Broadleaf Catalog Browse Services

This service facilitates requests from a commerce-facing app to catalog related microservice APIs. Its primary goal is to reduce the number of requests necessary to build out browse, search, and product details pages by the caller. Moreover, it bears much of the burden of building out Product and Category hierarchies and hydrating pricing and potentially inventory and other information that requires coordinating requests among various microservices.

Catalog Browse is used through requests to the CatalogBrowseEndpoint. This API exposes the following request mappings: