AEM Commerce connector for Magento and GraphQL

This is an AEM Commerce connector for Magento and GraphQL, that provides some integration of Magento products and categories in the AEM Commerce console, and some authoring features like product and category pickers.

Attention: Projects must use AEM Commerce Add-On for AEM 6.5 instead of the connector unless they use Magento 2.3.5 or earlier or CIF Core Components up to version 1.9.0. We strongly recommend to update existing projects to the AEM Commerce Add-on. See AEM 6.5 Content and Commerce documentation for usage instructions, getting started and development guides.

This project should only be used for AEM 6.4/6.5 projects with Magento up to version 2.4.2 only and works with AEM quickstart. It is compatible with CIF Core Components up to version 1.9.0. For a compatibility overview see versions.

It is also not intended to be used for AEM as a Cloud Service or with the AEM Cloud SDK. For using CIF on AEM as a Cloud Service see AEM Content and Commerce as a Cloud Service documentation.

This connector only provides authoring features, this is not meant to be used to develop frontend components. To develop AEM frontend components, refer to the AEM CIF Core Components project.

Migration

For most projects, a migration from this CIF Connector to the new AEM Commerce Add-On for AEM 6.5 is straight forward as the AEM Commerce Add-On is a full replacement of the CIF Connector. Uninstall the CIF Connector package and replace with the AEM Commerce Add-On package will be the only migration step for most of the projects. Make sure the OSGI configuration for the CIF GraphQL client and the CIF Cloud Services configuration stay in place.

If your project uses an older version of the CIF Connector and CIF Core Components, it is recommended to upgrade first to CIF Core Components 1.8.0 or later.

Modules

The main parts of the project are:

• bundles: contains the following AEM bundles in the sub-folders
  • cif-connector-graphql: the CIF GraphQL connector, based on Magento GraphQL
  • cif-virtual-catalog: the bundle that permits to bind products in the AEM Commerce console
• content: contains the following content packages in the sub-folders
  • cif-connector-graphql: the content package for the CIF GraphQL connector
  • cif-virtual-catalog: the content package for the virtual catalog connector

Installation

For local development and on-prem self-hosted customer deployments you can install all the modules of the connector and also its required dependencies with the all content package.

For AEM AMS customers the CIF Connector is installed like other AEM Feature Packs as it can not be deployed via Cloud Manager, please contact the CSE.

Via "all" package

If you want to use the latest released version, just download it with the Maven Central link located at the top of this README and install it in your running AEM instance. You can also install the latest all content package with mvn clean install -PautoInstallAll.

If you want to build all the modules yourself and get all the latest (yet) unreleased changes, check the building and installing from source section below.

Inclusion as a Maven dependency

While the Connector can be installed via source as mentioned above, you may want to just include it as a dependency in your own Maven project. If doing so, and using the Filevault Package Maven Plugin, make sure to add a configuration to allow for indices as this project makes use of them:

allowIndexDefinitions=true

System Requirements

Starting with version 0.6.0, all connector artifacts will be released with the same version number (reactor release).

For previous versions, we only provide the version requirements of the all package. If you need to check the versions of other modules, simply checkout the corresponding cif-connector-all-x.y.z tag and check the versions of other modules in the corresponding POM files or in the POM of the all project.

For a list of requirements for previous versions, see Historical System Requirements.

CIF Magento GraphQL Configuration

The CIF Magento GraphQL AEM commerce connector has to be configured to access your Magento instance and bind the catalog data. Follow the steps below to configure the bundle:

1. Configure the generic GraphQL instance

   • Go to http://localhost:4502/system/console/configMgr
   • Look for CIF GraphQL Client Configuration Factory
   • Create a child configuration
     • Keep the default service identifier or set something custom. Make sure to use the same value in step 2) below.
     • For GraphQL Service URL enter the URL of your Magento GraphQL endpoint (usually https://hostname/graphql)
     • With Default HTTP method you can define whether the underlying HTTP client will send GET or POST requests. Starting with version 2.3.2, Magento supports and can cache some GraphQL queries when using GET.

