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Hi Guys,

I have setup an ecommerce site where I incorporate a service to communicate with other ecommerce sites.
The problem I have is with regards to fulfillment groups. I modified my checkout workflow to add an activity that does
all the communication to other e-commerce sites once the user has completed the payment form. My web service returns a shipping group that I need to reflect on Broadleaf. I cannot instantiate new Fulfillment groups. How can I reflect these values in broadleaf?

Thanks

Why can you not instantiate new fulfillment groups? The concrete representation of FulfillmentGroup is FulfillmentGroupImpl. You can either say:



Or go through the fulfillment group service (which is what Broadleaf does but you don't have to):

Thanks for the reply
I have already done that, but i'm not sure if its ok. I mean, I need it to reflect those values even on the broadleaf database.
What I have done so far is to have the fulfillmentGroupService and save it.



If I have done this implementation. Will I need to save the cart order? because theres a new fulfillmentGroup added?
If so, how will I implement it? are there other objects that needs saving too aside order?

Thanks

Most of the entities that are related to Order (like FulfillmentGroups) are marked to cascade operations. For instance, this is the annotation for the list of fulfillment groups:



Because of that cascade = {CascadeType.ALL}, this means you can do this:



And then that fulfillment group will be persisted along with the relationship to the cart. It doesn't really hurt anything if you do the multiple saves (save the fulfillment group, add it to the order, save the order) but it's not really necessary in this case.

Basically, you have to make sure that you are not only saving the entity but also the relationship to the entities. When you add a fulfillment group to an order, you have to save that relationship as well. By the way, since Fulfillment Group has the reverse relationship to Order you can also do this:



Which will actually persist the relationship to the database. However, if you then try to get the list of fulfillment groups for an order and it has already been retrieved, that new fulfillment group won't show up unless you go back to the database to get it.

Anyway, lots of options here it just mainly depends on what makes sense for you. Let us know if we can be of any other help!

Thanks for the info Phillip

I have achieved saving the FulfillmentGroup by adding it into the FulfillmentGroup list by using:


However, I revised my code to remove all of the items in the FulfillmentGroups list and add all new FulfillmentGroup items from the webservice response:

When the "save" method is called, it generates an error:


I know there are a lot of items I am missing here. Please let me know
Thanks