fahadbinashraf/datafeeder

Coding Task – Data Feed

A command-line program, based on Laravel Zero.

Specifications

• The program processes a local XML file and pushes the data of that XML file to a DB of choice.
• Errors are logged to a file
• Application is tested using PHPUnit

Installation

clone the git repository

git clone [email protected]:fahadbinashraf/datafeeder.git

Setting up the .env file

The database and logging configurations are done using the environment file

Copy the .env.example:

cp .env.example .env

Running with Docker

The application can be simply executed using docker-compose.

Prerequisites

• docker
• docker-compose

The XML data file (feed.xml)

The XML file by default should be placed in the /data/feed.xml which is used when running the docker container.

Running docker-compose

docker-comopse up --build

This will do the following:

• build the environment
• install composer dependencies
• run database migration (to create the table)
• run unit tests
• run the import:products command

Without Docker

Make sure you have following installed:

• PHP 8.1
• Composer 2

Install dependencies:

composer install

Run database migrations:

php datafeeder migrate

Run tests:

php datafeeder test

Run the import command:

php datafeeder import:products /path/to/file.xml

License

MIT