A note from 2026: This article was published in 2016. The hybris brand has since been phased out in favor of SAP Commerce Cloud, and legacy tools such as HMC have been deprecated or replaced by Backoffice; this project may require changes to work with current SAP Commerce Cloud versions.


This version of the article is outdated. Please follow the link for the updated version: https://hybrismart.com/2016/08/20/hybris-runtime-development-tools-update/

Overview

In this article, I would like to announce my new project, hybris Runtime Developer Tools. It is a set of web and command-line utilities for hybris developers to make everyday tasks and troubleshooting faster. Each utility is available both as a command-line application and as an API interface, so you can freely combine these components with your own toolset, both web-based and standalone.

hybrisFlexibleSearch (100% ready)
- REST API and a console tool for FlexibleSearchService
- FlexibleSearch command-line interface
- Various output formats, such as TXT, TSV, CSV, and XML
- Using pipes and filters, such as grep, awk, perl, etc.
- Cascade reference resolution: no more PKs in the output
- Handy for testing and troubleshooting
- FlexibleSearch built-in beautifier/reformatter
hybrisTypeSystem (100% ready)
- REST API and a console tool for the type system
- Shows all available types
- Shows detailed information about a type
- Shows detailed information about a type attribute
hybrisBeans (100% ready)
- REST API and a console tool with common configuration
- Shows information about a specific bean
- Changes bean values (!) on the fly
hybrisImpex (0%)
- REST API and a console tool with common configuration
- Impex beautifier/reformatter
- Merging/splitting Impex files
- Moving repeating values into [default=…]
- Syntax validation
- Executing Impexes from the command line (HAC mode)
- Uploading an Impex file as media and executing a cronjob (HMC mode)
hybrisGroovy (0%)
- Executing Groovy scripts
hybrisCronjob (0%)
- REST API and console interface to CronJobs
- Starting/stopping cronjobs
- Changing cronjob attributes
hybrisSession (0%)
- REST API and console interface to sessions
- Changing session attributes
hybrisUsers (0%)
- REST API and console interface to the user and customer service
- Sets the current user by login
- Changes user-related runtime information
hybrisLog (0%)
- Log parsing operations
- Activating/deactivating debug mode for classes
- Hooks for FlexibleSearch requests and Solr requests
hybrisSOLR (0%)
- REST API and console interface to Solr search and the Solr indexer
- Start/stop index
- Request Solr data
- REST API and console tool with common configuration
- Execute Groovy scripts easily
hybrisPWS (0%)
- Console interface to Platform Web Services
hybrisMedia (0%)
- REST API and console interface to media resources
- Creating/changing/removing
- Uploading media files by media code
- Downloading media files by media code

See details in forthcoming publications.

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