What commands are called during WebSphere Commerce's checkout process / flow?

Question

What are all the controller commands and task commands that get invoked starting from the AddToCart -> ShoppingCart -> CheckoutSignIn -> ShippingInfo -> ShippingMethod -> PaymentMethod -> Order Summary (basically navigating from the Shopping Cart page to the Order Summary page)? This may be a big question...Are there any links that may provide such an answer?

Answer 1

A brief answer here is as follows

(1) to be able to add an item to an cart - OderItemAdd
(2) to be able to update an item in a cart - OrderItemUpdate
(3) to delete an item in a cart - OrderItemDelete
(4) to associate a shipping address to an order - OrderItemUpdate
(5) to associate a billing address to an order - OrderItemUpdate
(6) to lock an order in commerce - OrderPrepare
(7) to submit an order for processing - OrderProcess

Answer 2

Here are the controller commands for each subsystem -

Catalog

AttributeCreateControllerCmd

ProductPricingControllerCmd

CategoryDisplayControllerCmd

ProductDisplayControllerCmd

GetContractUnitPriceCmd

Promotion

PromotionCodeAddRemoveControllerCmd

AddOrderItemWithPromotionCodeOrCouponCmd

CouponAddRemoveControllerCmd

Member

PostOrgEntityAddCmd

PostOrgEntityUpdateCmd

CheckUserInMemberGroupCmd

LogonCmdImpl

DBAuthenticationCmd

LDAPAuthenticationCmd

LogoffCmd

Order

OrderCreateCmd

OrderItemAddCmd

OrderItemDeleteCmd

OrderItemUpdateCmd

OrderProcessCmd

ProcessOrderCmd

PrepareOrderCmd

PreProcessOrderCmd

OrderCancelCmd

OrderDisplayCmd

Answer 3

I think that link will answer to you question. (scroll down under diagram)

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wchelp/v7r0m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.commerce.developer.doc%2Frefs%2Frosordstattran.htm

You can also take a loot on that page : http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wchelp/v7r0m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.commerce.developer.doc%2Frefs%2Frosordtaskcmdscont.htm

Hope you'll find your answer.

Regards, Jimmy.