I'm migrating legacy data to a new solidus install...
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Given Reed
10/18/2021, 7:21 PMI'm migrating legacy data to a new solidus install, and I'm trying to bring over order history. Luckily I'm only working with completed orders, but I'm running into some hurdles.
I found the bit that loads the admin with sample data and am working with the snippets that generate orders. The problem that I'm running into is that it looks like it's actually walking through the order process (pulling shipping rates, taxes, etc). Is there another place I can just throw all the info to have it build out an old order with the data I'm bringing over?
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Jared Norman
10/18/2021, 7:24 PM
I typically just construct the orders from scratch. You could look at Solidus Importer for some ideas about how that’s done with Shopify order data as a reference.
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Given Reed
10/18/2021, 7:25 PMOooh, good call, I forgot about the importer. I'll take a look at that, thanks!
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dhonig
10/18/2021, 8:55 PMIf you have really messy data something like this might be in order -> https://github.com/castlery/datashift_solidus
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Given Reed
10/18/2021, 9:00 PMI'm coming from Magento, so it's a bit of a mess. I'm trying to combine from multiple table exports into what I can bring into Solidus. I'll definitely take a look
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dhonig
10/18/2021, 9:01 PMFriends dont let friends use magento
dhonig
10/18/2021, 9:01 PMmagneto 1.x , or 2x?
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Given Reed
10/18/2021, 9:03 PM1.x
Also can confirm about friends and magento, we're actually using the site I'm working on as a test to see how big of a hassle it is to switch. The goal is to try to convince our clients to eventually migrate.
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dhonig
10/18/2021, 9:16 PMOk so in 1.0 the product data is using EAV type of schema
dhonig
10/18/2021, 9:16 PMthere is nothing in the spree/solidus world that knows how to import that schema to the Solidus model as is.
dhonig
10/18/2021, 9:17 PMUsing datashift you could write code to pull out the product data from the EAV schema and then format it to the format used by spree's importer or just load it directly using datashift
dhonig
10/18/2021, 9:18 PMSolidus is for a different kind of store owner that knows what they want to do with an idea of how they want to do it
dhonig
10/18/2021, 9:18 PMit is not a competitor to Shopify, Magento or other systems where a "Plugin" solves everything
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Given Reed
10/21/2021, 7:35 PMI ended up using the order importer that's built into solidus (don't know how I didn't know about this before when I was importing products)
https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/blob/master/core/lib/spree/core/importer/order.rb
Given Reed
10/21/2021, 7:36 PMI had to restructure my data a little bit, but it was mostly formatted the same as when I was trying to insert the orders myself. Going through this handled all the stuff that I was struggling with.
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Abdul-Rehman
10/22/2021, 4:46 PM@Given Reed a heads up - use importer carefully because afaik it can create extras in case you make a wrong import and then try to overwrite it i.e. update. Try to remove the faulty imports in case of mistakes and then re-import them to avoid problems. IMO Importer is meant for people who exactly know what they are doing (or maybe we have customized it too much).
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Given Reed
10/22/2021, 5:29 PMgood to know, thanks!
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dhonig
10/23/2021, 3:38 AM@Given Reed nice work. Alot of ugly code though, bu whatever gets teh job done. After all most of this code is throwaway that you only use once.