IMPORT-WORKFLOW.md

Import workflow

+---+
|CSV+-+
+---+ |  +----+   +--------+     +-------+
      +->+JSON+-->+IMPORTER+---->+process|
+---+ |  +----+   +-------++     |Product|
|XML+-+                   |      +---+---+
+---+                     v          ^
                        +-+-----+    |
                        |process+----+
                        |P. Type|
                        +-------+

This component expects a JSON input with product data

Optionally ensure product-type for enums

Often the product data needs to be updated with new enum values, regardless if those values are already existing in the attribute definition or not.

If this is not the case, the data cannot be saved.

To ensure that those values are present when importing product data, there should be an automatic process that handles this.

The workflow for that should be as following:

• custom data transformers will prepare the json data
• the importer will read the json file and build a product-type out of it
• the node-sdk will create the needed update actions by comparing the assembled product-type and the existing one
• the product data will then be imported