Magento 2 create the Inventory source programmatically

Question

I am new to Magento 2 Can anyone help me with how to programmatically create the Inventory source? What is the use of the stock channel?

Answer 1

You can create an inventory source via an UpgradeData.php script, I'm not sure how familiar you are with upgrade scripts, but there's plenty of documentation and tutorials around that, so I'll just list the upgrade script part.

namespace VENDOR\MODULE_NAME\Setup;

use Magento\Framework\Setup\UpgradeDataInterface;
use Magento\Framework\Setup\ModuleDataSetupInterface;
use Magento\Framework\Setup\ModuleContextInterface;
use Magento\InventoryApi\Api\Data\SourceInterface;

class UpgradeData implements UpgradeDataInterface
{
    /**
     * @var ResourceConnection
     */
    private $resource;

    /**
     * UpgradeData constructor.
     * @param ResourceConnection $resource
     */
    public function __construct(
        ResourceConnection $resource
    ) {
        $this->resource = $resource;
    }

    /**
     * @param ModuleDataSetupInterface $setup
     * @param ModuleContextInterface $context
     */
    public function upgrade(ModuleDataSetupInterface $setup, ModuleContextInterface $context) {
        $connection = $this->resource->getConnection();
        $sourceData = [
            SourceInterface::SOURCE_CODE => 'ABCD',
            SourceInterface::NAME => 'My New Source',
            SourceInterface::ENABLED => 1,
            SourceInterface::DESCRIPTION => 'My New Source Description',
            SourceInterface::LATITUDE => 41.227791,
            SourceInterface::LONGITUDE => -39.927117,
            SourceInterface::COUNTRY_ID => 'GB',
            SourceInterface::POSTCODE => 'AB1 1AB',
        ];
        $connection->insert($this->resource->getTableName('inventory_source'), $sourceData);
    }

}

Then when you run a setup:upgrade, the upgrade script will add the source to your inventory sources.