Customer Creation on Shopware-6

A guide on how to create customers on Shopware-6 using Alumio

Customer creation is a straight-forward operation.

Requirements

An input XML file that contains at least the mandatory fields that are depicted in the Shopware-6 Customer creation document.

Name	Type	Comments
salutationId	uuid
firstName	String
lastName	String
email	String
password	String	Only required when the guest is false.
billingAddress.street	String
billingAddress.zipcode	String
billingAddress.city	String
billingAddress.countryId	String
shippingAddress.salutationId	String	Only required, when shippingAddress is given
shippingAddress.firstName	String
shippingAddress.lastName	String
shippingAddress.street	String
shippingAddress.zipcode	String
shippingAddress.city	String
shippingAddress.countryId	String

A sample Customer creation request body is as follows,

How to obtain the Ids

Strategy-1: The IDs must be obtained from an external source or the Shopware provider who created the Store.

Strategy-2: Create a customer on Shopware and perform a GET operation to retrieve the customer along with the relevant IDs.

Perform a GET call for the created customer to get the relevant default IDs.

Setting up the FTP Filesystem to Read customer input files

Navigate to the Filesystem configuration on the Dashboard and create an FTP configuration as shown below, the Root Directory should point to the parent and/or root folder of the FTP.

Create an incoming connection

Refer to the basic guide on how to create configurations in Alumio

https://docs.alumio.com/get-started-with-the-ipaas#creating-an-integration-pipeline

Reading the input XML file to create the customer

If the input file contains multiple customers in a single XML file use the "Get branches from a pattern" transformed to split them into individual tasks.

For example, if the input file is as follows,

Equivalent branches transformer.

Create a Route

Create an Outgoing connection

Any additional modifications to the data and/or payload should be performed by constructing relevant Transformers and invoking them in the correct sequence.

Avoid processing duplicate Customers from input file

Alumio provides an in-built transformer "Filter previously stored entities" that will perform the following tasks,

Filter the input tasks and/or entities that have been already processed by Alumio.
Make an entry in the delta filter storage of the new tasks that were processed by Alumio.

NOTE: It is recommended to invoke the delta filter functionality after branching the records into their individual task.

Setup a delta filter storage

Setup the Delta filter