It should be possible to set a flag for auto-publishing of products on create and/or update

[butenkor]

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[pgbytes]

Publish Updates:

Possible configs

• always
• published
• stagedAndPublishedOnly
• publishedOnly

In case of existing product

• always: published in all cases.
• publishedOnly: published if it was already published
  • published = true, does not check any other conditions.
• stagedAndPublishedOnly: published with the staged changes and was already published
  • hasStagedChanges = false and published = true

In case of new product

• not supported yet, as it requires a separate publish action.

[pgbytes]

@butenkor @emmenko @PhilippSpo @hajoeichler please confirm if this needs to be implemented as stated above.
Also need suggestions on how we can handle the publishing of new products.
It would require a separate step for publishing new products, since the update action cannot be appended to the create method.

[butenkor]

@panshul007 "published" and "publishedOnly" might be not valid use cases, right? There is no need to publish already published product if it does not have staged changes (application has to check that otherwise you will get API error). Here "always" will cover the requirement of both.

Question: If product does not have staged changes yet but you have generated update actions for it to send you will assume it has staged changes, right?

API might provide publishing on create. Just add your votes: http://support.sphere.io/forums/201737-api/suggestions/11565363-support-product-publishing-on-product-create-reque ;)

Separate step for publishing on create sounds ok and i think currently there is no other way.

[butenkor]

So after discussion we have now probably only 2 use cases to consider:

always -> hasStagedChanged = true
publishedOnly- > (hasStagedChanged = true && (old product was published before))

[pgbytes]

The current feature has been implemented for Price updates only. But needs to be called in the product import as well. Refer to this commit dfeb920
for extending the functionality with relevant tests for the product import.
Also the condition for new products needs to be considered for this feature.
Please refer to the publishingStrategy description here: https://github.com/sphereio/sphere-product-import/blob/master/readme/price-importer.md#configuration

[pgbytes]

Also consider publishing new products according to the publishing strategy as now it is possible from the API to publish new products on creation without an extra request.