Published: February 25, 2024

Understanding Context in Shopware 6 Storefront vs. Schedule Tasks/CLI

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The context contains facts such as language, currency, tax, rules, … it used the most in the data handling (reading / writing)

From storefront controller, you can easily to get the context in Sales Channels Context:

  public function example(Request $request, EntityRepository $entityRepository)
  {
      $salesChannelContext = $request->attributes->get(PlatformRequest::ATTRIBUTE_SALES_CHANNEL_CONTEXT_OBJECT);
      $context = $salesChannelContext->getContext();
      // .. build critertia
      $result = $entityRepository->search($criteria, $context);
      // ...
  }

but it’s not available in Schedule tasks / CLI.

Therefore we can create a default context, the issue of it is that using that method will break some fundamental features of shopware, for example the translation or currency features, where the DAL automatically selects the needed languages or currencies for you.

Context::createDefaultContext();

In case we want handle translation and currency:

use Shopware\Core\System\SalesChannel\Context\SalesChannelContextServiceInterface;

  public function handle(SalesChannelContextServiceInterface $contextService)
  {
      $salesChannelContext = $contextService->get(new SalesChannelContextServiceParameters(
            $salesChannelId,
            Random::getAlphanumericString(32),
            $languageId,
            $currencyId
        ));
      $context = $salesChannelContext->getContext();
      // .. build critertia
      $result = $entityRepository->search($criteria, $context);
      // ...
  }