MarketingMessageOfferCandidateService (Broadleaf Promotion Services Offer 1.7.2-GA API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultMarketingMessageOfferCandidateService
```
public interface MarketingMessageOfferCandidateService<P extends Offer>
```
This service is responsible for finding all the active Offers related to a EnhancedLineItem in order to provide the ItemMarketingMessageResolver to retrieve every relevant MarketingMessage.

Author:

Samarth Dhruva (samarthd)

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Deprecated Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Stream<P>`	`getCandidateOffers(ItemMarketingMessageRequest request, com.broadleafcommerce.data.tracking.core.context.ContextInfo contextInfo)`	Deprecated. since 1.6
`boolean`	`isCriteriaMatched(@NonNull EnhancedLineItem item, @NonNull ItemCriteria criteria)`	Determines whether the `EnhancedLineItem` matches the `ItemCriteria`.

- Method Detail
  - getCandidateOffers
```
@Deprecated
Stream<P> getCandidateOffers(ItemMarketingMessageRequest request,
                             @Nullable
                             com.broadleafcommerce.data.tracking.core.context.ContextInfo contextInfo)
```
    Deprecated.
    since 1.6
    
    Finds all the active Offers that match the CustomerContext or are to be automatically considered.
    
    Parameters:
    
    request - The ItemMarketingMessageRequest containing context info for determining the correct messages
    
    contextInfo - context information related to multitenancy. Often used to validate visibility and mutability of persistence operations for a catalog.
    
    Returns:
    
    All the active Offers that match the CustomerContext or are to be automatically considered.
  - isCriteriaMatched
```
boolean isCriteriaMatched(@NonNull
                          @NonNull EnhancedLineItem item,
                          @NonNull
                          @NonNull ItemCriteria criteria)
```
    Determines whether the EnhancedLineItem matches the ItemCriteria. Since there's no order yet, usually, this will only check the ItemCriteriaRule#getRule() rule expression} for each rule and not the number of matches required.
    
    Parameters:
    
    item - Item to determine whether it matches the criteria
    
    criteria - Criteria to match
    
    Returns:
    
    Whether item matches criteria.