The sphere of sphere.io on objects

Question

In Sphere.io , I know that you can attach user data to Product objects using custom attributes.

Is it possible to do something similar with the Customer and Order objects? Just untyped key-value string pairs would be good for my scenario (for now, anyway, later on, I might have to attach JSON documents).

If so, is it also possible to filter objects based on user data?

I am using the Sphere Java SDK .

Answer 1

The custom object API is a simple keystore that can be used to extend objects such as customer or order with custom JSON documents. If you want to associate a birthday with a client, you can implement it using a custom object, where the container can be called "client’s birthdays" and the key will be the client’s identifier. Each time you download a client object and you need a birthday, you will need to retrieve it using its id from the key value store.

The SPHERE.IO backend knows nothing about associations between a client and a birthday. This means that when clients request, it is not possible to include the attached birthday in the request predicate.

The custom object API is also displayed in the Java SDK.

Answer 2

The feature you were looking for is now (August 4, 2015) added to the commercetools platform (formerly known as SPHERE.IO). You can check the release notes .

There is a new type endpoint here that allows you to define reusable types. You can then set the type in order, and that particular order receives the attributes defined in the type.