Importing a catalogue

Warning

Handling imports works in Oscar, but the code quality of the importer is low as it is only used to populate the sandbox site, and not meant for general usage. So proceed at your own risk!

Importing a catalogue is pretty straightforward, and can be done in two easy steps:

• Reading the catalogue CSV file, line by line, using csv.reader.

• Using the info of each line, start by creating a Product object using the standard Django ORM, set the product attributes, save it, and finally set its ProductCategory, Partner, and StockRecord.

Example

An example of that is the CatalogueImporter used to import catalogues for the sandbox site. The class is available under oscar.apps.partner.importers.

Let’s take a closer look at CatalogueImporter:

class CatalogueImporter(object):
    def __init__(self, logger):
        self.logger = logger

    @atomic
    def _import(self, file_path=None):
        ....

    def _import_row(self, row_number, row, stats):
        ....

The two steps procedure we talked about are obvious in this example, and are implemented in _import and _import_row functions, respectively.

You can find an example of the CSV data that the CatalogueImporter expects in the repository.