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Shopping flow URLs
WebSphere Commerce shopping flow URLs are organized by subsystem.
Catalog subsystem URLs
Catalog subsystem URLs include all logic and data relevant to a catalog, including categories, products and their attributes, items, and groupings of each, and any associations or relationships among them.
Catalogs
Catalog subsystem URLs include all logic and data relevant to a catalog,
CatalogUpdate
This URL updates a catalog and its description.

Reference
- WebSphere Commerce API reference
  WebSphere Commerce exposes two main programming APIs. The first and newest API is a REST interface, and most new classes are exposed here. The legacy Java API also contains new classes not suitable for REST, and can be browsed in Javadoc format.
- Cross-reference of data beans, EJB beans, and tables
  Data beans are grouped into several component groups.
- Cross-reference of commands, tasks, and tables
  URL commands, controller commands, task commands, view commands and tables are related to each other.
- Cross reference: Commands to beans to database tables
  Use this information when you are customizing a command and you want to know which tables are affected. You should also use this topic if you are modifying a table and want to know which commands and beans are affected.
- API changes between WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and WebSphere Commerce Version 8.0.0.0
  If you are migrating version 7.0 of WebSphere Commerce, review the API changes between releases.
- WebSphere Commerce database schema
  The WebSphere Commerce database model was designed for data integrity and optimal performance. WebSphere Commerce provides several hundred tables that store WebSphere Commerce instance data. To maintain data integrity, and to ease maintenance referential integrity, constraints are widely used in the database model. Indexes are used carefully on tables to avoid over-indexing and to provide a good balance between data retrieval and data manipulation activities (insert and update). The business rules are implemented at the application level rather than by using database trigger. Triggers, however, are used to facilitate data staging and optimistic locking. A limited number of SQL-based database stored procedures are used for data intensive activities.
- Payments subsystem
  In WebSphere Commerce, payment processing uses the Payments subsystem.
- Dynamic caching
  In general, caching improves response time and reduces system load. Caching techniques are used to improve the performance of World Wide Web Internet applications. Most techniques cache static content (content that rarely changes) such as graphic and text files. However, many websites serve dynamic content, containing personalized information or data that changes more frequently. Caching dynamic content requires more sophisticated caching techniques, such as those provided by the WebSphere Application Server dynamic cache, a built-in service for caching and serving dynamic content.
- Data Load utility configuration file schema
  The Data Load utility contains several configuration files. You can use the configuration file schema to understand and customize the data load configuration files.
- WebSphere Commerce web services
  WebSphere Commerce provides many web services.
- Utilities
  Utilities help you to accomplish administrative or configuration tasks, for example, loading data, publishing a store.
- Shopping flow URLs
  WebSphere Commerce shopping flow URLs are organized by subsystem.
  - Catalog subsystem URLs
    Catalog subsystem URLs include all logic and data relevant to a catalog, including categories, products and their attributes, items, and groupings of each, and any associations or relationships among them.
    - Catalogs
      Catalog subsystem URLs include all logic and data relevant to a catalog,
      - CatalogAdd
        This URL adds a new catalog, including the description and relationships between the new catalog and the store.
      - CatalogDelete
        This URL deletes a catalog and its cascades.
      - CatalogUpdate
        This URL updates a catalog and its description.
    - Categories
      Catalog subsystem URLs include all logic and data relevant to categories.
    - Catalog groups
      Catalog subsystem URLs include all logic and data relevant to groupings.
    - Catalog entries
      Catalog subsystem URLs include all logic and data relevant to a catalog entries.
    - Attributes
      Catalog subsystem URLs include all logic and data relevant to attributes.
    - Interest lists
      Catalog subsystem URLs include all logic and data relevant to interest lists.
    - Offers
      Catalog subsystem URLs include all logic and data relevant to offers.
    - Product sets
      Catalog subsystem URLs include all logic and data relevant to product sets.
  - Member subsystem URLs
    The Member subsystem includes all logic and data relevant to registration, authentication, and grouping of all members. A member can be a user, an organization or organizational entity, or a member group.
  - Messaging system URLs
    The following URLs relate to the Messaging system.
  - Order Management subsystem URLs
    The Order Management subsystem includes all logic and data relevant to placing, processing, and managing orders. The Order Management subsystem also deals with returns.
  - Scheduler URLs
    The server subsystem consists of functions that are associated with URLs that are run by the scheduler.
  - WebSphere Commerce Search URLs
    The starter stores consist of pages that are associated with URLs that are run by WebSphere Commerce Search. You can use the following URLs to invoke various WebSphere Commerce search tasks.
- Ant targets
  A WebSphere Commerce instance can be created from the command line. The command-line utility uses Apache Ant to create the objects required. The targets are divided into several high-level groups that correspond to the environment that is to be configured.
- Glossary

CatalogUpdate URL

This URL updates a catalog and its description.

URL structure

http:// host_name/path/: The fully qualified name of your WebSphere Commerce Server and the configuration path.

Parameter values

catalogId: Required: The reference number of the catalog. The catalog group ID creates a language-dependent catalog description on a created or existing catalog. You must specify either catalogId or identifier.
identifier: Required: The external identifier of the catalog. You must specify either identifier or catalogId.
fImage: The full path image path for the catalog.
tImage: The thumbnail image path for the catalog.
sDesc: The short description of the catalog.
lDesc: The long description of the catalog.
desc: The description of the catalog.
descLangId: The description of the language's reference number.
name: The language-dependent name of the catalog.
URL: The URL to be called when the command completes successfully.

Example

The following example updates catalog 10001, with TestCatalog as the identifier. If the catalog description already exists in the logon language, it will be updated with TestCatalog1 as the name; if the catalog description does not existed, it will be created with TestCatalog1 as the name:


http://host_name/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CatalogUpdate?
catalogId=10001&identifier=TestCatalog&fImage=Fullimage.jpg
&tImage=Thumbnail.gif&sDesc=ShortDescription&lDesc=
LongDescription&name=TestCatalog1&desc=CatalogDescription
&URL=LogonForm

Behavior

Either catalogId or identifier must be supplied. If both are supplied, then catalogId is used.

Exception conditions

None.