Commerce data providers
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
DataProvider
class. -
Catalog item specific data providers based on the
CatalogDataProviderBase
class.
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 |
CatalogDataProvider |
Derived from |
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. |