Need richer Categories data

[nrkapoor]

Currently, the product feed only sends category paths on each product.

For example, the category in product is missing information about:

• id
• name
• full url to category page
• parentIds
• path
• path by ids
• others? children_count, description, display_mode, meta_description, meta_title

Search needs richer category attributes. 

Category attributes metadata? Don't know if search needs it. What are they?

Scenario

• User create or update a category
• Category updates exported using category feed to a service configured to receive the feed

Notes

• Depends on https://github.com/magento/catalog-storefront/issues/25
• Reuse categories cache in database
• Add feed that export categories from cache
• Feed data should be visible in the service configured to receive this data  

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[mslabko]

@nrkapoor we already have story for categories in Storefront: https://github.com/magento/catalog-storefront/issues/25 I think this work related to Search or Saas-Export directly, so lest add the corresponding label or maybe it's better to create new project for it to split work?