Business context plug-in
The business context plug-in helps generate the business context object. It uses the MVC plug-in framework so that you can specify a customized version. The context plug-in must implement the PortletContextPlugIn interface, which can be initialized and ended along with the WebSphere Commerce Portlet. The default implementation is com.ibm.commerce.foundation.client.portal.services.MVCPortletContextService.
For the MVCPortletContextService plug-in to convert the current language
that is used in the Portal environment to the WebSphere Commerce specific
langId, an extra Locale-to-LanguageId
map is required.
This map can be defined as a property file, WEB-INF/classes/language.properties.
The file format is Locale name = WebSphere Commerce language
Id
. For example, en = -1
.
The MVCPortletContextService plug-in is using a fallback mechanism
to determine the storeId to be used in the WebSphere Commerce business
context. If there is no storeId currently set in the portlet session,
then the plug-in uses the default that is defined in the portlet preference, .ContextDefault-storeId
.
Use Portlet preferences to initialize a business context object
at run time with WebSphere Commerce business context for use with
the client library. The service searches for any portlet preference
name that starts with .ContextDefault-
and uses the
string after that prefix as the name of the context name. The value
of this context is the value that is set for this preference name. For
example, if .ContextDefault-storeId
is the name of
the context default and its value is 10001, then the context name is
storeId and the context value is 10001.
- .ContextDefault-storeId
- Defines the default WebSphere Commerce store identifier that is used in the business context to call the client library. This preference is optional. The default value is 0.
- .ContextDefault-langId
- Defines the WebSphere Commerce default language identifier that is used in the business context to call the client library. This preference is optional. The default value is -1.