Broadleaf Pricing Services

Clients will provide a PriceContext as a header parameter to the priceInfo call. The PriceContext contains locale, target currency, and other properties that are used to restrict which price lists should be included including customer segments.

Clients will also provide a PriceInfoContext which includes the items to be priced as a list of PriceableTarget objects. When using modifier rules, the PriceableTarget can includes cost, base price information, and other attributes used to qualify for the price modifer and as a base value for the operator to modify.

The PriceInfoService is used to build the PriceInfo results. It first makes calls to the PriceListService and PriceListFilterService to determines the eligible price lists. Once eligible price lists are found, the service calculates the item prices based on the PriceModifier and chooses the best prices to return for each applicable price list type (Standard, Sale, and Contract).

The PriceListService provides the methods to read and update price lists. In the context of the priceInfo endpoint, this service delegates to the PriceInfoFilterService after calling its modifyPriceContext method which can be a useful place to override to introduce custom price context logic.

A solution may have thousands of price lists. The PriceInfoFilterService narrows the list to process using the context information. For implementations with large numbers of price lists, this class is a good target for optimizing the price list selection queries as most solutions can introduce a more efficient and cacheable query that meets the specific application requirements.

Once the Price Lists are determined, a call can be made to the PriceDataService to retrieve the details for the items (SKUs) being priced