Accessing a shop from rules or pipeline blocks

You might want to leverage information provided by a shop entity during the execution of business functionality. In this case, the shop is validated and loaded into the objects collection during the ValidateContextPipeline, which is run on every call into Sitecore XC.

Sitecore XC validates that the storefront passed in as a header is valid and that the requested currency is valid. The shop can then be referenced as a cached object in any pipeline block or by rules in the rules engine.