Shopware custom CLI command to generate demo data on your entity

Shopware creating CLI command to generate demo data on your entity

In this blog post, you will learn how to create a custom command in a Shopware 6 plugin and use it to generate the demo data.

Because Shopware 6 is based on the Symfony framework, it also has its Console available. So you can do most of the stuff you need to do while developing Shopware 6 plugins.

Folder structure

<pluginRoot>
└── src
    ├── Command
    │   └── DemodataCommand.php
    │
    ├── Generator
    │   └── ArticleGenerator.php
    │
    └── Resources
        └── config
            └── services.xml

Registering the command

To register a new command, just add it to your plugin's services.xml and specify the console.command tag:

<service id="Sas\BlogModule\Command\DemodataCommand">
    <argument type="service" id="Shopware\Core\Framework\Demodata\DemodataService"/>
    <tag name="console.command"/>
</service>

Configuring the command

Your command's class should extend from the Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command
class:

class DemodataCommand extends Command
{
    protected static $defaultName = '';

    protected function configure(): void
    {
        //
    }

    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output): int
    {
        //
    }
}

Let’s start with the name of the command (the part after "bin/console"):

// the command description shown when running "php bin/console list"
protected static $defaultName = 'article:demodata';

You can optionally define a description, help message and the input options and arguments
by overriding the configure() method:

protected function configure(): void
{
    $this->addArgument('count', InputArgument::REQUIRED, 'The number of the articles.');
}

Put in the execute() method the code to create demo data:
This method must return an integer number with the "exit status code" of the command. You can also use these constants to make code more readable:

• Command::SUCCESS if there was no problem running the command.
• Command::FAILURE if some error happened during the execution.
• Command::INVALID indicates incorrect command usage: invalid options or missing arguments.

protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output): int
{
    // ... put here the code to create articles

    return Command::SUCCESS;
}

Styling the command

Title

It displays the given string as the command title. This method is meant to be used only once in a given command, but nothing prevents you from using it repeatedly:

$io->title('Article Data Generator');

The console output should be:

Article Data Generator
======================

Table

It displays the given array of headers and rows as a compact table:

$io->table(
    ['Entity', 'Items', 'Time'],
    $demoContext->getTimings()
);

The console output should be:

---------------------- ------- --------------------
  Entity                 Items   Time
---------------------- ------- --------------------
  media                  1000    3.7
  article                1000    6.1
---------------------- ------- --------------------

Progress bar

When executing longer-running commands, it may be helpful to show progress information, which updates as your command runs:

Generating 1000 items for article
---------------------------------

1000/1000 [============================] 100%

! [NOTE] Took 6.1 seconds

Start progress bar: It displays a progress bar with several steps equal to the argument passed to the method (don't progress bar's length of the progress bar is unknown).

// displays a progress bar of unknown length
$context->getConsole()->progressStart();

// displays a 100-step length progress bar
$context->getConsole()->progressStart(100);

Advance progress bar: It makes the progress bar advance the given number of steps.

// advances the progress bar 1 step
$context->getConsole()->progressAdvance();

// advances the progress bar 10 steps
$context->getConsole()->progressAdvance(10);

Finish progress bar: It finishes the progress bar (filling up all the remaining steps when its length is known).

$context->getConsole()->progressFinish();

Creating the data generator

To register a new generator, add it to your plugin's services.xml and specify the shopware.demodata_generator tag:

<service id="Sas\BlogModule\Generator\ArticleGenerator">
    <argument type="service" id="Shopware\Core\Framework\DataAbstractionLayer\Write\EntityWriter" />
    <argument type="service" id="Doctrine\DBAL\Connection" />
    <argument type="service" id="Sas\BlogModule\Content\Article\ArticleDefinition"/>
    <tag name="shopware.demodata_generator"/>
</service>

Now, we need our generator to know its definition class. This is done by overriding the method getDefinition()

public function getDefinition(): string
{
    return ArticleDefinition::class;
}

Put in the generate() method the code to generate demo data:

public function generate(int $numberOfItems, DemodataContext $context, array $options = []): void
{
    $writeContext = WriteContext::createFromContext($context->getContext());

    $payload = [
        // an array of articles
    ];

