David,
I'm looking for descendant ProductCategory(s), not Products. I'll reuse codes from ProductSearch
if possible. Thanks.
My objective: Trim options to manageable size for field "Primary Category" in screen
"LookupProduct".
If such a service isn't there yet, I could create one. For now, I just have it in my custom
hot-deploy app (as a bsh script, not service). Let me know if we should discuss about this service
and put it into OFBiz instead.
Jonathon
David E. Jones 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.
-David
On Feb 10, 2007, at 8:53 PM, Jonathon -- Improov wrote:
Chris,
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
> could answer..."For what?"
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
Jonathon
Chris Howe wrote:
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
denormalized/non-normalized field. It's denormalized because the same
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.
I'd be happy to answer your "Do I use CategoryWorker.java" question if
you could answer..."For what?"
--- Jonathon -- Improov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there a service for retrieving all the child categories belonging
to a parent category? Is the related entity ProductCategoryRollup?
This entity seems to allow a
child category to have more than 1 parent category.
What about field ProductCategory.primaryParentCategoryId?
I see services "createProductCategory" (and update) used to create
the necessary ProductCategoryRollup record, but not anymore. Same
for service
"updateProduct".
Do I use the CategoryWorker.java?
Jonathon
