Promotion APIs for A/B Testing

You can use the Salesforce B2C Commerce APIs for when a promotion is assigned to an A/B test and not to a campaign. These classes return a placeholder campaign, representing A/B tests, for API methods that return or process a campaign instance, when an A/B test (not a campaign) is in effect.

• dw.campaign.Campaign
• dw.campaign.CampaignMgr
• dw.campaign.Promotion
• dw.campaign.PromotionMgr
  Note: Returned PromotionPlans don't contain multiple Promotion objects with the same ID.
• dw.campaign.PriceAdjustment
  Note: A/B tests are just another case of a promotion without an associated campaign.

The method Promotion.getCampaign.getCustom isn’t accessible when a promotion is assigned to an A/B test and not a campaign. The method returns an empty map because this object isn't derived from an extensible object. The method promotions.campaign is a dummy object, which is an instance of dw/object/ExtensibleObject.java. When the method promotions.campaign.custom is called, the getCustom method on dw/object/ExtensibleObject.java is called and returns the “ExtensibleObjectAttributes id“ value. When a promotion or price adjustment is the result of an A/B test, the method Promotion.getCampaign.getID() always returns AB Testing.

When a promotion or price adjustment is the result of an A/B test, these methods return the following: