Basket

The basket (or 'shopping cart') is a collection of BasketItem objects, tied to the django session and as such, expires when the session expires.

Each BasketItem has a basket_id allowing items to be grouped together in a 'basket'.

Fetching the basket

The function longclaw.basket.utils.get_basket_items will return all BasketItem for the current session. This accepts a django request object and uses longclaw.basket.utils.basket_id to fetch the underlying basket_id on which to filter the BasketItem objects.

On the front end, you can use the API endpoint <api_prefix>/basket/ or the django view basket/. You should provide a template for the view title basket.html. basket is also the name of the context variable containing all basket items.

A BasketItem has two fields of importance; quantity and variant. The latter is a foreign key to the ProductVariant model. In a django template, you can iterate over the basket items like so:

    {% for item in basket %}
       {{ item.quantity }}
       {{ item.variant.price }}
       {{ item.variant.stock }}
       {{ item.variant.ref }}
       {{ item.variant.product.title }}
       {{ item.variant.product.description }}
    {% endfor %}

The API JSON response will contain all fields of the ProductVariant and Product:


    {
      quantity,
      variant { 
          price,
          stock,
          ref,
          product {
          title,
          description,
          images,
          ...
          }
      }
    }

Adding and Removing items

Items can be added or removed via the RESTful api:

POST to <api_prefix>/basket/ to add an item and DELETE to <api_prefix>/basket/<variant_id>/ to remove an item

When adding an item, provide the variant_id in the request data. For both endpoints, you can optionally provide the quantity in the request data.

There is currently no django view for addition/deletion of basket items.

Other API Endpoints

basket/:variant_id/count/

get the quantity of a single item in the basket. Requires variant_id in the request data

basket/count/

get total number of items in the basket

All basket items can be deleted using the longclaw.basket.utils.destroy_basket function. When an order is successfully placed, the basket will be automatically destroyed.

Longclaw does not automatically clean up abandoned baskets. This can occur when a session ends with items still in the basket (i.e the customer did not place an order). This allows you to provide checkout recovery, with the caveat that you will need to do your own cleanup of rogue BasketItem objects when required.

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