com.elasticpath.service.catalogview
Interface BrowsingService

All Superinterfaces:

EpPersistenceService, EpService

All Known Implementing Classes:

BrowsingServiceImpl

public interface BrowsingService
extends EpPersistenceService

Provide catalog browsing service.

Method Summary

BrowsingResult

browsing(BrowsingRequest browsingRequest, CatalogViewResultHistory previousBrowsingResultHistory, ShoppingCart shoppingCart, ProductLoadTuner productLoadTuner) Perform browsinging based on the given browsing request and returns the browsing result.

Methods inherited from interface com.elasticpath.service.EpPersistenceService

getObject, getPersistenceEngine, setPersistenceEngine

Methods inherited from interface com.elasticpath.service.EpService

getElasticPath, setElasticPath

Method Detail

browsing

BrowsingResult browsing(BrowsingRequest browsingRequest,
                        CatalogViewResultHistory previousBrowsingResultHistory,
                        ShoppingCart shoppingCart,
                        ProductLoadTuner productLoadTuner)

Perform browsinging based on the given browsing request and returns the browsing result.

By giving the previous browsing result history, you may get response quicker. If you don't have it, give a null. It doesn't affect the result.

By giving a shopping cart, promotion rules will be applied to the returned products.

By giving the product load tuner, you can fine control what data to be loaded for each product. It is used to improve performance.

Parameters:

browsingRequest - the browsing request

previousBrowsingResultHistory - the previous browsing results, give null if you don't have it

shoppingCart - the shopping cart, give null if you don't have it

productLoadTuner - the product load tuner, give null to populate all data

Returns:

a BrowsingResult instance