Re: Intelligent imports with a custom hook.

Posted by davidnwelton on Jul 09, 2006; 8:28am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Intelligent-imports-with-a-custom-hook-tp169535p169536.html

> some suppliers send daily inventory updates.
> These are sent in various formats from tab delimited to csv.
>
> so instead of brute force import, the file has to be parsed then
> added/updated to the suppliers facility(ies). I have one supplier that
> has 3 facilities so the inventory imported into each one.
>
>
> Here is the framework I would like to see.
> a Map is passed to a custom parser for that suppler and then is imported
>   into the facility is was meant for. when calling  the service the
> custom routine is passed in.

An import system should be flexible enough to deal with either
receiving, or fetching data.  Some of our suppliers just put the
information on an FTP server for example.  In any case, having a bit
of infrastructure and an example or two for CSV files would be super
cool in terms of giving people a tool that would be very useful in the
real world.

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