com.ibm.commerce.experimentation.runtime

Interface ExperimentService

All Known Implementing Classes:

ExperimentServiceImpl

public interface ExperimentService

This class serves as the service facade between clients of experimentation function and the experimentation runtime infrastructure. Experiments will be evaluated upon invocation of this service according to the specified store element type, and the caller can retrieve the result of the evaluated experiments through the result getter method.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static java.lang.String	COPYRIGHT IBM copyright notice field.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
DynamicEntity[]	getResults() This method gets the experiment result after the appropriate command is invoked and the evaluation logic is performed.
void	invokeService(java.lang.Integer storeElementTypeId, java.lang.Integer storeElementId, java.sql.Timestamp currentTime, CommandContext commandContext) This method invokes the experimentation evaluation command according to the given store element type.

Field Detail

COPYRIGHT

static final java.lang.String COPYRIGHT

IBM copyright notice field.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getResults

DynamicEntity[] getResults()

This method gets the experiment result after the appropriate command is invoked and the evaluation logic is performed.

Returns:

Entity objects that represent the experiment result.

invokeService

void invokeService(java.lang.Integer storeElementTypeId,
                   java.lang.Integer storeElementId,
                   java.sql.Timestamp currentTime,
                   CommandContext commandContext)
            throws ECException

This method invokes the experimentation evaluation command according to the given store element type.

Parameters:

storeElementTypeId - The ID of the store element type, which is the type of object that is used to display content in the store front.

storeElementId - The ID of the store element, which is the object that is used to display content in the store front.

currentTime - The current timestamp.

commandContext - The current command context.

Throws:

ECException - Thrown whenever an exception occurs during experiment runtime evaluation.