Extending JSON API: Sending Confirmation Emails After Customer Deletion

[Paulus-Ragnarr]

Hello Aimeos,

I'm working on extending the JSON API customer delete function, and I would like to implement a feature that sends a confirmation email to the user after their account is deleted. Could you advise on the best way to achieve this functionality?

CustomerDecorator

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<?php

namespace Aimeos\Client\JsonApi\Customer;


class CustomerDecorator
    extends \Aimeos\Client\JsonApi\Base
    implements \Aimeos\Client\JsonApi\Iface
{
    public function delete()
    {
        
    }
}

Thank you for your assistance!

[aimeos]

Usually, you want to send the e-mail also when the account is deleted in any other way (not only via the JSON:API). Also, doing it async has a lot of performance advantages because you can return immediately a response to the requester. Therefore, adding a message to a new queue for deleted accounts and processing that message by a job controller afterwards is the best and cleanest way.

Example for adding a message to a queue:
https://github.com/aimeos/ai-controller ... d.php#L429

How to create a job controller:
https://aimeos.org/docs/latest/cronjobs ... ontroller/

Example for a job controller using a message queue for sending e-mails:
https://github.com/aimeos/ai-controller ... andard.php

[Paulus-Ragnarr]

Hello Aimeos, thank you for the response.

To clarify, am I correct in assuming that I need to extend the delete function found here: https://github.com/aimeos/ai-controller ... d.php#L324 and add a message to a queue within this function?

[aimeos]

Yes, the customer frontend controller is the best place for that and you can extend it with a decorator, so you don't have to extend the class.