Commerce data providers
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Sitecore Experience Commerce 9.x makes use of predefined item templates to represent catalogs, categories, products and product variants. These templates are arranged in a hierarchy to enable inheritance. Template inheritance follows Helix guidelines.
Data providers dynamically generate children types based on the parent item. The CatalogDataProvider unifies and handles all entity types (catalogs, categories, and products). There are two data providers:
- Data providers called directly by Sitecore based on the base
DataProviderclass. - Catalog item specific data providers based on the
CatalogDataProviderBaseclass.
The following table details the supported data providers.
| Provider | Description |
|---|---|
| DataProvider | Provides the base functionality that is common to all data providers. |
| ReadOnlyDataProvider | Derived from CatalogDataProviderBase. This provider allows only read-only access to the catalog content with the exception of the SitecoreID and SitecoreSettings properties. All write operations are ignored. This catalog data provider assigned to both databases (Master and Web). |
| CatalogDataProvider | Derived from ReadOnlyDataProvider. This provider derives/inherits from the ReadOnlyCatalogDataProvider and provides all of the create, update, and delete functionality. This catalog data provider is assigned to the Sitecore Master database. |
| WorkflowDataProvider | Generates the items for the workflows that have been configured in the Commerce Engine. Handles workflow actions such as promoting items to the next state. |
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