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The information contained in this section applies to IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and Feautre Pack 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
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WebSphere Commerce provides many tutorials.
Programming model
WebSphere Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to creating customized code to develop and enhance WebSphere Commerce applications. The following tutorials provide sample guides to customizing elements of the WebSphere Commerce programming model.
Extending a search profile to retrieve and display custom data in the storefront
In this tutorial, you learn how to create catalog data and display this data in the storefront by using the search-based catalog navigation noun.
Customizing the Business Object Mediator to map the new warranty columns from the search index to the user data field of the CatalogEntryView noun
In this lesson, the Business Object Mediator is modified to map the new search results to the user data field of the CatalogEntryView noun. You do this by extending the business object mediator configuration to include the 3 new warranty fields warterm, wartype and careinstruction.

Introduced in Feature Pack 2

Customizing the Business Object Mediator to map the new warranty columns from the search index to the user data field of the CatalogEntryView noun

Introduced in Feature Pack 2

In this lesson, the Business Object Mediator is modified to map the new search results to the user data field of the CatalogEntryView noun. You do this by extending the business object mediator configuration to include the 3 new warranty fields warterm, wartype and careinstruction.

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Procedure

Navigate to the com.ibm.commerce.catalog-ext directory. You must create this directory if it does not already exist.
- WC\xml\config\com.ibm.commerce.catalog-ext
Open the wc-business-object-mediator.xml file. You must create this file if it does not already exist.
For an example of BOM configuration changes, see the tutorial: Adding new properties to a WebSphere Commerce service using the data service layer.

Copy the following snippet into the file:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
In this file we map the warranty data from the search results into the CatalogEntryView noun for use on the storefront.
The Name field is the name in the returned noun, the value field is the name we defined in the search index for warranty data. 
-->
<_config:BusinessObjectMediatorConfiguration
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/commerce/foundation/config ../xsd/wc-business-object-mediator.xsd" xmlns:_config="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/commerce/foundation/config">

  <_config:object logicalType="com.ibm.commerce.catalog.facade.datatypes.CatalogNavigationViewType"
physicalType="com.ibm.commerce.catalog.facade.server.services.search.metadata.solr.SolrCatalogNavigationViewImpl">
<_config:mediator interfaceName="com.ibm.commerce.foundation.server.services.dataaccess.bom.mediator.ReadBusinessObjectMediator"
className="com.ibm.commerce.catalog.facade.server.services.dataaccess.bom.mediator.solr.SolrReadCatalogNavigationViewMediator">

<_config:mediator-properties>

<_config:mediator-property name="CatalogEntryView/UserData[(Name='WARRANTYTERM')]" value="warterm" />
<_config:mediator-property name="CatalogEntryView/UserData[(Name='WARRANTYTYPE')]" value="wartype" />
<_config:mediator-property name="CatalogEntryView/UserData[(Name='CAREINSTRUCTION')]" value="careinstruction" />
</_config:mediator-properties>

</_config:mediator>
</_config:object>
	 
</_config:BusinessObjectMediatorConfiguration>

Save your changes and close the file.

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