InventoryEntry Sync¶

The module used for importing/syncing InventoryEntries into a commercetools project. It also provides utilities for generating update actions based on the comparison of a InventoryEntry against a InventoryEntryDraft.

Usage
Prerequisites
Running the sync
Build all update actions
Build particular update action(s)
Migration Guide
Client configuration and creation
Signature of InventorySyncOptions
Build InventoryEntryDraft (syncing from external project)
Query for Inventories (syncing from CTP project)
JVM-SDK-V2 migration guide

Usage¶

Prerequisites¶

ProjectApiRoot¶

Use the ClientConfigurationUtils which apply the best practices for ProjectApiRoot creation. To create ClientCredentials which are required for creating a client please use the ClientCredentialsBuilder provided in java-sdk-v2 Client OAUTH2 package If you have custom requirements for the client creation, have a look into the Important Usage Tips.

final ClientCredentials clientCredentials =
        new ClientCredentialsBuilder()
        .withClientId("client-id")
        .withClientSecret("client-secret")
        .withScopes("scopes")
        .build();
final ProjectApiRoot apiRoot = ClientConfigurationUtils.createClient("project-key", clientCredentials, "auth-url", "api-url");

Required Fields¶

The following fields are required to be set in, otherwise, they won't be matched by sync:

Draft	Required Fields	Note
InventoryEntryDraft	`sku`	Also, the inventory entries in the target project are expected to have the `sku` fields set.

Reference Resolution¶

In commercetools, a reference can be created by providing the key instead of the ID with the type ResourceIdentifier. When the reference key is provided with a ResourceIdentifier, the sync will resolve the resource with the given key and use the ID of the found resource to create or update a reference. Therefore, in order to resolve the actual ids of those references in the sync process, ResourceIdentifiers with their keys have to be supplied.

Reference Field	Type
`supplyChannel`	ChannelResourceIdentifier
`custom.type`	TypeResourceIdentifier

Note that a reference without the key field will be considered as an existing resource on the target commercetools project and the library will issue an update/create an API request without reference resolution.

Syncing from a commercetools project¶

When syncing from a source commercetools project, you can use toInventoryEntryDrafts method that transforms(resolves by querying and caching key-id pairs) and maps from a InventoryEntry to InventoryEntryDraft using cache in order to make them ready for reference resolution by the sync, for example:

// Build an ByProjectKeyInventoryGet for fetching inventories from a source CTP project without any references expanded for the sync:
final ByProjectKeyInventoryEntriesGet inventoryEntryQuery = client.inventory().get();

// Query all inventories (NOTE this is just for example, please adjust your logic)
final List<InventoryEntry> categories = QueryUtils.queryAll(inventoryEntryQuery,
            (inventories) -> inventories)
            .thenApply(lists -> lists.stream().flatMap(List::stream).collect(Collectors.toList()))
            .toCompletableFuture()
            .join();

In order to transform and map the InventoryEntry to InventoryEntryDraft, Utils method toInventoryEntryDrafts requires projectApiRoot, implementation of ReferenceIdToKeyCache and inventoryEntries as parameters. For cache implementation, You can use your own cache implementation or use the class in the library - which implements the cache using caffeine library with an LRU (Least Recently Used) based cache eviction strategyCaffeineReferenceIdToKeyCacheImpl. Example as shown below:

//Implement the cache using library class.
final ReferenceIdToKeyCache referenceIdToKeyCache = new CaffeineReferenceIdToKeyCacheImpl();

//For every reference fetch its key using id, cache it and map from InventoryEntry to InventoryEntryDraft. With help of the cache same reference keys can be reused.
CompletableFuture<List<InventoryEntryDraft>> inventoryEntryDrafts = InventoryTransformUtils.toInventoryEntryDrafts(client, referenceIdToKeyCache, inventoryEntries);

Syncing from an external resource¶

When syncing from an external resource, ResourceIdentifiers with their keys have to be supplied as following example:

final InventoryEntryDraft inventoryEntryDraft = InventoryEntryDraftBuilder
        .of()
        .sku("sku1")
        .quantityOnStock(1L)
        .custom(CustomFieldsDraftBuilder.of().type(typeResourceIdentifierBuilder -> typeResourceIdentifierBuilder.key("type-key")).fields(fieldContainerBuilder -> fieldContainerBuilder.values(emptyMap())).build())) // note that custom type provided with key
        .supplyChannel(ChannelResourceIdentifierBuilder.of().key("channel-key").build()) // note that channel reference provided with key
        .build();

SyncOptions¶

After the projectApiRoot is set up, an InventorySyncOptions should be built as follows:

// instantiating a InventorySyncOptions
final InventorySyncOptions inventorySyncOptions = InventorySyncOptionsBuilder.of(projectApiRoot).build();

