Product Import -> Missing categories entry in importfile removes url rewrites

[ulftietze]

Preconditions

1. Magento 2.2.X | probably 2.3 as well
2. PHP 7.0 | 7.1
3. Would be nice to have 2 or more websites

Steps to reproduce

1. Shop contains an existing product with at least following informations:

sku	categories	url_key	product_websites
123456789	Default Category/ExistingCategory1,Default Category/ExistingCategory2	custom-url-key-for-product-123456789	de,at

Attributes like: name | price | url_key | attribute_set_code doesnt matter here.
Actually only interesting point here is: product_websites, but im going to explain later

2. URL Rewrite contains following informations, because first time everything was imported successfully and completely:

url_rewrite_id	entity_type	entity_id	request_path	target_path	redirect_type	store_id	description	is_autogenerated	metadata
1	product	1	custom-url-key-for-product-123456789/	catalog/product/view/id/1	0	1	NULL	1	NULL
2	product	1	custom-url-key-for-product-123456789/	catalog/product/view/id/1	0	2	NULL	1	NULL
3	product	1	existingcategory1/custom-url-key-for-product-123456789/	catalog/product/view/id/1/category/1	0	1	NULL	1	{"category_id":"1"}
4	product	1	existingcategory1/custom-url-key-for-product-123456789/	catalog/product/view/id/1/category/1	0	2	NULL	1	{"category_id":"1"}
5	product	1	existingcategory2/custom-url-key-for-product-123456789/	catalog/product/view/id/1/category/2	0	1	NULL	1	{"category_id":"2"}
6	product	1	existingcategory2/custom-url-key-for-product-123456789/	catalog/product/view/id/1/category/2	0	2	NULL	1	{"category_id":"2"}

3. Import csv with following information (just removed the category information)

sku	url_key	product_websites	store_view_code
123456789	custom-url-key-for-product-123456789	de,at
123456789	custom-url-key-for-product-123456789-de		de
123456789	custom-url-key-for-product-123456789-at		at

4. This also works with following csv
5. Import csv with following information (just removed the category information)

sku	url_key	product_websites
123456789	custom-url-key-for-product-123456789	de,at

Expected result

1. The Url Rewrite Table looks the same as before, because we doesn't change any categories and wanted them inside too!

Actual result

1. Just the follwing information are inside of the url_rewrite table:

url_rewrite_id	entity_type	entity_id	request_path	target_path	redirect_type	store_id	description	is_autogenerated	metadata
1	product	1	custom-url-key-for-product-123456789/	catalog/product/view/id/1	0	1	NULL	1	NULL
2	product	1	custom-url-key-for-product-123456789/	catalog/product/view/id/1	0	2	NULL	1	NULL

Conclusion:

So if you provide an url key but no categories, Magento deletes the existing category url rewrites.
One missing point:

• if you forgot to provide product_websites in your csv file, no url_rewrite is generated or updated. This behavior may be here by default, but i think it's better to renew all information about if the url_key has changed.

Greetz,
Ulf

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[ghost]

Hi @ulftietze it looks like this is duplicate to your issue -> #18234? maybe just edit referenced issue.

[ulftietze]

Hey @engcom-backlog-nazar,

no this is not a duplicate due to the product categorie url rewrites now.
In #18234 we deal with the category url rewrites during creation. This time we have problems with individual product rewrites.
Have a look on my description, this are rewrites with entity_type "product".

I already have a fix for this, but first i have to write/fix some unit test ^^

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[ghost]

Hi @ulftietze thank you for you report, this issue has already fixed in 2.3-develop branch.