Source grabs it from the JSON feed, process does the mapping to the Drupal fields in the publication2 content type, and destination defines the content type it will map into:
id: publication_from_westernstubservices label: 'UD host node migration for remote JSON source example' migration_tags: - WS JSON Source source: constants: TITLE_SUFFIX: ' (Imported from remote file)' plugin: url data_fetcher_plugin: http data_parser_plugin: json urls: - https://data.fs.usda.gov/research/westernstubservices/productsservices?station_id=PNW&unit_id=&days_changed=-1&station_mode_id=3&format=json #- modules/custom/ud_migrations/ud_migrations_json_source/sources/udm_remote.json # XPath-like selector. The slash (/) at the beginning is optional. item_selector: /response/products_services fields: - name: src_product_id label: 'Product ID' selector: product_id - name: src_title label: 'Title' selector: title ids: src_product_id: type: integer process: title: src_title field_product_id2: src_product_id destination: plugin: 'entity:node' default_bundle: publication2 optional: []