Perform tracking customization

Recently I helped one of customers to implement profile tracking and perform recommendation for their B2B solution built on Episerver ecommerce platform. I found an issue during the implementation I would like to share in this post.

Summary

Let’s start with a quick summary of the scenarios I have in the solution before we dive into the customization

For the perform integration, I choose the Server side API integration approach as the solution needs to support both web app and native mobile app. The following scenarios are special in this commerce project

1. Using non default cart (The default cart naming convention is Default-{CustomerID}, which the CustomerID is the unique identifier in the ERP system that stored to the Episerver Organization object.)

Issues

When creates the TrackingData object with TrackingDataFactory class, the following methods require the Cart object, and by default it will load the cart with Default cart name.

• CreateCartTrackingData
• CreateCheckoutTrackingData

    public class TrackingDataFactory
    {
        public virtual CartTrackingData CreateCartTrackingData(HttpContextBase httpContext)
        {
            IOrderGroup currentCart = GetCurrentCart();
            if (currentCart == null)
            {
                return null;
            }
            return new CartTrackingData(GetCartDataItems(currentCart), currentCart.Currency.CurrencyCode, _languageResolver.GetPreferredCulture().Name, GetRequestData(httpContext), GetCommerceUserData(httpContext));
        }

        public virtual CheckoutTrackingData CreateCheckoutTrackingData(HttpContextBase httpContext)
        {
            IOrderGroup currentCart = GetCurrentCart();
            if (currentCart == null)
            {
                return null;
            }
            return new CheckoutTrackingData(GetCartDataItems(currentCart), currentCart.Currency.CurrencyCode, currentCart.GetSubTotal(_orderGroupCalculator).Amount, currentCart.GetShippingSubTotal(_orderGroupCalculator).Amount, currentCart.GetTotal(_orderGroupCalculator).Amount, _languageResolver.GetPreferredCulture().Name, GetRequestData(httpContext), GetCommerceUserData(httpContext));
        }

        protected virtual IOrderGroup GetCurrentCart()
        {
            return _orderRepository.LoadCart<ICart>(GetContactId(), Cart.DefaultName, _currentMarket);
        }
    }

Solution

In order to load the custom cart, we’ll need to replace the default implementation of GetCurrentCart() behavior. Luckily, Episerver has already thought about this needs and provided the capability to override GetCurrentCart() implementation. To fix the issue, I have to create overloaded methods for both CheckoutTrackingData and CartTrackingData to be able to receive the CustomerId in order to customize the cart name. Finally, in the calling method, use the overloaded methods instead of the default one.

    public class CustomTrackingDataFactory : TrackingDataFactory
    {

        public virtual CheckoutTrackingData CreateCheckoutTrackingData(HttpContextBase httpContext, string customerId)
        {
            _customerId = customerId;
            return base.CreateCheckoutTrackingData(httpContext);
        }

        public virtual CartTrackingData CreateCartTrackingData(HttpContextBase httpContext, string customerId)
        {
            _customerId = customerId;
            return base.CreateCartTrackingData(httpContext);
        }

        protected override IOrderGroup GetCurrentCart()
        {
            var cartName = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<ICartService>().GetCustomerCartName(Cart.DefaultCartName, _customerId);
            return _orderRepository.LoadCart<ICart>(GetContactId(), cartName, _currentMarket);
        }
    }

Reference

Recommendations API overview

Happy Coding! 😇