The Salesforce Commerce Cloud Adapter v2 is now using Shop API OCAPI calls wherever possible, especially for requesting products and categories. The Shop API is much more reliable and performant. Please note, since it is meant to be used to render storefronts, only online items are visible. There are a few parts that are not covered by the Shop API. The Data API is still used to read catalogs and associations between category and products (products as direct children of categories).

This change reflects Salesforce’s recommendation to use Shop API for all end user related activity as it scales better and is more reliable.

Due to this change, the Shop-API OCAPI read permission for /categories/* need to be added to your Salesforce Commerce Cloud instance.

You will find the current required OCAPI permissions in the cartridge workspace documentation. There are also minor cartridge changes beside the OCAPI permissions but they are not mandatory to integrate your SFCC installation with CoreMedia Content Cloud v11 and the new v2 adapter.

On the SFCC adapter configuration the version to be used to access OCAPI can be configured by using the sfcc.ocapi.version configuration property. The default is changed to "v21_9".