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hidden-lg"><div id="page-title"><h1>Quick Start - E-Commerce Recommendation Engine Template</h1></div></div><div id="table-of-content-wrapper"><h5>On this page</h5><aside id="table-of-contents"><ul> <li> <a href="#overview">Overview</a> </li> <li> <a href="#usage">Usage</a> </li> <li> <a href="#1-install-and-run-predictionio">1. Install and Run PredictionIO</a> </li> <li> <a href="#2-create-a-new-engine-from-an-engine-template">2. Create a new Engine from an Engine Template</a> </li> <li> <a href="#3-generate-an-app-id-and-access-key">3. Generate an App ID and Access Key</a> </li> <li> <a href="#4-collecting-data">4. Collecting Data</a> </li> <li> <a href="#5-deploy-the-engine-as-a-service">5. Deploy the Engine as a Service</a> </li> <li> <a href="#6-use-the-engine">6. Use the Engine</a> </li> <li> <a href="#setting-constraint-unavailableitems">Setting constraint "unavailableItems"</a> </li> <li> <a href="#advanced-query">Advanced Query</a> </li> </ul> </aside><hr/><a id="edit-page-link" href="https://github.com/apache/incubator-predictionio/tree/livedoc/docs/manual/source/templates/ecommercerecommendation/quickstart.html.md.erb"><img src="/images/icons/edit-pencil-d6c1bb3d.png"/>Edit this page</a></div><div class="content-header hidden-sm hidden-xs"><div id="page-title"><h1>Quick Start - E-Commerce Recommendation Engine Template</h1></div></div><div class="content"><h2 id='overview' class='header-anchors'>Overview</h2><p>This engine template provides personalized recommendation for e-commerce applications with the following features by default:</p> <ul> <li>Exclude out-of-stock items</li> <li>Provide recommendation to new users who sign up after the model is trained</li> <li>Recommend unseen items only (configurable)</li> <li>Recommend popular items if no information about the user is available (added in template version v0.4.0)</li> </ul> <div class="alert-message warning"><p>This template requires PredictionIO version &gt;= 0.9.0</p></div><h2 id='usage' class='header-anchors'>Usage</h2><h3 id='event-data-requirements' class='header-anchors'>Event Data Requirements</h3><p>By default, this template takes the following data from Event Server:</p> <ul> <li>Users&#39; <em>view</em> events</li> <li>Users&#39; <em>buy</em> events</li> <li>Items&#39; with <em>categories</em> properties</li> <li>Constraint <em>unavailableItems</em> set events</li> </ul> <div class="alert-message info"><p>This template can easily be customized to consider more user events such as <em>rate</em> and <em>like</em>.</p></div><p>The <em>view</em> events are used as Training Data to train the model. The algorithm has a parameter <em>unseenOnly</em>; when this parameter is set to true, the engine would recommend unseen items only. You can specify a list of events which are considered as <em>seen</em> events with the algorithm parameter <em>seenEvents</em>. The default values are <em>view</em> and <em>buy</em> events, which means that the engine by default recommends un-viewed and un-bought items only. You can also define your own events which are considered as <em>seen</em>.</p><p>The constraint <em>unavailableItems</em> set events are used to exclude a list of unaviable items (such as out of stock) for all users in real time.</p><h3 id='input-query' class='header-anchors'>Input Query</h3> <ul> <li>UserID</li> <li>Num of items to be recommended</li> <li>List of white-listed item categories (optional)</li> <li>List of white-listed ItemIds (optional)</li> <li>List of black-listed ItemIds (optional)</li> </ul> <p>The template also supports black-list and whitelist. If a whitelist is provided, the engine will include only those products in the recommendation. Likewise, if a blacklist is provided, the engine will exclude those products in the recommendation.</p><h3 id='output-predictedresult' class='header-anchors'>Output PredictedResult</h3> <ul> <li>A ranked list of recommended itemIDs</li> </ul> <h2 id='1.-install-and-run-predictionio' class='header-anchors'>1. Install and Run PredictionIO</h2><p>First you need to <a href="/install">install PredictionIO 0.9.6</a> (if you haven&#39;t done it).</p><p>Let&#39;s say you have installed PredictionIO at <code>/home/yourname/PredictionIO/</code>. For convenience, add PredictionIO&#39;s binary command path to your <code>PATH</code>, i.e. <code>/home/yourname/PredictionIO/bin</code>:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span><span class="nv">PATH</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nv">$PATH</span>:/home/yourname/PredictionIO/bin; <span class="nb">export </span>PATH