SyncOptions is an object which provides a place for users to add certain configurations to customize the sync process. Available configurations:

errorCallback¶

A callback that is called whenever an error event occurs during the sync process. Each resource executes its own error-callback. When the sync process of a particular resource runs successfully, it is not triggered. It contains the following context about the error-event:

sync exception
inventory entry draft from the source
inventory entry of the target project (only provided if an existing inventory entry could be found)
the update-actions, which failed (only provided if an existing inventory entry could be found)

 final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(InventorySync.class);
 final InventorySyncOptions inventorySyncOptions = InventorySyncOptionsBuilder
         .of(projectApiRoot)
         .errorCallback((syncException, draft, inventoryEntry, updateActions) -> 
            logger.error(new SyncException("My customized message"), syncException)).build();

warningCallback¶

A callback is called whenever a warning event occurs during the sync process. Each resource executes its own warning-callback. When the sync process of a particular resource runs successfully, it is not triggered. It contains the following context about the warning message:

sync exception
inventory entry draft from the source
inventory entry of the target project (only provided if an existing inventory entry could be found)

 final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(InventorySync.class);
 final InventorySyncOptions inventorySyncOptions = InventorySyncOptionsBuilder
         .of(projectApiRoot)
         .warningCallback((syncException, draft, inventoryEntry) -> 
            logger.warn(new SyncException("My customized message"), syncException)).build();

beforeUpdateCallback¶

During the sync process, if a target inventory entry and an inventory entry draft are matched, this callback can be used to intercept the update request just before it is sent to the commercetools platform. This allows the user to modify update actions array with custom actions or discard unwanted actions. The callback provides the following information :

inventory entry draft from the source
inventory from the target project
update actions that were calculated after comparing both

final TriFunction<
        List<InventoryEntryUpdateAction>, 
        InventoryEntryDraft, 
        InventoryEntry, 
        List<InventoryEntryUpdateAction>> beforeUpdateInventoryCallback =
            (updateActions, newInventoryEntryDraft, oldInventoryEntry) ->  updateActions.stream()
                    .filter(updateAction -> !(updateAction instanceof InventoryEntryRemoveQuantityAction))
                    .collect(Collectors.toList());

final InventorySyncOptions inventorySyncOptions = 
        InventorySyncOptionsBuilder.of(projectApiRoot).beforeUpdateCallback(beforeUpdateInventoryCallback).build();

beforeCreateCallback¶

During the sync process, if an inventory entry draft should be created, this callback can be used to intercept the create request just before it is sent to the commercetools platform. It contains the following information :

inventory entry draft that should be created

Please refer to example in product sync document.

batchSize¶

A number that could be used to set the batch size with which inventories are fetched and processed, as inventories are obtained from the target project on the commercetools platform in batches for better performance. The algorithm accumulates up to batchSize resources from the input list, then fetches the corresponding inventories from the target project on the commecetools platform in a single request. Playing with this option can slightly improve or reduce processing speed. If it is not set, the default batch size is 150 for inventory sync.

final InventorySyncOptions inventorySyncOptions = 
         InventorySyncOptionsBuilder.of(projectApiRoot).batchSize(100).build();

cacheSize¶

In the service classes of the commercetools-sync-java library, we have implemented an in-memory LRU cache to store a map used for the reference resolution of the library. The cache reduces the reference resolution based calls to the commercetools API as the required fields of a resource will be fetched only one time. These cached fields then might be used by another resource referencing the already resolved resource instead of fetching from commercetools API. It turns out, having the in-memory LRU cache will improve the overall performance of the sync library and commercetools API. which will improve the overall performance of the sync and commercetools API.

Playing with this option can change the memory usage of the library. If it is not set, the default cache size is 10.000 for inventory sync.

final InventorySyncOptions inventorySyncOptions = 
         InventorySyncOptionsBuilder.of(projectApiRoot).cacheSize(5000).build();

ensureChannels¶

A flag to indicate whether the sync process should create a supply channel of the given key when it doesn't exist in a target project yet. - If ensureChannels is set to false this inventory won't be synced and the errorCallback will be triggered. - If ensureChannels is set to true the sync will attempt to create the missing supply channel with the given key. If it fails to create the supply channel, the inventory won't sync and errorCallback will be triggered. - If not provided, it is set to false by default.

final InventorySyncOptions inventorySyncOptions = 
         InventorySyncOptionsBuilder.of(projectApiRoot).ensureChannels(true).build();

Running the sync¶

After all the aforementioned points in the previous section have been fulfilled, to run the sync:

// instantiating an inventory sync
final InventorySync inventorySync = new InventorySync(inventorySyncOptions);

// execute the sync on your list of inventories
CompletionStage<InventorySyncStatistics> syncStatisticsStage = inventorySync.sync(inventoryEntryDrafts);

The result of completing the syncStatisticsStage in the previous code snippet contains a InventorySyncStatistics which contains all the stats of the sync process; which includes a report message, the total number of updated, created, failed, processed inventories and the processing time of the sync in different time units and in a human-readable format.

final InventorySyncStatistics stats = syncStatisticsStage.toCompletebleFuture().join();
stats.getReportMessage(); 
/*"Summary: 25 inventory entries were processed in total (9 created, 5 updated, 2 failed to sync)."*/

Note The statistics object contains the processing time of the last batch only. This is due to two reasons:

The sync processing time should not take into account the time between supplying batches to the sync.
It is not known by the sync which batch is going to be the last one supplied.

More examples of how to use the sync can be found here.

