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...