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Get ALL commerce catalogs
This is a wild guess but I had a smililar problem a while back and in my case it was due to permissions for the user is being used to run the scheduled job.
Try setting a specific user in the code, preferably an admin account, and see if this solves the issue.
May 05, 2016 8:16
I actually went down that path too based on something a co-worker told me based on how the scheduled tasks run, but unfortunately that was not the issue, still do not get the one catalog back.
May 05, 2016 15:50
Still was unable to get anything to get it back correctly, so I ended up coding this out to meet my needs:
var languageBranch = _languageBranch.Service.ListEnabled();
var catalogList = new List<CatalogContent>();
foreach (var lang in languageBranch) {
var catList = _contentLoader.Service.GetChildren<CatalogContent>(_referenceConverter.Service.GetRootLink(), new LanguageSelector(lang.LanguageID))
foreach(var catTemp in catList)
{
if (!catalogList.Exists(x => x.CatalogId == catTemp.CatalogId))
{
catalogList.Add(catTemp);
}
}
}
This meets my needs, but it still doesn't make sense as to why my original code wasn't bringing back the one catalog that didn't have en-us as an available language.
May 05, 2016 22:48
What is set as the master language?
For making the content loader fall back to a specific language you could do
var fallbackCulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");
_contentLoader.Service.GetChildren<CatalogContent>(_referenceConverter.Service.GetRootLink(), new LoaderOptions() { LanguageLoaderOption.FallbackWithMaster(fallbackCulture) });
Or always fetch from master language
_contentLoader.Service.GetChildren<CatalogContent>(_referenceConverter.Service.GetRootLink(), new LoaderOptions() { LanguageLoaderOption.MasterLanguage() });
May 16, 2016 15:19
I guess really the net issue I was trying to solve is how come this:
var catalogs = _contentLoader.GetChildren<CatalogContent>(_referenceConverter.GetRootLink());
Doesn't correctly return me all catalogs as it should.
That being said, in response to the previouse comment, our master language is en-us, so setting the master language would still not get us back catalog C with languages of en-ca and fr-ca.
May 16, 2016 16:24
I was haveing the same issue.
Instead of using IContentLoader use IContentRepository.
Not working
var catalogs1 = _contentLoader.GetChildren<CatalogContent>(catalogRootLink);
Working
var catalogs = _contentRepository.GetChildren<CatalogContent>(catalogRootLink);
Apr 18, 2018 21:59
@David I doubt that was the problem. IContentRepository actually extends IContentLoader.
Make sure you don't make the same mistake I did: https://vimvq1987.com/beware-icontentloader-getchildren/
Apr 18, 2018 22:10
@Quan I can't speak to the problem anymore as my post was from almost 2-years ago. :)
Apr 18, 2018 22:13
I know, I was replying to David Fewless :)
As always, it might benefit the future visitors
Apr 18, 2018 22:19
Can anyone tell me how to retrieve all catalogs out of commerce? I'm not sure if I am missing something simple or if this is a bug. I am creating a scheduled task where I need to loop through our catalogs and perform some tasks on them. I thought the following line of code would work, but discovered that one of our catalogs is not coming back in the results.
var catalogs = _contentLoader.GetChildren(_referenceConverter.GetRootLink());
We have catalog A with languages of en-us, en-ca, and fr-ca.
We have catalog B with language of en-us
We have catalog C with languages of en-ca and fr-ca
When I call the code above, I only get catalog A and B back. So finally, I went to catalog C and added en-us as an available language to see if I got it back in the call. When I run the code, I in fact will get it back in the results. I then removed en-us as an available language for C and made the call again, and C is not in the results.
Worst case scenario, I loop through the ILanguageBranchRepository.ListEnabled() and add each distinct catalog I find to my own list to loop through, but that just seems dumb that I would have to go down that path.
Thoughts?