Product URI and product catalogs. Get product from different catalogs?

Posted by rohit on Aug 11, 2006; 5:42am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Product-URI-and-product-catalogs-Get-product-from-different-catalogs-tp141340.html

Hi,

How do we get full product links, to get products from different catalogs.
For eg. a link to a product in a catalog, other than the first catalog, returns a product not found error.
  http://www.mysite.com/ecommerce/control/product/~category_id=10090/~product_id=8178085739

I guess the catalogworker.java file is used to call products. It only works if the catalog ID is included in the URI,

http://www.mysite.com/ecommerce/control/product/~category_id=10090/~product_id=8178085739/~CURRENT_CATALOG_ID=MARKETPLACE


In the catalogworker.java it is mentioned as:

 /**
     * Retrieves the current prodCatalogId.  First it will attempt to find it from a special
     * request parameter or session attribute named CURRENT_CATALOG_ID.  Failing that, it will
     * get the first catalog from the database as specified in getCatalogIdsAvailable().  
     * If this behavior is undesired, give the user a selectable list of catalogs.
     */

I am not sure if this logic is correct. Should it not get catalod ID for the product instead of getting the first catalod ID from the database. I am not aware if there are any other reasons for doing this.

But this also causes the link in the last products viewed box to break, when a browser views product from different catalogs.

Any suggestions on can we get this fixed.

Rohit