com.ibm.commerce.marketing.promotion.dependency

Interface CustomerProfileFactory

All Superinterfaces:

KeyResolver, java.io.Serializable, XMLizable

public interface CustomerProfileFactory
extends KeyResolver, XMLizable

CustomerProfileFactory is the interface which should be implemented by all the CustomerProfile factory implementations.

CustomerProfile is an external entity that promotion depends upon. An implementation of this interface is responsible for looking up and instantiating the CustomerProfile 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
CustomerProfile	getCustomerProfile(CustomerProfileKey key) This method returns the CustomerProfile object having this CustomerProfileKey.

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

getCustomerProfile

CustomerProfile getCustomerProfile(CustomerProfileKey key)
                            throws DependencyInstantiationException,
                                   DependencyMissingException

This method returns the CustomerProfile object having this CustomerProfileKey.

Parameters:

key - is the customer profile key.

Returns:

CustomerProfile object having this CustomerProfileKey.

Throws:

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

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