org.broadleafcommerce.core.web.search
Class SearchFilterUtil

java.lang.Object
  org.broadleafcommerce.core.web.search.SearchFilterUtil

public class SearchFilterUtil
extends Object

SearchFilterUtil exposes a simple static method for filtering out products that do not match the criteria POSTed to a controller by a SearchFilterTag.

Constructor Summary

SearchFilterUtil()

Method Summary

static void

filterProducts(List<Product> products, Map<String,String[]> parameters, String[] allowedParameters) filterProducts iterates over the products for each allowed parameter, filtering out products that do not match the values passed in via the parameters argument.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SearchFilterUtil

public SearchFilterUtil()

Method Detail

filterProducts

public static void filterProducts(List<Product> products,
                                  Map<String,String[]> parameters,
                                  String[] allowedParameters)

filterProducts iterates over the products for each allowed parameter, filtering out products that do not match the values passed in via the parameters argument. There are 2 ways that a product can be filtered out, corresponding to the multiSelect and sliderRange displayTypes on SearchFilterItemTag. For multiSelect items, the method will remove the product if the property specified in allowedParameters's toString() method returns a String equal to one of the Strings in the corresponding String[] in parameters. For sliderRange items, the property on the product must be of type Money. The product will be filtered out if it's property is greater than the Money value parsed out of max-(property name) or smaller than the Money value parsed from min-(property name)

Parameters:

products - the list of products to filter

parameters - the parameters passed to the controller. Generally request.getParameterMap()

allowedParameters - an array of the allowed parameters to filter on