2. Configuration of the connector

   • Go to http://localhost:4502/system/console/configMgr
   • Look for CIF Catalog Magento GraphQL Configuration Factory
   • Create a child configuration
     • For Magento GraphQL Service Identifier enter the ID of the GraphQL client you already configured (see "pre-requisites")

3. Create a cloud service configuration for Magento

   • In AEM go to Tools -> General -> Configuration Browser (or http://localhost:4502/libs/granite/configurations/content/view.html/conf)
   • Create a configuration
     • Give it any name you wish
     • Check the Cloud Configurations capability (this is essential since the connector configuration will make use of this capability)
   • Go to Tools -> Cloud Services -> CIF Configuration (or http://localhost:4502/libs/commerce/gui/content/configuration.html/conf)
   • You'll find the configuration created in the previous step there. Click on it and click 'Create configuration'
   • All the fields are required:
     • For Commerce provider choose magento-graphql
     • For Root category id enter the ID of the Magento root category you want to define as the root
     • For Magento store view enter the code of the Magento store view that you want to use
     • For Catalog identifier select the ID of the connector instance you created in the previous step
     • For Graphql client select the GraphQL client you created at step 1

4. Binding of product catalog to AEM resource tree

   • Go to AEM Commerce product console (http://localhost:4502/aem/products.html/var/commerce/products)
   • Click on Create > Bind Products
   • Enter a title and a name
   • For the Context-Aware Configuration select the configuration you created in step 3
   • Save the changes

5. AEM content editor product drag & drop

   • To allow authors to drag & drop product assets from the AEM Assets Browser to a page a project specific configuration is needed to configure which component is used when dragging a product to a page. See AEM documentation about Configuring a Paragraph System so that Dragging an Asset Creates a Component Instance for details.

Usage

The project also provides product and category pickers to be used in any component dialog to select products or categories.

Product Picker

To use the product picker a developer has to add /libs/commerce/gui/components/common/cifproductfield to a component dialog. For example use the following for the cq:dialog:

<product jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" fieldLabel="Product" name="./product" sling:resourceType="commerce/gui/components/common/cifproductfield"/>

The product field allows to navigation to the product a user want to select via the different views. A user also can use the integrated search to find a product. By default the product field will return the ID of the product, but this can be configured using the selectionId attribute.

The product picker field supports the following optional properties:

• rootPath - configure the root path of the virtual catalog data tree to be used (default = /var/commerce/products)
• multiple (true, false) - allows to select one or multiple products (default = false)
• emptyText - to configure the empty text value of the picker field
• selectionId (id, sku, slug, path, combinedSku) - allows to choose the product attribute to be returned by the picker (default = id). Using sku returns the sku of the selected product, while using combinedSku returns a string like base#variant with the skus of the base product and the selected variant, or a single sku if a base product is selected.
• filter (folderOrProduct, folderOrProductOrVariant) - filters the content to be rendered by the picker while navigating the product tree. folderOrProduct - renders folders and products. folderOrProductOrVariant - renders folders, product and product variants. If a product or product variant is rendered it becomes also selectable in the picker. (default = folderOrProduct)

The cifproductfield component requires the cif.shell.picker clientlib. To add a clientlib to a dialog, you can use the extraClientlibs property. See also Customizing Dialog Fields .

Product Drag'n'drop (DnD)

The connector includes a Sling post-processor that makes it possible to DnD a Product on a component, and configure the behavior of the DnD functionality. For example, you can refer to the cq:dropTarget configuration of the productcarousel and productteaser components in the AEM CIF Core Components. The following parameters can be configured:

• selectionId (id, sku, slug, path) - similar to the product picker, see above. Note that the AEM Assets panel does not currently permit to select product variants, so the combinedSku selection of the product picker is not supported by DnD.
• multiple (true, false) - when true, DnDropping a product adds the value to the (array) JCR property so it's possible to select multiple products by DnD. When false, the property value is replaced so a single product can be DnDropped.

Category Picker

The category picker (provided by /libs/commerce/gui/components/common/cifcategoryfield) can be used in a component dialog as well. The following snippet can be used in a cq:dialog configuration:

<category jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" fieldLabel="Category" name="./category" sling:resourceType="commerce/gui/components/common/cifcategoryfield"/>

The category picker field supports the following optional properties:

• rootPath - configure the root path of the virtual catalog data tree to be used (default = /var/commerce/products)
• multiple (true, false) - allows to select one or multiple categories (default = false)
• emptyText - to configure the empty text value of the picker field
• selectionId(id, path, idAndUrlPath) - allows to choose the category attribute to be returned by the picker (default = id). The idAndUrlPath is a special option that will store the category id and Magento's url_path separated by a | character like for example 1|men/tops.

The cifcategoryfield component requires the cif.shell.picker clientlib. To add a clientlib to a dialog, you can use the extraClientlibs property. See also Customizing Dialog Fields .

Using a scaffolding to display the product properties page

The project provides a sample scaffolding that only displays the basic information about a product. To link this scaffolding to your catalog root you have to do the following steps:

1. Open CRXDe Lite and go to /apps/commerce/scaffolding/product
2. Update the cq:targetPath property to point to the root of your catalog
3. Save the changes

To see the properties page go to the products console (in Commerce --> Products) and select a cloud product. The Properties action should be available and it should open the properties page when clicked.

Building and installing from source

Pre-requisites

If you build and install each module manually, the [magento-graphql](https://github.com/ado