API for Multi Vendor

Hi

I want to develop a web api for nopcommerce with multi vendor functionality, meaning I should be able to CRUD products on vendor bases.

This functionality is already there in nopcommerce and if possible, I want to reuse it. For that, I wan to understand how multi vendor code/functionality is implemented. Where do I find that code?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Krtya

You can see product controller of admin. That may help you.

Thanks... that has gave me somewhere to start.

It would have been really helpful if there where comments on each method of what it does.

bhaveshkrtya wrote:

In addition with Anik  

Path: Presentation\Nop.Web\Administration\Controllers\ProductController.cs
namespace Nop.Admin.Controllers
 #region Product list / create / edit / delete

Hi

can't find Path: Presentation\Nop.Web\Administration\Controllers\ProductController.cs

There is Nop.Admin.Controllers and I think that's what Anik meant and that's where I am started look at. Not sure if meant to point me some where else. Let me know if that's the case.

Thanks
Bhavesh

bhaveshkrtya wrote:

You are right place!!

Hi

Need little help in getting right direction.

I want to return/get products filtered by Specification Attribute but not sure how to go about searching product with filtered.

There is a method in ProductService called SearchProduct which take "IList<int> filteredSpecs" as one of its argument but how do I construct this parameter. Tried to debug the code but couldn't find out where its getting that array list.


Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Bhavesh

bhaveshkrtya wrote:

See the following code >>

//products
            IList<int> alreadyFilteredSpecOptionIds = model.PagingFilteringContext.SpecificationFilter.GetAlreadyFilteredSpecOptionIds(_webHelper);
            IList<int> filterableSpecificationAttributeOptionIds;
            var products = _productService.SearchProducts(out filterableSpecificationAttributeOptionIds,
                true,
                categoryIds: categoryIds,
                storeId: _storeContext.CurrentStore.Id,
                visibleIndividuallyOnly: true,
                featuredProducts: _catalogSettings.IncludeFeaturedProductsInNormalLists ? null : (bool?)false,
                priceMin: minPriceConverted,
                priceMax: maxPriceConverted,
                filteredSpecs: alreadyFilteredSpecOptionIds,
                orderBy: (ProductSortingEnum)command.OrderBy,
                pageIndex: command.PageNumber - 1,
                pageSize: command.PageSize);

 //specs
            model.PagingFilteringContext.SpecificationFilter.PrepareSpecsFilters(alreadyFilteredSpecOptionIds,
              filterableSpecificationAttributeOptionIds != null ? filterableSpecificationAttributeOptionIds.ToArray() : null,
                _specificationAttributeService,
                _webHelper,
                _workContext,
                _cacheManager);

This example  from         public ActionResult Category(int categoryId, CatalogPagingFilteringModel command)
..path -->Nop.Web\Controllers\CatalogController.cs

Debug this..Hope it will help you to understand your desired.

That is what I know but want to know how SpecificationAttribute is implemented in nopcommerce.

It gets alreadyFilteredSpecOptionIds from url parameter. For example in my case if I select Brand = Dell, it appends spec=3 in url. What I want to know if how it links this 3 to Brand = apple? What if I have Brand = "customText"?

Thanks
Bhavesh