My website communicates with retail management software for everything related to products on WooCommerce. Whenever synchronisation takes place, all fields present are sent to WooCommerce overwriting existing data if present.
Since I use the "Description" field within the retail management software for other purposes than WooCommerce where I manually enter SEO-optimised product descriptions, is there a way to disable the writing of the "description" and "short_description" fields during the synchronisation phase? I have no way to manipulate the retail management software and was wondering if there was a function that would allow me to do this.
After your suggestion, no many products were synced to WooCommerce. Here's why:
CRITICAL Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function alter_product_fields(), 1 passed in /home/u191122490/domains/hange.com/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 309 and exactly 3 expected in /home/u191122490/domains/hange.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/bazaar-child/functions.php:91
Stack trace:
#0 /home/u191122490/domains/hange.com/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(309): alter_product_fields(Object(WC_Product_Variable))
#1 /home/u191122490/domains/hange.com/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php(189): WP_Hook->apply_filters(Object(WC_Product_Variable), Array)
#2 /home/u191122490/domains/hange.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/includes/rest-api/Controllers/Version3/class-wc-rest-products-controller.php(724): apply_filters('woocommerce_res...', Object(WC_Product_Variable), Object(WP_REST_Request), true)
#3 /home/u191122490/domains/hange.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/includes/rest-api/Controllers/Version3/class-wc-rest-crud-con in /home/u191122490/domains/hange.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/bazaar-child/functions.php alla riga 91
The hook woocommerce_rest_pre_insert_{$this->post_type}_object can be used for altering before inserting/updating a post type through WC Rest API. The $this->post_type can be 'product', 'shop_order', 'shop_coupon'...etc.
/**
* Filters an object before it is inserted via the REST API.
*
* The dynamic portion of the hook name, `$this->post_type`,
* refers to the object type slug.
*
* @param WC_Data $product Object object.
* @param WP_REST_Request $request Request object.
* @param bool $creating If is creating a new object.
*/
return apply_filters( "woocommerce_rest_pre_insert_{$this->post_type}_object", $product, $request, $creating );
This $creating object decides whether it is an update or insert call.
add_filter('woocommerce_rest_pre_insert_product_object', 'alter_product_fields', 10, 3);
function alter_product_fields($product, $request, $creating) {
// $creating -- True If is creating a new object. False is update request
if(!$creating){
$existing_product_details = wc_get_product($product->get_id());
$product->set_description($existing_product_details->get_description());
$product->set_short_description($existing_product_details->get_short_description());
return $product;
}