Not able to consistently (or globally) overwrite vendor and product

[StefanHenke]

By default, the ord plugin generates fields with "customer":

• products.ordId: "customer:product:...."
• products.vendor: "customer:vendor:Customer:"
• vendor: "customer:vendor:Customer:"

I want to overwrite these values for a SAP-internal case, but faced a few troubles.

What I tried to do is adding the following config to .cdsrc.json:

"cds": {
    "ord": {
      "products": [
        {
          "ordId": "sap:product:eb.bm.tests:",
          "vendor": "sap:vendor:SAP:"
        }
      ],
      "packages": [
        {
          "vendor": "sap:vendor:Customer:"
        }
      ]
     }

This led to an ord which had a correct product section. However, the packages section still had the original product referenced:

"partOfProducts": [
        "customer:product:eb.bm.tests:"
      ]

Maybe this is related to #121.

Besides this, the vendor within the packages was not replaces at all. I think the semantics I used is wrong. However, I did not find a way to apply something like "replace the vendor field in all the packages that are auto-generated by the ord plugin".

[swennemers]

So far the solution is a simplistic overwrite solution. I agree, that we can improve this.

[swennemers]

#129 related, at SAP products are also typically added via global ORD registry repo. Maybe we add a property like existingProductORDId: to the .cdsrc.json that would prevent the creation of a customer product and packages would pickup this product. @Fannon , @StefanHenke, @aramovic79 , @zongqichen , what do you think?

[StefanHenke]

@swennemers: I don´t understand the approach in total, but it sounds promising. What would existingProductORDId hold as a value? Would it be something like sap:product:eb.bm.tests: in my above example so that no products object would be included in the ord document? I´m asking because the packages object does not refer to a product, but a vendor. So, I´m wondering how this would be replaced then.

Could you shed some light on this global ORD registry repo. This is different from the system namespace repo?