NAME

XAO::DO::Data::Catalog - object that holds non-translated vendor catalogs

SYNOPSIS

 my $catalog=$odb->fetch('/Catalogs/3m');

 $catalog->import_catalog(categories => $odb->fetch('/Categories'),
                          products   => $odb->fetch('/Products'));

DESCRIPTION

Data::Catalog is a Hash that has the following properties:

CategoryMap

Contains a list of Data::CatalogCategoryMap objects describing how to translate internal categories of the catalog into global categories table for the site.

See XAO::DO::Data::CatalogCategoryMap for more details.

Data

List of Data::CatatalogData objects containing small pieces of original catalog representing either one product or one category.

See XAO::DO::Data::CatalogData for more details.

export_map

Name of export map class that can map from internal products and categories structure to the specific format of the catalog.

See XAO::DO::ExportMap::Base for more details.

import_map

Name of import map class that can map from the specific structure of the catalog (Data::CatalogData objects) to the site products and categories.

See XAO::DO::ImportMap::Base for more details.

source_seq

Each time the catalog is imported into the database this source_seq is incremented and goes into all the imported products. It is possible to know then what products were not imported and remove or de-activate these products in the database.

In addition to being normal Hash data object in OS sense Data::Catalog provides the following methods:

import_catalog (%)

Takes two arguments -- reference to the categories container and reference to the products container and translates entire content of the catalog storing results there.

Example:

 my $catalog=$odb->fetch('/Catalogs/3M');
 my $products=$odb->fetch('/Products');
 my $categories=$odb->fetch('/Categories');

 $catalog->import_catalog(categories => $categories,
                          products => $products);

import_map ()

Returns ImportMap object for that catalog. Object name is stored in `import_map' property.

AUTHORS

Copyright (c) 2005 Andrew Maltsev

Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Andrew Maltsev, XAO Inc.

<am@ejelta.com> -- http://ejelta.com/xao/