At this point, the following steps should already be achieved by the Data Integration (DI) team:
The load request is done for every document JSONL (following the required Data Structure) required for your Data Integration process, once they are generated.
For a product data sync, make sure the following tables have been prepared and are provided: doc_product, doc_attributes, doc_attribute_values and doc_languages
Requirements
The following requirements must be followed if you want to save the JSONL (#1) and load the JSONL (#2) in your custom project.
If you are happy to use the Boxalino service for content storage & processing, you can ignore the requirements list.
The load request will subject your content to:
saving your JSONL (for every data type required for the data sync type) in a Google Cloud Storage Bucket from the Boxalino project
for Instant Updates : the files have a retention policy of 1 day
for Delta Updates: the files have a retention policy of 7 days
for Full Updates: the files have a retention policy of 30 days
loading every JSONL in a BigQuery table in Boxalino project
Boxalino will provide access to the data Storage Buckets and BigQuery datasets that store your data.
BigQuery Datasets
Using different datasets for different data integration processes (delta, full, instant) will allow the set of default table expiration. By doing so, you are following BigQuery Storage Optimization best practices as described in the documentation.
1. Naming
The BigQuery dataset in which your account documents are loaded can be named after the data index and process it is meant to synchronize to:
if the request is for the dev data index - <client>_dev_<mode>
if the request is for the production data index - <client>_<mode>
, where:
<client> is the account name provided by Boxalino.
<mode> is the process F (for full), D (for delta), I (for instant)
Example, for our an account boxalino_client, the following datasets must exist (upon your integration use-cases):
for dev index: boxalino_client_dev_I, boxalino_client_dev_F, boxalino_client_dev_D
for production data index: boxalino_client_I, boxalino_client_F, boxalino_client_D
The above datasets must exist in your project.
2. Location
Upon the creation of your dataset, please use the Data Location: EU
3. Permissions
In order to have read & write access to your private dataset, please provide the following permissions to the Data Integration Service Account (DISA) 55483703770-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com:
BigQuery Data Viewer
BigQuery Metadata Viewer
BigQuery Data Editor / Owner
BigQuery Job User
or BigQuery Admin to the created datasets datasets.
Storage Bucket
1. Naming
In your custom project must be available the storage buckets in which #1 step can be done (loading your generated JSONL document).
Follow the Google documentation on how to create storage buckets.
The storage buckets have the requirement to be unique within the scope of the integration. Please use the following naming formula:
<your-custom-project>_<your-boxalino_account>_dev
<your-custom-project>_<your-boxalino-account>
2. Location
For content storage, please use either Multi-region (eu) or Region (europe-west1).
3. Permissions
In order to have load & read access to your private Google Cloud Storage buckets, please provide the following permissions to the Data Integration Service Account (DISA) 55483703770-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com:
Storage Object Creator
Storage Object Admin
The above permissions can be replaced with the Storage Admin role.
Request Definition
Endpoint | full data sync | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delta data sync | ||
| 2 | instant-update data sync | ||
| 3 | stage / testing | ||
| 4 | Action | /load | |
| 5 | Method | POST | |
| 6 | Body | the document JSONL | |
| 7 | Headers | Authorization | Basic base64<<DATASYNC API key : DATASYNC API Secret>> |
| 8 | Content-Type | application/json | |
| 9 | project | (optional) the project name where the documents are to be stored; | |
| 10 | dataset | (optional) the dataset in which the doc_X tables must be stored;
| |
| 11 | bucket | (optional) the storage bucket where the doc_X will be loaded; if not provided, the service will use the Boxalino project. | |
| 12 | doc | the document type (as described in Data Structure ) | |
| 13 | client | your Boxalino account name | |
| 14 | dev | only add it if the dev data index must be updated | |
| 15 | mode | D for delta , I for instant update, F for full technical: the constants from the GcpClientInterface https://github.com/boxalino/data-integration-doc-php/blob/3.0.0/src/Service/GcpRequestInterface.php#L18 | |
| 16 | tm | time, in format: YmdHis technical: used to identify the version of the documents and create the content. | |
| 17 | ts | timestamp, must be millisecond based in UNIX timestamp technical: calculated from the time the data has been exported to BQ; the update requests will be applied in version ts order; https://github.com/boxalino/data-integration-doc-php/blob/3.0.0/src/Service/Flow/DiRequestTrait.php#L140 | |
| 18 | type | integration type (product, order, etc) | |
| 19 | chunk | (optional) for loading content by chunks | |
A LOAD REQUEST code-sample is available in the data-integration-doc-php library: https://github.com/boxalino/data-integration-doc-php/blob/3.0.0/src/Service/Flow/LoadTrait.php
Optionally, if you are to use an advanced rest client , you can configure it as such:
Integration Strategy
doc_attribute, doc_attribute_value, doc_language can be synchronized with a call to the load endpoint
doc_product / doc_order / doc_user must be loaded in batches / via public GCS link
GCP has a size limit of 32MB for POST requests
we recommend avoiding it by receiving a public GCS load URL (steps bellow)
Load By Chunks
In order to upload the content in chunks, the following requests are required:
make an HTTP POST call to /load/chunk endpoint .
The HTTP headers must include a new property - chunk.
the chunk value (number or textual) can be the order of the batch / pagination / SEEK strategy used for content segmentation / etc
This endpoint returns a public URL. This is used to load content https://github.com/boxalino/data-integration-doc-php/blob/3.0.0/src/Service/Flow/GcsLoadUrlTrait.php
the received link is generated by GCS. It will be unique per each loaded segment.
with the response from step #1, load the document content (PUT)
repeat step#1 + step#2 (in a loop) until all your product/order/customers content has been uploaded
the chunk value is updated (as part of the iteration)
the same tm value must be used
make an HTTP POST call to load/bq endpoint
It will inform BQ to load the stored GCS content to your dataset
https://github.com/boxalino/data-integration-doc-php/blob/3.0.0/src/Service/Flow/LoadBqTrait.php
The HTTP headers must have the required properties as described in the Request Definition
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