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PRO: Sync Woocommerce-Products and JSON

Your situation: You have JSON-data with Products to be stored in the WordPress-Shopsystem Woocommerce.

Solution: With the JCI-Plugin and the Woocommerce-REST API you can create, update and delete Woocommerce-Products.
The following example syncs JSON and Woocommerce-Products.
Other applications would update the prices of a Product out of JSON or the number of available items.
If your data is in XML or CSV: No problem, the PRO JCI-Plugin can read such data too.

JSON-Example: http://api.json-content-importer.com/extra/example-gen-cp-ts/example_events.json

Step 1: Create a JCI-Template needed for authorization
Name of template: dowoo
Curloptions: param1
Twig-Template:

{{_context | json_encode }}

Step 2: Create a 2nd JCI-Template for communication with Woocommmerce

Shortcode:

[jsoncontentimporterpro nameoftemplate="woocreateproduct" orderofshortcodeeval=10]

JCI-Template:
Name of Template: woocreateproduct
URL: http://api.json-content-importer.com/extra/example-gen-cp-ts/example_events.json
Twig-Template:

{% set starttime = ("now"|date("U")) %}
{# set basic parameter #}
{% set wurl = 'YOUR_DOMAIN/wp-json/wc/v3/products' %}
{% set customer_key= 'YOUR_CUSTOMER_KEY' %}
{% set customer_secret = 'YOUR_CUSTOMER_SECRET' %}
{% set jcish_start = '[jsoncontentimporterpro orderofshortcodeeval=10 httpstatuscodemustbe200=no nameoftemplate=dowoo url="' %}
{% set httpheader = 'CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER=Content-Type:application/json##' %}

{#<hr>loop JSON and update or create Products:<hr>#}
{% set listofproductids = [] %}
{% for prodin in _context %}
    {% if prodin.name and prodin.id  %} 
        {#{{prodin.id}}: {{prodin.name}}<br>#}
        {% set listofproductids = listofproductids | merge([prodin.id]) %}
        {# insert or update product #}
        {% set prod = '{"name": "'~prodin.name~'",  "type": "simple", "description": "'~prodin.description~'",  "short_description": "'~prodin.description~'"}' %}
        {% set chhash = (prod|md5) %}
        {% set chfoundid = wp_get_cp_by_cpf_keyvalue("any", "jciwooid", prodin.id) %}
        {% if chfoundid %}  
            {% set valhash = wp_get_custom_field_value(chfoundid.0, "jciwoohash") %}
            {% if valhash.0==chhash %}
                {#no update needed, no data change<hr>#}
            {% else %} 
                {% set wurlupdate = wurl ~ "/" ~ chfoundid.0 %}
                {% set wooauthstr = httpheader ~ jci_woo_calc_auth(customer_key, customer_secret, wurlupdate, 'PUT') ~ ';CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS=' ~ prod  %}
                {% set jc = jcish_start~wurlupdate~'" method="curlput" param1=\''~wooauthstr~'\']' %} 
                {% set z1 = (jc |doshortcode) %}
                {% set z = (z1 | json_decode(TRUE) ) %}
                {% if z.id==chfoundid.0 %}  
                    {% set newcpf = wp_insert_custom_field_keyvalue(chfoundid.0, "jciwoohash", (chhash)) %}
                    update ok: {{prodin.name}}<hr>
                {% else %}
                    update FAILED:<br>{{z1}}<hr>
                {% endif %}
            {% endif %}
        {% else %} 
            {% set wooauthstr = httpheader ~ jci_woo_calc_auth(customer_key, customer_secret, wurl , 'POST') ~ ';CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS=' ~ prod  %}
            {% set jc = jcish_start~wurl~'" method="curlpost" param1=\''~wooauthstr~'\']' %} 

            {% set z1 = (jc |doshortcode) %}
            {% set z = (z1 | json_decode(TRUE) ) %}
            {% set pageidofnewproduct = z.id %}
            new page created: {{pageidofnewproduct}}<hr>
            {% set newcpf1 = wp_insert_custom_field_keyvalue(pageidofnewproduct, "jciwooid", (prodin.id)) %}
            {% set newcpf2 = wp_insert_custom_field_keyvalue(pageidofnewproduct, "jciwoohash", (chhash)) %}
        {% endif %}
    {% endif %}
{% endfor %}
{% set timeafterupdate = ("now"|date("U")) %}
time for update: {{timeafterupdate-starttime}}<br>
{#listofproductids: {{listofproductids | dump}}<br>#}
{#get all product #}
{% set wooauthstrgetprod = httpheader ~ jci_woo_calc_auth(customer_key, customer_secret, wurl , "GET" ) %}
{% set jcget = jcish_start ~ wurl ~ '" method="curlget" param1=\''~wooauthstrgetprod~'\']' %} 
{% set z1gt = (jcget | doshortcode | json_decode(TRUE)) %}
existing products:<br>
{% for p in z1gt %}
    {% if p.id %}  
        {% set pgid = wp_get_custom_field_value(p.id, "jciwooid") %}
        {% if pgid.0 in listofproductids %}  
            ok: {{p.name}} ({{p.id}})<br>
        {% else %} 
            delete {{p.name}} ({{p.id}})<br>
            
            {# way 1: keys in url #}
            {#
            {% set wurldelete = wurl ~ "/"~p.id~"?consumer_key="~customer_key~"&consumer_secret="~customer_secret~"&force=true" %}
            wurldelete: {{wurldelete}}<br>
            {% set jc = jcish_start ~ wurldelete~'" method="curldelete"]' %} 
            #}
            {# way 2: calc auth #}
            {% set wurldelete = wurl ~ "/"~p.id %}
            wurldelete: {{wurldelete}}
            {% set wooauthstrdelprod = httpheader ~ jci_woo_calc_auth(customer_key, customer_secret, wurldelete , "DELETE" ) %}
            {% set jc = jcish_start~wurldelete~'" method="curldelete" param1=\''~wooauthstrdelprod~'\']' %} 
            {% set z1 = (jc |doshortcode) %}
            {#{% set z = (z1 | json_decode(TRUE) ) %}     
            jc: {{jc}}<hr>
            del: {{z1| dump}}<hr>#}
            <hr>
        {% endif %}
    {% endif %}
{% endfor %}
{% set timetotal = ("now"|date("U")) %}
totaltime: {{timetotal-starttime}}

Code-Explanation:

  • Set basic parameter: Replace YOUR_DOMAIN, YOUR_CUSTOMER_KEY and YOUR_CUSTOMER_SECRET by your real values. You must use a https-URL!
  • Then we loop through all JSON elements: In our example the “id” is the unique key to each data/product-element. If there is a CPT with CPF “jciwooid” and the “id” then there is already a Woocommerce-Product for this “id”. Then we check if an update is needed. For that the hash (“chhash”) with the new JSON-data is compared to the hash stored for the present page (CPF “jciwoohash”). If these are not equal, an update is done.
  • If there is no Product for the “id” we create one and store the CPFs “jciwooid” and “jciwoohash”.
  • We also create a list of “id” in the JSON: “listofproductids”.
  • Then we have to check if there are Woocommerce-Products, which are not in the JSON any more. For that we ask Woocommerce for a list of all Products (“z1gt”) and loop through it: If there is a Product with an “id” not in “listofproductids”, this Product is not in the JSON. Those Products we delete from Woocommerce.
  • In the end we have synced the JSON with Woocommerce.
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