Commerce Foundation Catalog CommerceQuery

The purpose of this operation is to retrieve Catalog objects and their related items. This operation can be used to retrieve a specific catalog or a list of catalogs using the SearchCriteria where clause.

Syntax

        var queryCatalog = new CommerceQuery<CommerceEntity>("Catalog");
      

Parameters

Parameter

Description

Id

Specifies the catalog to be retrieved using the catalog ID. A Null or empty ID indicates that all Catalogs should be retrieved.

Operation Sequence Components

Operation Sequence Component

Description

CatalogLoader

Executes the search for catalog(s) and caches the result(s).

CatalogDependantCatalogsProcessor

Retrieves the dependant catalogs from Commerce Server.

CatalogRootCategoryProcessor

Retrieves the root category from Commerce Server and loads the root categories and products for the catalog(s).

CatalogSearchableCategoriesProcessor

Retrieves the searchable categories from Commerce Server.

CatalogSourceCatalogsProcessor

Retrieves the source catalogs from Commerce Server.

Related Operation

Description

CommerceQueryRelatedItem<CommerceEntity> ("DependentCatalogs", "Category")

Used to retrieve dependant catalog information for this catalog.

CommerceQueryRelatedItem<CommerceEntity> ("RootCategory", "Category")

Used to retrieve the root category for the catalog.

CommerceQueryRelatedItem<CommerceEntity> ("SearchableCategories", "Category")

Used to retrieve a list of searchable categories for the catalog.

CommerceQueryRelatedItem<CommerceEntity> ("SourceCatalogs", "Category")

Used to retrieve a list of source catalogs for the catalog.

Property

Description

CommerceQueryRelatedItem<CommerceEntity> ("DependentCatalogs", "Category")

Must be a ModelSearch.

CommerceQueryRelatedItem<CommerceEntity> ("RootCategory", "Category"))

Must be a ModelSearch.

CommerceQueryRelatedItem<CommerceEntity> ("SearchableCategories", "Category")

Must be a ModelSearch.

CommerceQueryRelatedItem<CommerceEntity> ("SourceCatalogs", "Category")

Must be a ModelSearch.

CommerceQueryRelatedItem<CommerceEntity> ("DependentCatalogs", "Category")

Must be a ModelSearch.

Return Value

The Response.Items contains the list of the Catalog entities that match the provided search criteria.

If no catalogs are found, Microsoft Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation will not throw an exception, but rather return a count of 0 in the response.

Exceptions

The following exception can be thrown by Microsoft Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation during this operation:

  • FaultException<GeneralOperationFault> - Indicates an operation has resulted in an internal exception being thrown. Details are logged in the event viewer.

Remarks

The Microsoft Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation RequestContext object will contain the user locale information used to get the catalogs in the appropriate language. If the language in the RequestContext is not currently supported, the default language for the catalog(s) will be used.

See Also

Other Resources

Commerce Foundation Catalog

CommerceQuery