Shipping Rates.

Shipping Rates.

• Greg Thomas - UK

  Hello David,

  ShippingMethodManager  is sealed and has no constructor. What do you recommend

  Thanks,

  Dmitry

  
  
  

• TBing

  David,

  How can you use a class that is sealed and has no constructors or static methods.

  Am i missing something

  
  

• FlashFan

  Joseph Johnson wrote:

  The ShippingMethodManager is available as a property on the OrderManagementContext. The OrderManagementContext is created using a static OrderManagementContext.Create method, which takes a site agent or a service agent.

  While it's not a cookie-cutter factory pattern, I think that's the architecture that best describes instantiating the ShippingMethodManager/OrderManagementContext.

  OrderManagementContext omc = OrderManagementContext.Create(http://localhost/OrdersWebService/OrdersWebService.asmx);
  omc.ShippingMethodManager. //You now have access to your site's shipping method manager.

  
  
  

• smudie

  The ShippingMethodManager a sealed class has no public constructors and no static methods, how do we use it to get the shipping rates

  Is there any other way through the API's to get to the shipping rate.

  Thanks

  
  

• Solitaire

  msdate,

  The ShippingMethodManager is available as a property on the OrderManagementContext. The OrderManagementContext is created using a static OrderManagementContext.Create method, which takes a site agent or a service agent.

  You should not use this context in a runtime web-app, as it's going to load up the site configuration everytime that it's instantiated (which is something that the Best Practices Analyzer recommends against).

  You can also get the shipping methods into a dataset using this method:

  Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.CommerceContext.Current.OrderSystem.GetShippingMethods()

  
  
  

• leodippolito

  msdate,

  Note that GetShippingMethods() returns the shipping rate tables that StepWiseShipping methods use...not the calculated shipping rate. To calculate the shipping rate you will need to perform a shipping rate calculation. You can either write your own non-pipeline-method or execute a pipeline that calculates shipping rates.

  Andy

  
  
  

• osamaT

  We have many ways to get the shipping method, but no way to get to the shipping rate details of a method, meaning the quantity, increment and amount from the shipping rates.

  The costcalculator is useless unless we get the above fields.

  Thanks

  
  

• Igor Solodovnikov

  To get the details of the shipping rate method, you will need to get a ShippingMethod using the ShippingMethodManager. The rate details are stored in ShippingMethod.ShippingRates. As mentioned above doing this in a runtime app is not recommended.

  -David

  
  

• Business Intelligence Analyst

  Are you looking to provide specific pricing based on shopping cart contents or general pricing

  If general you can pull the rates through the ShippingMethodManager class using an OrderManagementContext.

  If you need specific rates you will need to run the pipeline. You could consider creating a specific pipeline to calculate shipping rates.

  Cheers,
  Colin

  
  
  
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