UpdateStandardProduct

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Changed on:

13 Nov 2023

Overview

Update a standard product using the information provided in the event

Plugin Name	Inventory Reference Module
Namespace	[[account.id]].globalinventory

The Inventory Reference Module is the foundation for inventory related implementations. It provides reference Workflows for inventory ingestion and processing. Extensible by design, use this Module as a base to build a solution to the needs of your customers.

The Inventory Module includes the following areas:

Product Catalogue workflow
Inventory Catalogue workflow
Control Group workflow
Virtual Catalogue workflow

Inventory Reference Module

The Inventory Module includes the following areas:

Product Catalog workflow
Inventory Catalog workflow
Control Group workflows
Virtual Catalog workflows

UI Description

Update a standard product using the information provided in the event

Accepts

PRODUCT

Actions

This rule produces a MutationAction that will update the standard product with provided values

Rule parameters

This rule has no Input Parameters.

Event attributes

This rule uses all the event attributes to update a standard product. Note that some attributes represent complex types and their definitions follow the main event attribute definition.

Main Event Attributes

Parameter	Description	Data Type	Required?
ref	The ref of the product	String	Required
type	The type of the product	String	Required
name	The name of the product	String	Required
gtin	The gtin of the product	String	Required
categoryRefs	A list of string category references	[String]	Optional
summary	A brief summary of the product	String	Optional
prices	A list of prices. See the below table for its attributes	[Price]	Optional
taxType	Tax type of this product. See the below table for its attributes	Tax	Optional
attributes	Extra attributes that may be used as part of this product. See the table below for the definition	[Attribute]	Optional

Price sub-attribute

Parameter	Description	Data Type	Required?
type	The type of the price	String	Required
currency	The currency of the price	String	Required E.g. EUR, AUD
value	The value of the price	Floating Point	Required

Tax type sub-attribute

Parameter	Description	Data Type	Required?
country	The country of this tax type	String	Required
group	The tax group	String	Required
tariff	The tariff of this tax type	String	Required

Attribute type sub-attribute

Parameter	Description	Data Type	Required?
name	The name of the attribute	String	Required
type	The type of the attribute	String	Required E.g. STRING, INTEGER, BOOLEAN, OBJECT
value	The value of the attribute	JSON or scalar	Required

Exceptions

If the event attribute

`{ref}`

is null or empty, an EventAttributeNotFoundException will be thrown

Configuration example

1{
2  "name": "FLUENTRETAIL.globalinventory.UpdateStandardProduct"
3}

Language: json

Detailed Technical Description

All the event attributes of the incoming event are parsed/deserialized into a "Product" object which has the following structure

1public class Product {
2
3    @NonNull
4    private String ref;
5
6    private String type;
7
8    private String status;
9
10    private String gtin;
11
12    private String name;
13
14    private String summary;
15
16    private List<String> categoryRefs;
17
18    private List<Price> prices;
19
20    private TaxType taxType;
21
22    private List<Attribute> attributes;
23}

Language: java

Name: Product

Description:

[Warning: empty required content area]

An example JSON payload that represents the event attributes of an incoming event

1{
2  "ref": "STD_1_88",
3  "type": "STANDARD",
4  "status": "ACTIVE",
5  "gtin": "STD_1-87",
6  "name": "Blue Jeans",
7  "summary": "summary",
8  "categoryRefs": [],
9  "prices": [{"type": "RRT", "currency": "EUR", "value": 34.56}],
10  "taxType": {"country": "AU", "tariff": "GST", "group": "GSTG1"},
11  "attributes": [{"name": "isDangerous", "value": false, "type": "BOOLEAN"}]
12}

Language: json

Name: JSON payload

Description:

[Warning: empty required content area]

This rule parses/deserializes all the event attributes into a Product object outlined above. It then creates an "update product mutation" request using all the event attribute values. It uses the

`{ref}`

attribute of the incoming event as the reference of the standard product and

`{rootEntityRef}`

value of the incoming event attribute as the product catalogue reference of the standard product being updated.

Version History

2023-08-03

v2.0.0

refers to plugin