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Message #00834
Re: Recommended results with empty searches
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Pawel Stolowski <
pawel.stolowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15.05.2014 12:04, James Tait wrote:
>
> Thanks for picking this up, Fabian!
>
>
> On 15 May 2014 00:33, Alejandro J. Cura <alejandro.cura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Agreed. I hadn't realised this was already being worked on, so I
> haven't spec'd it in the wiki yet, but I think the recommended packages
> should be returned in the normal packages list from /api/v1/search (so in
> the top-level list for a raw JSON response, or in the
> `["_embedded"]["clickindex:package"]` list for HAL+JSON) and tagged
> appropriately.
>
>
Not sure if this helps, but you could also have a custom rel for the
recommended packages, so that you keep
_embedded: clickindex:package for the standard package list and
_embedded: clickindex:recommended for the recommendations
> +1
>
>
>
>
>> > 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
>>
>
> Note that passing the architecture and framework as query parameters is
> deprecated - they should (and will by the scope, IIUC) be passed as
> `X-Ubuntu-Architecture` and `X-Ubuntu-Frameworks` request headers as
> detailed in the wiki[0].
>
>
> +1
>
> Pawel
>
>
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