    $this->writer->upsert($this->articleDefinition, $payload, $writeContext);
}

Running the command

bin/console article:demodata 1000

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Complete classes and XML file

DemodataCommand.php

use Sas\BlogModule\Content\Article\ArticleDefinition;
use Shopware\Core\Framework\Adapter\Console\ShopwareStyle;
use Shopware\Core\Framework\Context;
use Shopware\Core\Framework\Demodata\DemodataRequest;
use Shopware\Core\Framework\Demodata\DemodataService;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;

class DemodataCommand extends Command
{
    protected static $defaultName = 'article:demodata';

    private DemodataService $demodataService;

    public function __construct(DemodataService $demodataService)
    {
        parent::__construct();

        $this->demodataService = $demodataService;
    }

    protected function configure(): void
    {
        $this->addArgument('count', InputArgument::REQUIRED, 'The number of the articles.');
    }

    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output): int
    {
        $io = new ShopwareStyle($input, $output);
        $io->title('Article Data Generator');

        $context = Context::createDefaultContext();

        $request = new DemodataRequest();

        $request->add(ArticleDefinition::class, (int)$input->getArgument('count'));

        $demoContext = $this->demodataService->generate($request, $context, $io);

        $io->table(
            ['Entity', 'Items', 'Time'],
            $demoContext->getTimings()
        );

        return self::SUCCESS;
    }
}

ArticleGenerator.php

use Doctrine\DBAL\Connection;
use Sas\BlogModule\Content\Article\ArticleDefinition;
use Shopware\Core\Framework\DataAbstractionLayer\Write\EntityWriterInterface;
use Shopware\Core\Framework\DataAbstractionLayer\Write\WriteContext;
use Shopware\Core\Framework\Demodata\DemodataContext;
use Shopware\Core\Framework\Demodata\DemodataGeneratorInterface;
use Shopware\Core\Framework\Uuid\Uuid;

class ArticleGenerator implements DemodataGeneratorInterface
{
    private EntityWriterInterface $writer;

    private Connection $connection;

    private ArticleDefinition $articleDefinition;

    public function __construct(
        EntityWriterInterface $writer,
        Connection            $connection,
        ArticleDefinition     $articleDefinition
    ) {
        $this->writer = $writer;
        $this->connection = $connection;
        $this->articleDefinition = $articleDefinition;
    }

    public function getDefinition(): string
    {
        return ArticleDefinition::class;
    }

    public function generate(int $numberOfItems, DemodataContext $context, array $options = []): void
    {
        $authorId = $this->connection->fetchOne('SELECT LOWER(HEX(id)) FROM author');

        $writeContext = WriteContext::createFromContext($context->getContext());

        $context->getConsole()->progressStart($numberOfItems);

        $payload = [];
        for ($i = 0; $i < $numberOfItems; ++$i) {
                        $translations = [
                'en-GB' => [
                    'title' => $title,
                    'teaser' => $context->getFaker()->text(200),
                    'content' => $context->getFaker()->text(50),
                ],
            ];

            $article = [
                'id' => Uuid::randomHex(),
                'active' => true,
                'authorId' => $authorId,
                'translations' => $translations
            ];

            $payload[] = $article;

            if (\count($payload) >= 100) {
                $this->writer->upsert($this->articleDefinition, $payload, $writeContext);
                $context->getConsole()->progressAdvance(\count($payload));
                $payload = [];
            }
        }

        if (!empty($payload)) {
            $this->writer->upsert($this->articleDefinition, $payload, $writeContext);
            $context->getConsole()->progressAdvance(\count($payload));
        }

        $context->getConsole()->progressFinish();
    }
}

services.xml

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services"
           xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
           xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd">

    <services>

        <service id="Sas\BlogModule\Command\DemodataCommand">
            <argument type="service" id="Shopware\Core\Framework\Demodata\DemodataService"/>
            <tag name="console.command"/>
        </service>

        <service id="Sas\BlogModule\Generator\ArticleGenerator">
            <argument type="service" id="Shopware\Core\Framework\DataAbstractionLayer\Write\EntityWriter" />
            <argument type="service" id="Doctrine\DBAL\Connection" />
            <argument type="service" id="Sas\BlogModule\Content\Article\ArticleDefinition"/>
            <tag name="shopware.demodata_generator"/>
        </service>

    </services>
</container>

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