Bulk APIs for Orders Storage Module

Current situation or problem:

In order to facilitate migrations in a timely and efficient manner, the Orders Storage module needs to have batch APIs. POSTing, PUTting and DELETEing records one HTTP request and database commit at a time is unusably slow for large data sets.

In scope:

• Bulk Create/Update for PO Lines
• Bulk Delete (with CQL query parameters) for PO Lines
• Bulk Create/Update for Purchase Orders
• Bulk Delete (with CQL query parameters) for Purchase Orders

Out of scope:

Batch APIs for acquisitions units, alerts, order templates and prefixes/suffixes are not required. The anticipated order of magnitude for these record sets is not sufficient to require batch handling. The individual record APIs are sufficient.

Use case(s):

• Initial Data Migration, including iterative data load/delete

Comments:

In order for these APIs to be effective, they need to bypass the business logic and go directly to the storage module. This means that bulk creation of purchase orders will not connect data to the Invoices, Receiving or Finance modules. The user of these APIs is responsible for maintaining data integrity; documentation needs to reflect this.

Questions:

Can the Orders module function properly with just purchase orders and PO Lines, or do titles and pieces need to be created as well? If so, then these would probably need bulk APIs, as well.