Oscar Parachute

The Oscar Parachute provides a management command to move import your existing ecommerce data from existing platforms to Oscar.

Installation & Setup

Install parachute using pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/tangentlabs/django-oscar-parachute.git#egg=django-oscar-parachute-dev

Add parachute to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'parachute',
)

Add the database you are using to import from to your database settings:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        ...
    },

    ...

    'old_database': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'old_database',
        'USER': 'root',
        'PASSWORD': 'rootpassword',
    },
}

Use Exsiting Importer

Importing data into Oscar uses the import_from management command that is part of parachute. Assuming you have your database settings provided in your settings file as described above, you can simply run:

./manage.py import_from oscommerce --database=old_database

Alternatively, you can omit the --database argument and you will be prompted by the importer for your database settings.

Creating Your Own Importer

You are using a e-commerce platform that is not (yet) supported by parachute or would like to import from your own e-commerce application? Writing your own importer is a straight forward process.

1. Start with creating a new python module that lives in a folder where it can be found by python. This module should contain the following two files: __init__.py and models.py.

2. The models.py module should contain Django models that allow you

   to use the Django ORM to access the import database. A good starting point, if you don't want to start from scratch, is:

   ./manage.py inspectdb --database=old_database > myimporter/models.py
   

   This will generate a model for each table and, depending on naming conventions in you old database, might even contain related fields connecting models. You might want to go through the models and make changes where the auto-generated models aren't accurate.

3. Subclass the BaseImporter in your __init__.py and implement the

   importer methods as required. Each commandline argument for the import_from command corresponds to an import method that is called when the argument is specified. E.g. to be able to import the catalogue of your application you should overwrite:

   class MyImporter(BaseImporter):
   
       def import_catalogue(self):
           # magically importing all data into Oscar's catalogue
   

   This will allow you to run:

   ./manage.py import_from myimporter --database=old_database --import-catalogue
   

Available Importers

• OSCommerce: OSCommerce

The import_from Command

Oscar Parachute provides a management command import_from that that is used to import from your database directly using the corresponding app to your ecommerce platform, e.g. oscommerce, to access the database through the Django ORM.

The database settings can either be specified in your settings file as an additional entry in the DATABASES dictionary and then be provided to the command using the --database option. Alternatively, you can just run that command without specifying any database details and you will be asked to enter them interactively.

By default, the import process will check for existing data and ignore data entries in the source database that can be found in the Oscar database and would overwrite existing data. The reason for that is that it prevent accidentally overwriting existing data, that might have been altered at an earlier point in time. If you would like to overwrite the data you can use the --force-update option.

The import_from command excepts additional options to restrict the the import to certain types of data. This might cause problems due to interdependencies e.g. between orders, products and users. The available options are:

• --import-customers
• --import-catalogue
• --import-orders

Importing customers and the catalogue (meaning products and categories) are not related and can be ran in arbitrary order but should always be run before importing the orders. Otherwise you will loose the connection between orders, customers and products in the Oscar database.

Contributing

Do the usual github dance: create a fork, create a new branch for a feature or bug fix and open a pull request. Or just open an issue, if you find something that's not working.

License

Oscar Parachute is released under the permissive New BSD license.