Hi everyone we're facing a strange issue with SAP variants. We got hundreds of configurators working on Hybris, but right now we can't load a simple variant loaded through DataHub/idoc/BD10 - meaning, we can't populate the related configurator from a given variant because the whole thing throws exception.
GRAVE: Servlet.service() for servlet [DispatcherServlet] in context with path [/store] threw exception [Request processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot retrieve configuration based on variant [F011851]] with root cause
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot find external configuration for variant [F011851]
at de.hybris.platform.sap.productconfig.runtime.ssc.impl.CommonConfigurationProviderSSCImpl.retrieveExternalConfigurationFromVariant(CommonConfigurationProviderSSCImpl.java:575)
at de.hybris.platform.sap.productconfig.runtime.ssc.impl.CommonConfigurationProviderSSCImpl.retrieveConfigurationFromVariant(CommonConfigurationProviderSSCImpl.java:497)
at de.hybris.platform.sap.productconfig.services.impl.ProductConfigurationServiceImpl.createConfigurationForVariant(ProductConfigurationServiceImpl.java:496)
at de.hybris.platform.sap.productconfig.facades.impl.ConfigurationFacadeImpl.getConfiguration(ConfigurationFacadeImpl.java:120)
at com.ccelera.cpqselectoraddon.facades.CPQSelectorConfigurationFacadeImpl.getConfiguration(CPQSelectorConfigurationFacadeImpl.java:40)
at com.client.sapproductconfigaddon.controllers.AbstractProductConfigController.loadNewConfiguration(AbstractProductConfigController.java:274)
example link:
variant link https://hybris.local:9002/store/clientstore/en/somecategory/p/F011851/configuratorPage/CPQCONFIGURATOR
configurator link https://hybris.local:9002/store/clientstore/en/somecategory/p/CONF-TC1M-SINGOLO/configuratorPage/CPQCONFIGURATOR
where F011851 is the variant of configurable material CONF-TC1M-SINGOLO

Debugging the source code of CPQ, we saw that the CPQ lib is expecting to find a reference to the variant in the CPQ table COMM_PR_FRG_REL:

Does this mean we need to extend our CPQ MATERIALS.TXT filter with all the variants? Like below
range=MARA,MATNR,I,EQ,F011851
This isn't clear from docs, we assumed replicating the ERPVariantProduct through BD91,Bd92,BD93,BD10 was enough, since we see the variant attributes were correctly loaded and shown into HMC/Backoffice.
2018-06-05 16:58:38,779 [WARN] [DataHubActorSystem-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-14] [c.h.d.s.p.DetermineAttributeValueVariant]
thanks nicola