com.ibm.commerce.marketing.promotion.dependency

Interface CustomerFactory

All Superinterfaces:

KeyResolver, java.io.Serializable, XMLizable

public interface CustomerFactory
extends KeyResolver, XMLizable

CustomerFactory is the interface which should be implemented by all the Customer factory implementations.

Customer is an external entity that promotion depends upon. An implementation of this interface is responsible for looking up and instantiating the Customer 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
Customer	getCustomer(CustomerKey key, java.util.Hashtable NVP) This method returns the Customer object having this CustomerKey.

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

getCustomer

Customer getCustomer(CustomerKey key,
                     java.util.Hashtable NVP)
              throws DependencyInstantiationException,
                     DependencyMissingException

This method returns the Customer object having this CustomerKey.

Parameters:

key - CustomerKey representing a customer.

NVP - Additional name-value pairs used to resolve the key to a Customer object.

Returns:

Customer object found for the customer key.

Throws:

DependencyInstantiationException - is thrown when an error is encountered on customer instantiation.

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