Batcher and CSV parser utilities

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Connect Platform for Optimizely Data Platform (ODP) has utilities to help you batch API calls and parse CSV files.

Batcher

Batcher makes it easy to batch API calls that support arrays of records or call structures. For more information, see the App SDK API Reference documentation.

Batcher takes a function as input that takes an array of records and returns a promise. For example, you can use the z.customer or z.event function from the Connect Platform Node SDK to send customer updates or ODP events in batches.

Sample batcher

Below is an example of using batcher to send customer updates to ODP in bulk:

import {CustomerPayload, z} from '@zaiusinc/node-sdk';
import * as App from '@zaiusinc/app-sdk';
import {Customer} from './Customer';

export class CustomerBatchImporter {

  public async transform() {
    const customerBatch = new App.Batcher(z.customer);

    const customers = await this.getCustomers();
    for (const customer of customers) {
      await customerBatch.append(this.transformToODPCustomer(customer));
    }

    await customerBatch.flush();
  }

  private async getCustomers(): Promise<Customer[]> {
    // get customers from external source
  }

  private transformToODPCustomer(customer: Customer): CustomerPayload {
    // transform customer to ODP customer payload
  }
}

CSV parser

To parse CSV files, use the App SDK's CsvStream.