Convert JavaScript object to Associative Array

Hello,

This is small post about converting JavaScript object to  associative array. Recently I was working on a project where I need to iterate through dynamic object. In short I have to create enumeration  for a dynamic object.  Object was dynamic so that all the properties of object were unknown. Following is the function to convert a JavaScript object to JavaScript associative array.

function toArray(_Object){
       var _Array = new Array();
       for(var name in _Object){
               _Array[name] = _Object[name];
       }
       return _Array;
}

So if you have any JavaScript object that can be converted to associative array using above function. New array will have all the object properties as keys and it's values as values and same way we can convert JavaScript associative array can be converted to JavaScript object.

function toObject(_Array){
       var _Object = new Object();
       for(var key in _Array){
              _Object[key] = _Array[key];
       }
       return _Object;
}

Above function will convert JavaScript associative array to Object. New object will have all keys in arrays as property and it's values as values of property.

Hope this will be helpful for you.

Select Item in sencha touch list on load

Hello,

Recently I was working on Sencha Touch application. Requirement was to populate list and select a specific item which was selected by user earlier.

Following is the trick to do it.


myList.on('refresh', function(){
       var recordIndex = myList.store.find('field', 'value');
       myList.select(recordIndex,true,false);  
});


myList.store.find returns the index of record that matches the filters and it will be first match of record. So if you have multiple records with same value in field this will not be useful for you. You must need some unique value.

myList.select will select record in specific index. Second argument is to keep existing selection. In case of multiselect list this will preserve last selection and. Third argument is to suppress the slectionChange event. Sometimes you might have disclosure set on list. So might want to suppress the selection change.

Here select function also accept record or records instead of index. If you have record which were selected earlier, you can directly pass those records in select function as follow.

myList.select(records,true,false);

This is how you can select and item in sencha touch list.

Case Study: Connect Magento with ChannelAdvisor

Hello,

This blog is again on different topic. It will not have single line of code. It's a case study on Synchronizing magento with leading eCommerce platforms.

Magento is very popular eCommerce platform widely used across the globe. eBay is acquiring magento and magento framework will be core part of eBay soon. eBay, Magento and Paypal are going to launch new eCommerce platform called xCommerce.

Sometimes it would be difficult to manage everything for those who sell their stuff online and using Magento and other sites like eBay and Amaozn. Because you have magento orders in magento admin. You can view eBay orders in eBay seller account and same way for Amazon orders. So seller have to process all the orders at different place. Same way it would be difficult to manage inventory.

To resolve this problems, magento should be synchronized with other platforms so that all the process like inventory management and order processing can be done at one place. Since last few months, I am working Magento synchronization with those platforms and I would like to share that experience here as a case study.

So this blog is about ChannelAdvisor

ChannelAdvisor provides you multiple channel for eBay and Amazon. ChannelAdvisor provides set of API to access ChhanelAdvisor account from outside. Those API can be used  synchronize it with Magento.

Inventory API

Inventory API is used to manage inventory. It gives various functions like

-Add item
-Delete item
-Update item
-Set quantity
-Set price and much more.

And it provides ability to send set of attributes for products so that all the magento attributes can be sent to CA. So basically on magento we need to set a cron job which runs every specified time interval and send updates in inventory to CA.

Order API


It gives an order api using which we can retrieve order details and using those details we can insert those orders in magento via code and process them in admin. You can retrieve orders based on specific date range. Also various filters can be applied like get all the pending orders, get all unshipped orders etc. We can control detail level of information. If you want all the information about order or only selected information, this can be controlled in API. Same way one can control number of orders returned by API. If you specify 100 orders, it will return information about 100 orders in one API call. It also gives you full details about customer, so that can be used in Magento to create customer and assign that order to him. Orders can be synchronized by setting a cron job in magento which runs on specified time interval and fetch those orders and create them in Magento.

Also after processing orders tracking information can be sent back to ChannelAdvisor using order API.

This makes complete integration of CA with Magento.

I hope this post helps you and if you are looking for such solution let me know.

Thanks,