Forums / Developer / Product creation before adding to basket
Karol Radziuk
Thursday 05 May 2011 1:44:51 am
Hi,
I get product informations from an external provider via SOAP. Before user adds it, eZ must create an product object. Can I do this using workflow?
1. Click add to basket
2. Workflow creates product object and forward ist ID (or even 2 products in one time) to the shop add to basket function (Is it possible? This is the crux of the matter)
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Marko Žmak
Thursday 05 May 2011 5:10:13 am
Just an idea... Why don't you fill your eZ database with product objects generated from this SOAP service and then use a cronjob to update your database regullary?
Then you can use this products with the eZP shop functionality.
Also if you make a call to the SOAP service every time the user adds something to basket, you can have problems due to loss of connectivity or slow connection to the SOAP service.
-- Nothing is impossible. Not if you can imagine it! Hubert Farnsworth
Gaetano Giunta
Thursday 05 May 2011 9:27:28 am
Do you really need to create full-fledged objects, or could you just add information to your order? The orders are quite flexible by themselves...
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Thursday 05 May 2011 11:37:51 pm
I checked the code a little more thoroughly and I see, that workflows are impossible in my case.Trigger starts after checking the ObjectID, so I created the new extension for this.
@MarkoMy approach is to get allways fresh informations.
@GaetanoGood point, I forgot about this. Thanks.
Quoc Huy Nguyen Dinh
Tuesday 24 May 2011 12:37:24 pm
Gaetano, so it is possible to add info in an order / create an order without having a product?
Wednesday 25 May 2011 1:01:47 am
@quoc I do not think so - but I never tried...