What is it?

Some Pipeline Steps and Endpoints for Sitecore Data Exchange Framework.

What does it do?

Dual Purpose:

• It's a demo project hopefully illustrating how to setup your own custom DEF Pipelines, Endpoints, and Pipeline Steps
• It's a working proof of concept project that takes an External data feed (in this case RSS) and, using the BaseIndexable class, writes the external feed to an index for later consumption

What do I need for it?

• Sitecore
• Sitecore DEF: https://dev.sitecore.net/Downloads/Data_Exchange_Framework.aspx
• The package (in Sitecore Packages). Has been tested on 8.1, 8.2, and should work on 9 (given the correct DEF installs)

What do I need if for?

• The example in the project uses a RSS feed for an example external datasource, but a real-world use case would be pulling in job details form an external job application service such as Kenexa
• The idea behind the Index Endpoint is to bring in a mostly-read-only datastore without bringing it in to the content tree. Using an index in this fashion allows you to still use the ContentSearch api

How do I use it

Should be as easy as:

1. Install the package in Sitecore Packages OR

2. Clone, download, whatever, just get these files to your computer

3. Bring the source code into your project

4. Install the package to at least get the Items.

5. Run the Pipeline Batch at /sitecore/system/Data Exchange/DEFIndexer/Pipeline Batches/Process RSS Pipeline

Screenshot:

The Pipeline Batch

The Tags pulled in from the RSS feed