Default Cartridges in Endeca

Cartridge can be defined as the components, that serve specific purpose in the pages or it may be defined as the dynamic content that was loaded in to the Content item.

Cartridges can be defined by both custom and reuse the OOTB one. Oracle commerce guided search provides the  easiest way , so that we can extend the OOTB one  and customize based upon our project need.

What are the Default Methods of the Cartridge handlers?

There may be some default methods available in the handlers , that should be taken in to account while extending it.

public void preprocess

This method is the First method to be called when the scope comes to the Handler from the nucleus assembler factory. It can also be defined as the method where we set the query to be returned from the endeca,  pCartridgeConfig is the handler config which is used for this purpose.Setting up the Rollup key, adding the dynamic filters will also be done in this method.

public <HandlerType> process

This is the Method used for the processing of the results, creating mdex query and firing it and getting the ENEResults, from the results we can able to fetch the Required . We can also manipulate the Results based on the specific condition. This method where the returntype will be return type of the Handler.

Hence the above two method are considered to be the default method to be considered when extending the handlers.

What are the Default Cartridges avalaible in Endeca OOTB

RefinementMenu

HorizontalRecordSpotlight

ResultsList

SearchBox

Other Existing Endeca Cartridges

The DAF.Endeca.Assembler module includes configuration, in the /atg/endeca/assembler/cartridge/handler/ Nucleus folder, for additional existing Oracle Endeca cartridge handlers from the com.endeca.infront.cartridge package. The table below provides a list of these cartridge handlers (note that some of these cartridges handlers are used by Commerce Reference Store and some are not):

Nucleus Component	Cartridge Handler Class
Breadcrumbs	BreadcrumbsHandler
ContentInclude	ContentIncludeHandler
ContentSlot	ContentSlotHandler
DimensionSearchResults	DimensionSearchResultsHandler
NavigationCartridgeHandler	NavigationCartridgeHandler
NavigationContainer	NavigationContainerHandler
RecordBasedNavigationCartridgehandler	RecordBasedNavigationCartridgeHandler
RecordDetail	RecordDetailsHandler
RecordSpotlight	RecordSpotlightHandler
RefinementMenu	RefinementMenuHandler
SearchAdjustments	SearchAdjustmentsHandler

We can also see about the individual handlers in the upcoming tutorials.