Re: Services for Product Category hierarchies

[David E. Jones]

-David


On Feb 10, 2007, at 8:53 PM, Jonathon -- Improov wrote:

I'd recommend using the ProductSearch and related classes. They have features for searching for products (if you're looking for products, of course) in categories and their sub-cats, and many other things.

Chris,




> could answer..."For what?"





Jonathon

Chris Howe wrote:

Can I say that I can safely ignore ProductCategory.primaryParentCategoryId in my logics, but still dutifully populate it (ie, copy value from ProductCategoryRollup.parentProductCategoryId)? > I'd be happy to answer your "Do I use CategoryWorker.java" question if you Trying to do a "deep search" for all descendants of a ProductCategory, the entire hierarchy. Yeah, I know I shouldn't have said "for retrieving all the child categories". Sorry. :P

There may be a service, but depending on what data you're trying to
retrieve it may be unnecessary to use. Is doing a search against the
ProductCategoryRollup entity insufficient?
ProductCategory.primaryParentCategoryId is a

entry should exist in  ProductCategoryRollup.  It's non-normalized
because ProductCategoryRollup doesn't have a rollupTypeId field to
specify an importance that the "primary" part of the description
depicts.  Being non-normalized here is rather trivial.

you could answer..."For what?"
--- Jonathon -- Improov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

denormalized/non-normalized field. It's denormalized because the same I'd be happy to answer your "Do I use CategoryWorker.java" question if

Is there a service for retrieving all the child categories belonging

child category to have more than 1 parent category.

What about field ProductCategory.primaryParentCategoryId?

I see services "createProductCategory" (and update) used to create

"updateProduct".

Do I use the CategoryWorker.java?

Jonathon

to a parent category? Is the related entity ProductCategoryRollup? This entity seems to allow a the necessary ProductCategoryRollup record, but not anymore. Same for service

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