my vision goes one step further. You just select a template by one click in the MC and everything should be done automagically from your list above. As this a rather future idea, I am fine with a reduce list for now for our demo shops. But therefore I would create specific tasks in the corresponding repos, or?

[schleichardt]

I like the mc idea because the other tech stacks like PHP would benefit from it, but then there is still open how to do this in a batch command for example for tests. So then this mc functionality should be one component which you can use with the node stack or docker.

[hajoeichler]

Good point. We need this functionality independent of the UI. You are right.

[schleichardt]

@lauraluiz @hajoeichler I think this would be great task to show some commercetools JVM SDK + Spring Batch code.

[schleichardt]

An optimistic estimation is 3 days to import categories (I already have for this code) and product types/products. I would directly program it in the Sunrise data repository.

[schleichardt]

we will track the progress here: https://github.com/sphereio/commercetools-sunrise-data