com.beasys.commerce.ebusiness.catalog.service.query
Interface CatalogQueryManager

public interface CatalogQueryManager

extends CatalogService

Service interface for searching the Product Catalog using various criteria. CatalogQuery objects are used to specify the search criteria.

See Also:

CatalogQueryManagerHome, CatalogQueryManagerImpl, CatalogManager, ProductItem

Method Summary

ProductItemKey[]	search(CatalogRequest request, CatalogQuery query) Returns the results of the search peformed using the supplied catalog query object.
ViewIterator	search(CatalogRequest request, CatalogQuery query, int viewSize) Returns a ViewIterator over the results of the search peformed using the supplied catalog query object.
CategoryKey[]	searchCategories(CatalogRequest request, CatalogQuery query) Returns the results of the search peformed using the supplied catalog query object for categories.

Methods inherited from interface com.beasys.commerce.ebusiness.catalog.service.CatalogService

getCatalogManager

Methods inherited from interface javax.ejb.EJBObject

getEJBHome, getHandle, getPrimaryKey, isIdentical, remove

Method Detail

search

public ProductItemKey[] search(CatalogRequest request,
                               CatalogQuery query)
                        throws java.rmi.RemoteException,
                               CatalogException

Returns the results of the search peformed using the supplied catalog query object.

Parameters:

request - The catalog request object.

catalogQuery - The catalog query object.

Returns:

An array of product item keys.

Throws:

CatalogException - on general error.

searchCategories

public CategoryKey[] searchCategories(CatalogRequest request,
                                      CatalogQuery query)
                               throws java.rmi.RemoteException,
                                      CatalogException

Returns the results of the search peformed using the supplied catalog query object for categories.

Parameters:

request - The catalog request object.

catalogQuery - The catalog query object.

Returns:

An array of category keys.

Throws:

CatalogException - on general error.

search

public ViewIterator search(CatalogRequest request,
                           CatalogQuery query,
                           int viewSize)
                    throws java.rmi.RemoteException,
                           CatalogException

Returns a ViewIterator over the results of the search peformed using the supplied catalog query object.

Parameters:

request - The catalog request object.

catalogQuery - The catalog query object.

viewSize - The view size of the returned ViewIterator.

Returns:

A ViewIterator over the product items returned by the search.

Throws:

CatalogException - on general error.