Synchronize data between your applications thanks to the akeneo/batch component. A use case with Magento integration is introduced.

1. Synchronize easily applications with akeneo/batch component
Magento Meetup 20.03.2019

2. ÜBER MICH
• Gründer von Diglin GmbH
• Magento, OroCommerce, OroCRM,Akeneo Entwickler & Funktional Spezialist
• Organisator Meet Magento CH 2014/2015, verschiedene Hackathon FR/DACH
• Fokus auf online shop, CRM und PIM Entwicklung
• Circa 25 Referenzen in Magento, akeneo & OroXXX Projekte

3. WHAT IS AKENEO ?

4. THE PIM IS THE CRM OF THE PRODUCT
E-COMMERCE
MOBILE APPLICATION
PRINT CATALOG
POINTS OF SALE
ERP
MEDIA SERVER
SUPPLIERS
PURCHASING DPT
MARKETING DPT
CSV
FTP
XML
XLS
SUPPLIERS
PORTAL
CENTRALIZE &
STANDARDIZE
ENRICH
RESEARCH
TRANSLATE
ORGANIZE
COLLECT DATA FROM ANY SOURCE! SPREAD IT TO MULTIPLE CHANNELS1 ENRICH AND CONTROL THE Q UALITY OF
YOUR PRODUCT INFORMATION
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5. WHAT IS A BATCH
• Treatment of the data in bulk
• Cancel issue with business code
• Performances
• Memory consumption
• Handle high volume of data

6. WHAT IS AKENEO/BATCH
• Component appeared in akeneo 1.6
• Inspired from Spring Batch
• At first, integrated into AkeneoBatchBundle since first
versions
• Now, completely bundle decoupled, totally autonomous
• Framework-agnostic

7. WHICH USE CASE ?
• Import / Export of data
• Mass Action
• Data cleanup
• Run internal command
• ...

8. HOW IT WORKS
Source: Grégory Planchat - kiboko

9. HOW IT WORKS
Source: Spring Batch - https://docs.spring.io/spring-batch/trunk/reference/html/domain.html

10. HOW LOOKS LIKE A JOB

11. HOWTO START A JOB

12. PRINCIPLE
• Each job can be decomposed into "Step"
• 2 steps family:
• Trigger
• Treatment
• Job has a JobParameter object

13. ITEMTRIGGER
• Run an unique action, quick (immediat) on an
external component of the batch
• No status (success / failure)
• Example: download a file, clear cache, send an
email, run a command, etc

14. A STEP TRIGGER: REINDEX MAGENTO

15. WHERE IS MY JOB ?

16. ITEMTREATMENT
• Treat a source line by line
• Data Input / Ouput can have different type of
storage
• Can accept or reject an item
• Provide a status (success or failure)

17. ITEMTREATMENT
Source: Grégory Planchat - kiboko

18. ITEM READER
Source: Grégory Planchat - kiboko

19. ITEM WRITER
Source: Grégory Planchat - kiboko

20. JOBREPOSITORY
• Instanciate the objects JobExecution and
StepExecution
• Allow to store the current state of a step
execution
• Allow to retake execution where the error
happens

21. DRAWBACKS
• No conditional execution
• No native parallelization

22. IN ACTION !

23. THANKS / DANKE / MERCI

24. LINKS
• akeneo/batch component:
https://github.com/akeneo/batch
• Spring Batch:
https://docs.spring.io/spring-batch/trunk/reference/
html/domain.html