com.ibm.commerce.marketing.promotion.dependency

Interface CatalogEntryFactory

All Superinterfaces:

KeyResolver, java.io.Serializable, XMLizable

public interface CatalogEntryFactory
extends KeyResolver, XMLizable

CatalogEntryFactory is the interface which should be implemented by all the CatalogEntry factory implementations.

CatalogEntry is an external entity that promotion depends upon. An implementation of this interface is responsible for looking up and instantiating the CatalogEntry external entity. The implementation must be registered with the ExternalEntityFactoryRegistry.

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
CatalogEntry	getCatalogEntry(CatalogEntryKey key) This method returns the CatalogEntry object having this Catalog Entry Key.

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.commerce.marketing.promotion.dependency.KeyResolver

lookup, reverseLookup

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.commerce.marketing.promotion.xml.XMLizable

fromXML, toXML

Field Detail

COPYRIGHT

static final java.lang.String COPYRIGHT

IBM copyright notice field.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getCatalogEntry

CatalogEntry getCatalogEntry(CatalogEntryKey key)
                      throws DependencyInstantiationException,
                             DependencyMissingException

This method returns the CatalogEntry object having this Catalog Entry Key.

Parameters:

key - is the key for the catalog entry.

Returns:

CatalogEntry that is found.

Throws:

DependencyInstantiationException - is thrown when an error is encountered on catalog entry instantiation.

DependencyMissingException - is thrown when the catalog entry to get does not exist.