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="alert-message note"><p>If you launched <strong>PredictionIO AWS instance</strong>, the path is located at <code>/opt/PredictionIO/bin</code>.</p></div><p>Once you have completed the installation process, please make sure all the components (PredictionIO Event Server, Elasticsearch, and HBase) are up and running.</p><div class="alert-message note"><p>If you launched <strong>PredictionIO AWS instance</strong>, you can skip <code>pio-start-all</code>. All components should have been started automatically.</p></div><p>If you are using PostgreSQL or MySQL, run the following to start PredictionIO Event Server:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio eventserver &amp;
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>If instead you are running HBase and Elasticsearch, run the following to start all PredictionIO Event Server, HBase, and Elasticsearch:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio-start-all
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>You can check the status by running:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio status
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>If everything is OK, you should see the following outputs:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
2
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4</pre></td><td class="code"><pre>...

<span class="o">(</span>sleeping 5 seconds <span class="k">for </span>all messages to show up...<span class="o">)</span>
Your system is all ready to go.
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="alert-message note"><p>To further troubleshoot, please see <a href="/resources/faq/#using-predictionio">FAQ - Using PredictionIO</a>.</p></div> <p><a href="#"></a></p> <h2 id='2.-create-a-new-engine-from-an-engine-template' class='header-anchors'>2. Create a new Engine from an Engine Template</h2><p>Now let&#39;s create a new engine called <em>MyECommerceRecommendation</em> by downloading the E-Commerce Recommendation Engine Template. Go to a directory where you want to put your engine and run the following:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
2</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio template get PredictionIO/template-scala-parallel-ecommercerecommendation MyECommerceRecommendation
<span class="gp">$ </span><span class="nb">cd </span>MyECommerceRecommendation
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>A new directory <em>MyECommerceRecommendation</em> is created, where you can find the downloaded engine template.</p> <p><a href="#"></a></p> <h2 id='3.-generate-an-app-id-and-access-key' class='header-anchors'>3. Generate an App ID and Access Key</h2><p>You will need to create a new App in PredictionIO to store all the data of your app. The data collected will be used for machine learning modeling.</p><p>Let&#39;s assume you want to use this engine in an application named &quot;MyApp1&quot;. Run the following to create a new app &quot;MyApp1&quot;:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio app new MyApp1
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>You should find the following in the console output:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
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6</pre></td><td class="code"><pre>...
<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span> Initialized Event Store <span class="k">for </span>this app ID: 1.
<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span> Created new app:
<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span>       Name: MyApp1
<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span>         ID: 1
<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span> Access Key: 3mZWDzci2D5YsqAnqNnXH9SB6Rg3dsTBs8iHkK6X2i54IQsIZI1eEeQQyMfs7b3F
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>Note that <em>App ID</em><em>, **Access Key</em>* are created for this App &quot;MyApp1&quot;. You will need the <strong>Access Key</strong> when you collect data with EventServer for this App.</p><p>You can list all of the apps created its corresponding ID and Access Key by running the following command:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio app list
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>You should see a list of apps created. For example:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
2
3
4</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span>                 Name |   ID |                                                       Access Key | Allowed Event<span class="o">(</span>s<span class="o">)</span>
<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span>               MyApp1 |    1 | 3mZWDzci2D5YsqAnqNnXH9SB6Rg3dsTBs8iHkK6X2i54IQsIZI1eEeQQyMfs7b3F | <span class="o">(</span>all<span class="o">)</span>
<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span>               MyApp2 |    2 | io5lz6Eg4m3Xe4JZTBFE13GMAf1dhFl6ZteuJfrO84XpdOz9wRCrDU44EUaYuXq5 | <span class="o">(</span>all<span class="o">)</span>
<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span> Finished listing 2 app<span class="o">(</span>s<span class="o">)</span>.
