Not possible to use Visual Swatch attributes

[simonrl]

Environment and configuration

1. Magento 2 Open Source 2.4.6-p3
2. Akeneo CE 7.0.13
3. Connector 104.3.7

Steps to reproduce

1. have "Simple Select" attribute in Akeneo
2. configure it as "Visual Swatch" in the Akeneo-Connector-Configuration
3. import everything
4. add colors / images to swatch options in Magento
5. import "option"

Expected result

1. The swatch colors/images should stay intact

Actual result

1. The colors/images are removed

Additional info

We also tried to remove the attribute again from the Akeneo-Connector-Configuration's attribute type mapping, which results in: "option"-import works fine, but "attribute" import changes the attribute type in Magento from "Visual Swatch" to "Drop Down". After this is changed manually, the swatch colors/images are still there.

The comment for the Job/Option::insertSwatchOption() reads

Insert Swatch options Values for swatch attributes (visual swatch have no data on V1)

...so how are we supposed to handle Visual Swatches, if no configuration seems to work?

[akosglue]

I could reproduce this issue with
CE 7.0.66
magento 2.4.7
connector 104.3.7
Annoying because you select all the colors for each swatch and in 1 second your work is gone.

edit: after a closer look, this line and the next should be properly changed:

magento2-connector-community/Job/Option.php

Line 560 in 1815946

'type' => ($swatchesAttributes[$swatchesAttributeData['attribute']] === Swatch::SWATCH_TYPE_TEXTUAL_ATTRIBUTE_FRONTEND_INPUT) ? Swatch::SWATCH_TYPE_TEXTUAL : Swatch::SWATCH_TYPE_EMPTY,

so that other types are checked as well like SWATCH_TYPE_VISUAL_ATTRIBUTE_FRONTEND_INPUT
and the correspondent type is inserted like SWATCH_TYPE_VISUAL_COLOR or SWATCH_TYPE_VISUAL_IMAGE, etc.

[akosglue]

@simonrl you may try the aforementioned PR that fixes the color/images issue.
Tested with m2 2.4.7, php 8.3, akeneo 7.0.66 with sample data, connector 104.3.7