Make sure to read the Important Usage Tips for optimal performance.

Build all update actions¶

A utility method provided by the library to compare an InventoryEntry with a new InventoryEntryDraft and results in a list of InventoryEntry update actions.

List<InventoryEntryUpdateAction> updateActions = InventorySyncUtils.buildActions(oldEntry, newEntry, inventorySyncOptions);

Examples of its usage can be found in the tests here.

Build particular update action(s)¶

Utility methods provided by the library to compare the specific fields of an InventoryEntry and a new InventoryEntryDraft, and in turn builds the update action. One example is the buildChangeQuantityAction which compares quantities:

Optional<InventoryEntryUpdateAction> updateAction = buildChangeQuantityAction(oldEntry, newEntry);

Migration Guide¶

The inventory-sync uses the JVM-SDK-V2, therefore ensure you Install JVM SDK module commercetools-sdk-java-api with any HTTP client module. The default one is commercetools-http-client.

 <!-- Sample maven pom.xml -->
 <properties>
     <commercetools.version>LATEST</commercetools.version>
 </properties>

 <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.commercetools.sdk</groupId>
       <artifactId>commercetools-http-client</artifactId>
       <version>${commercetools.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.commercetools.sdk</groupId>
       <artifactId>commercetools-sdk-java-api</artifactId>
       <version>${commercetools.version}</version>
     </dependency>
 </dependencies>

Client configuration and creation¶

For client creation use ClientConfigurationUtils which apply the best practices for ProjectApiRoot creation. If you have custom requirements for the client creation make sure to replace SphereClientFactory with ApiRootBuilder as described in this Migration Document.

Signature of InventorySyncOptions¶

As models and update actions have changed in the JVM-SDK-V2 the signature of SyncOptions is different. It's constructor now takes a ProjectApiRoot as first argument. The callback functions are signed with InventoryEntryDraft, InventoryEntry and InventoryEntryUpdateAction from package com.commercetools.api.models.inventory.*

Note: Type UpdateAction<InventoryEntry> has changed to InventoryEntryUpdateAction. Make sure you create and supply a specific InventoryEntryUpdateAction in beforeUpdateCallback. For that you can use the library-utilities or use a JVM-SDK builder (see also):

// Example: Create a inventory update action to change quantity taking the 'newQuantity' of the InventoryEntryDraft
    final Function<Long, InventoryEntryUpdateAction> createBeforeUpdateAction =
        (newQuantity) -> InventoryEntryChangeQuantityAction.builder().quantity(newQuantity).build();

// Add the change quantity action to the list of update actions before update is executed
    final TriFunction<
            List<InventoryEntryUpdateAction>, InventoryEntryDraft, InventoryEntry, List<InventoryEntryUpdateAction>>
        beforeUpdateInventoryCallback =
            (updateActions, newInventoryEntryDraft, oldInventoryEntry) -> {
              final InventoryEntryUpdateAction beforeUpdateAction =
                  createBeforeUpdateAction.apply(newInventoryDraft.getQuantity());
              updateActions.add(beforeUpdateAction);
              return updateActions;
            };

Build InventoryEntryDraft (syncing from external project)¶

The inventory-sync expects a list of InventoryEntryDrafts to process. If you use java-sync-library to sync your inventories from any external system into a commercetools platform project you have to convert your data into CTP compatible InventoryEntryDraft type. This was done in previous version using DraftBuilders. The V2 SDK do not have inheritance for DraftBuilder classes but the differences are minor and you can replace it easily. Here's an example:

// InventoryEntryDraftBuilder in v1 takes parameters 'sku' and 'quantityOnStock'
final InventoryEntryDraft inventoryEntryDraft =
              InventoryEntryDraftBuilder
                      .of("sku", 10L)
                      .restockableInDays(10) //Note: Field 'restockableInDays' is of type Integer
                      .build();

// InventoryEntryDraftBuilder in v2
final InventoryEntryDraft inventoryEntryDraft =
              InventoryEntryDraftBuilder
                      .of()
                      .sku("sku")
                      .quantityOnStock(10L)
                      .restockableInDays(10L) //Note: Field 'restockableInDays' is of type Long
                      .build();

For more information, see the Guide to replace DraftBuilders.

Query for Inventories (syncing from CTP project)¶

If you sync inventories between different commercetools projects you probably use InventoryTransformUtils#toInventoryEntryDrafts to transform InventoryEntry into InventoryEntryDraft which can be used by the inventory-sync. However, if you need to query Inventories from a commercetools project instead of passing InventoryEntryQuerys to a sphereClient, create (and execute) requests directly from the apiRoot. Here's an example:

// SDK v1: InventoryEntryQuery to fetch all inventories
final InventoryEntryQuery query = InventoryEntryQuery.of();

final PagedQueryResult<InventoryEntry> pagedQueryResult = sphereClient.executeBlocking(query);

// SDK v2: Create and execute query to fetch all inventories in one line
final InventoryEntryPagedQueryResponse result = apiRoot.inventory().get().executeBlocking().getBody();

JVM-SDK-V2 migration guide¶

On any other needs to migrate your project using jvm-sdk-v2 please refer to it's Migration Guide.