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Assortment Tenant Configuration

The E-Commerce Framework provides a two level Assortment Tenant system for the Product Index:

  1. Assortment Tenant: The first level of tenants are heavy-weight tenants. They allow multiple shop instances within one system. The shop instances are completely independent from each other and can contain complete different products, index attributes and even use different product index implementations.

  2. Assortment Subtenant: The second level of tenants are light-weight tenants, which exist within a shop instance. Light-weight tenants use the same Product Index with the same attributes as their parent shop, but can contain a subset of the products. So they are meant to be used for implementing different product assortments within one shop.

One system can have multiple tenants (heavy- and light-weight). But too many tenants can have bad effects on the performance of saving products, since all Product Indices need to be updated on every save.

By default the system always uses one heavy-weight tenant (= DefaultMysql), but the default tenant can be disabled.

Configuration of Assortment Tenants

For setting up an Assortment Tenant, following steps are necessary:

  • Implementation of a Tenant Config: The Tenant Config class is the central configuration of an assortment tenant, defines which products are available for the tenant and provides the connection to the used Product Index implementation. It needs to implement Pimcore\Bundle\EcommerceFrameworkBundle\IndexService\Config\IConfig. For detailed information see in-source documentation of the interface. Following implementations are provided by the framework and may be extended:

    • Pimcore\Bundle\EcommerceFrameworkBundle\IndexService\Config\DefaultMysql: Provides a simple mysql implementation of the product index.
    • Pimcore\Bundle\EcommerceFrameworkBundle\IndexService\ConfigOptimizedMysql: Provides an optimized mysql implementation of the product index.
    • Pimcore\Bundle\EcommerceFrameworkBundle\IndexService\Config\ElasticSearch: Provides a default elastic search implementation of the product index.
    • Pimcore\Bundle\EcommerceFrameworkBundle\IndexService\Config\DefaultFactFinder: Provides a default fact finder implementation of the product index.
    • Pimcore\Bundle\EcommerceFrameworkBundle\IndexService\Config\DefaultFindologic: Provides a default findologic implementation of the product index.
  • Configuring Assortment Tenants within configuration: Each tenant has to be configured within the index_service configuration by defining the tenant config class and index attributes. Depending on the Product Index implementation, additional configuration may be necessary.

Setting current Assortment Tenant for Frontend

The E-Commerce Framework Environment provides following methods to set the current Assortment Tenant when working with Product Lists in Code:

<?php
    /**
     * sets current assortment tenant which is used for indexing and product lists
     *
     * @param $tenant string
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function setCurrentAssortmentTenant($tenant);

    /**
     * gets current assortment tenant which is used for indexing and product lists
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getCurrentAssortmentTenant();

    /**
     * sets current assortment sub tenant which is used for indexing and product lists
     *
     * @param $subTenant string
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function setCurrentAssortmentSubTenant($subTenant);

    /**
     * gets current assortment sub tenant which is used for indexing and product lists
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getCurrentAssortmentSubTenant();

The current Assortment Tenant have to be set in the application controllers, e.g. after the login of a specific customer. The Index Service provides the corresponding Product List implementation based on the current tenant.

Example:
<?php
  
  $factory = \Pimcore\Bundle\EcommerceFrameworkBundle\Factory::getInstance();
  
  //setting assortment tenant
  $environment = $factory->getEnvironment();
  $environment->setCurrentAssortmentTenant("elasticsearch");
  
  //getting suitable product list
  $productlist = $factory->getIndexService()->getProductListForCurrentTenant();
  //doing stuff with product list

Implementing an Assortment Subtenant

Subtenants are light-weight tenants, which share the same Product Index with the same attributes as their parent assortment tenant. The mapping which product is assigned to with subtenant is done with an additional mapping table. The necessary joins and conditions are implemented within additional methods within Pimcore\Bundle\EcommerceFrameworkBundle\IndexService\Config\IMysqlConfig:

    /**
     * return table name of product index tenant relations for subtenants
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getTenantRelationTablename();

    /**
     * return join statement in case of subtenants
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getJoins();

    /**
     * returns additional condition in case of subtenants
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getCondition();

In order to populate the additional mapping data, also following methods have to be implemented:

    /**
     * in case of subtenants returns a data structure containing all sub tenants
     *
     * @param IIndexable $object
     * @param null $subObjectId
     *
     * @return mixed $subTenantData
     */
    public function prepareSubTenantEntries(IIndexable $object, $subObjectId = null);

    /**
     * populates index for tenant relations based on given data
     *
     * @param mixed $objectId
     * @param mixed $subTenantData
     * @param mixed $subObjectId
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function updateSubTenantEntries($objectId, $subTenantData, $subObjectId = null);

For an complete example have a look at the sample implementation.

Note: This is currently only implemented for mysql based Product Index Implementations.