Product catalog
Our first worked example will look at the product data required to display products on the website. Product content is the data that is displayed on the website, for example; product names, product descriptions, prices, and product attributes. It also includes data that is not displayed, but is required for the proper functioning of a website: SKU IDs and categorization data. We will start by looking at the conditions related to the product's catalog import and derive the integration job requirements from there.
The website has a standard catalog import format-an XML file. All product data coming into the website platform must be presented in the standard catalog import format.
The website has a file import process. A file named
catalog.xmlis placed onto the website's server in a directory named/imports/catalog. The import process runs on an hourly cycle and checks for an appropriately named file in this directory. If a file is present, the process picks up the file, imports...
