Use a flag in Zuora to allow us to identify "active" vs "inactive" data

[jamesgorrie]

Currently we hard code a lot of what comes from Zuora via IDs.

While this works quite well, there is quite a lot of code duplication. It also doesn't scale too well as to add a product would actually need quite a lot of code changes. This isn't a massive problem yet as we don't add products regularly, but it might become one as the portfolio scales.

Could we add a flag in Zuora i.e. a Custom Field which indicates that the data is "active"?

We could then just filter on that flag allowing us to create a product API that is flexible and self-servicable.

Another solution would be to add an alias - which means we could manage that data at the source rather than in the apps that read it

e.g. if we had that data:

const zuoraData = await fetchZuoraData();
const productApiData = zuoraData.products
  .filter((product) => product.isActive === true)
  .map((product) => {
    return {
      id: product.id,
      name: product.name,
      productRatePlans: product.productRatePlans
        .filter((ratePlan) => ratePlan.isActive === true)
        .map((ratePlan) => {
          return {
            id: ratePlan.id,
            name: ratePlan.name,
            ratePlanCharges: ratePlan.ratePlanCharges
              .filter((charge) => charge.isActive === true)
              .map((charge) => {
                return {
                  id: charge.id,
                  name: charge.name,
                  price: charge.price,
                };
              }),
          };
        }),
    };
  });