Fault injection

Version: 8.2

Fault injection is the ability to deliberately cause a service to purposely fail, in order to properly test failure in a complex distributed solution. Sitecore Commerce has a single fault injection pattern, which covers the concurrency exception in the persistence of a Commerce Entity. To inject the defined concurrency fault, perform the following tasks:

  • Modify the project.json file for the Sitecore.Commerce.Engine project by adding a reference to the Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.FaultInjection.

  • Add a Header to the request named FaultInjection.

  • Assign a value of ConcurencyFault to the Header you just added.

  • Invoke any API method that persists a Commerce Entity.

At this point, you should have a concurrency error raised.

The following example is a sample result from calling the "AddCartLine" by using Postman, with the fault injection Header inserted:

Headers raw view:

Content-Type:application/json

ShopName:{{ShopName}}

ShopperId:{{ShopperId}}

Language:{{Language}}

Currency:{{Currency}}

Environment:{{Environment}}

IpAddress:{{IpAddress}}

CustomerId:{{CustomerId}}

Roles:{{Roles}}

FaultInjection:ConcurencyFault

Response body:

RequestResponse
"ResponseCode": "Error",
 "Messages": [
 {
  "MessageDate": "2016-09-01T12:12:45.0287079-05:00",
  "Code": "Error",
  "Text": "SQL.UpdateEntity.Fail:Id=Cart01|Try=1|Environment=Entity-CommerceEnvironment-
   AdventureWorks|Message='Concurency error: The Entity version supplied (1) is lower or equal to the current version
   (1).'|Number=50000|Procedure='sp_CommerceEntitiesUpdate'|Line=22",
  "CommerceTermKey": "EntityPersistException"
 }

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