Accessing Token object outside of Web page

[accust01]

The AbleCommerce API is great, but there does not seem to be a way to utilize it outside of the Web pages of a AbleCommerce-based site. On a site, you can easily the Token object for the current user:

int storeId = Token.Store.StoreId;

But, inside a Web or Windows service, I have not found an approach to obtaining an instance of the int CommerceBuilder.Common.Token class that allows me to interact with the site via the AbleCommerce API. With that said, the best way to work with the system is through direct access to the backend database, correct?

[Logan Rhodehamel]

The only way to make use of the API through a web service would be to make the web service part of the AbleCommerce web application. If the web service runs under the same application context, you will be able to use all features of the API.

Outside of that, yes, you need to work with the database directly.