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["Alejandro J. Cura" <alejandro.cura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Fabian, thanks for working on this.

As I commented earlier, I think this should be part of the
/api/v1/search endpoint, and that those results should be annotated
with "related: true", or "category: related" if they belong to the
recommendations.
Otherwise we would have to do an extra http call to the server, and we
are trying to avoid that to keep the scope responsive.

cheers,
-- 
alecu

[0] "Recommended results" in
https://sites.google.com/a/canonical.com/unity8dash/scopes/store/4-search


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Fabian Gallina
<fabian.gallina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So I moved on the implementation on this feature and have an initial
> working version intended to be pushed in the next few days. This
> update is intended to be a call for questions and suggestions.
>
> As noted at the initial emails of the thread, we decided that,
> for the initial implementation, the list of applications is going
> to be curated by us. This has been implemented in the developer
> portal's admin, by adding a particular section that gives
> curators the ability to associate a list of applications with one
> or more keywords.
>
> When recommendations are pushed to the index, such keywords can then
> be used to return a list of packages matching recommendations with the
> same format than the search endpoint. Here's a sample request that
> would return recommendations matching "whatsapp":
>
>     GET /api/v1/recommendations?keywords=whatsapp
>
> Another feature included in the endpoint is the ability to search
> recommendations for several keywords at once (think of it as an OR
> query). Here's an example that would return all packages linked to
> recommendations that contain "whatsapp", "line" or "viber" as
> keywords:
>
>     GET /api/v1/recommendations?keywords=whatsapp,line,viber
>
> As a final note, support for filtering recommended packages by
> framework, architecture and country is also provided.
>
>     GET
> /api/v1/recommendations?keywords=whatsapp&q=framework:ubuntu-sdk-13.10,architecture:armhf
>
> And that's pretty much the overview of this new endpoint. I'm eager to
> hear for any suggestions and comments you may have about it before it
> hits the trunk.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Fabián