Demandware - Get Active and Upcoming Promotions

Scope

We are trying to get a collection of promotions that are either active or upcoming. We want to pre-calculate all our promotional price in advance for our affiliate feeds, so they will get the most updated price without frequent feeds from us.

At the time of writing, we are using the latest DemandWare 16.7 API.

Technical

In the DemandWare API, there is no such thing about getting active and upcoming promotions. Ideally we would like to return a collection combining the following.

PromotionMgr.getActivePromotions();
PromotionMgr.getUpcomingPromotions(1000);

Since these 2 methods return an object PromotionPlan and there is no supporting methods such as promotionPlanA.Add(promotionPlanB), so we will need to write a bit more code to achieve what we want.

function getActiveAndUpcomingPromotions() : Collection
{
 var promos = PromotionMgr.getPromotions().iterator();
 
 var result : ArrayList = new ArrayList();
 var now : Date = new Date();
 
 while (promos.hasNext())
 {
  var promo = promos.next();
  
  if (promo.active 
  || (promo.startDate != null 
    && promo.startDate > now 
    && (promo.endDate == null || promo.endDate > now)))
  {
   result.push(promo);
  }
 }
 
 return result;
}

Notes

• Depending on number of promotions in the system, this can be an expensive operation to loop through all the promotions, so it is recommended to use local caching for the collection.
• Our custom code is better than the original PromotionMgr.getUpcomingPromotions(previewTime : Number) because it was not possible to retrieve ALL future promotions where the previewTime is compulsory.
• Our custom code only return Collection of Promotion, this is not the same as a PromotionPlan.
• Beware of the ArraySize Limit 20,000 in DemandWare. Pushing more than 20,000 active promotions to the array will throw exception.