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p><a href="#"></a></p> <h2 id='4.-collecting-data' class='header-anchors'>4. Collecting Data</h2><p>Next, let&#39;s collect training data for this Engine. By default, the E-Commerce Recommendation Engine Template supports 2 types of entities and 2 events: <strong>user</strong> and <strong>item</strong>; events <strong>view</strong> and <strong>buy</strong>. An item has the <strong>categories</strong> property, which is a list of category names (String). A user can view and buy an item. The specical <strong>constraint</strong> entiy with entityId <strong>unavailableItems</strong> defines a list of unavailable items and is taken into account in realtime during serving.</p><p>In summary, this template requires &#39;$set&#39; user event, &#39;$set&#39; item event, user-view-item events, user-buy-item event and &#39;$set&#39; constraint event.</p><div class="alert-message info"><p>This template can easily be customized to consider other user-to-item events.</p></div><p>You can send these events to PredictionIO Event Server in real-time easily by making a HTTP request or through the provided SDK. Please see <a href="/appintegration/">App Integration Overview</a> for more details how to integrate your app with SDK.</p><p>Let&#39;s try sending events to EventServer with the following <code>curl</code> commands (The corresponding SDK code is showed in other tabs).</p><p>Replace <code>&lt;ACCCESS_KEY&gt;</code> by the Access Key generated in above steps. Note that <code>localhost:7070</code> is the default URL of the Event Server.</p><p>For convenience, set your access key to the shell variable, run:</p><p><code>$ ACCESS_KEY=&lt;ACCESS_KEY&gt;</code></p> <p><a href="#"></a></p> <p>For example, when a new user with id &quot;u0&quot; is created in your app on time <code>2014-11-02T09:39:45.618-08:00</code> (current time will be used if eventTime is not specified), you can send a <code>$set</code> event for this user. To send this event, run the following <code>curl</code> command:</p><div class="tabs"> <ul class="control"> <li data-lang="json"><a href="#tab-1bab9bb6-ba75-449f-9792-8415752777cd">REST API</a></li> <li data-lang="python"><a href="#tab-9acc7351-dc98-4e1f-8562-c2b800a724c1">Python SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="php"><a href="#tab-e404faba-025f-4bcf-8d13-57455eb17f96">PHP SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="ruby"><a href="#tab-1c953526-e1ee-416a-851d-e843f1221c23">Ruby SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="java"><a href="#tab-841fa5d7-4795-469c-9408-5727bf629f6d">Java SDK</a></li> </ul> <div data-tab="REST API" data-lang="json" id="tab-1bab9bb6-ba75-449f-9792-8415752777cd"> <div class="highlight shell"> <table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr> <td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
2
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8</pre></td> <td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>curl -i -X POST http://localhost:7070/events.json?accessKey<span class="o">=</span><span class="nv">$ACCESS_KEY</span> <span class="se">\</span>
-H <span class="s2">"Content-Type: application/json"</span> <span class="se">\</span>
-d <span class="s1">'{
  "event" : "$set",
  "entityType" : "user"
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  "eventTime" : "2014-11-02T09:39:45.618-08:00"
}'</span>
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<span class="n">client</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">predictionio</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">EventClient</span><span class="p">(</span>
  <span class="n">access_key</span><span class="o">=&lt;</span><span class="n">ACCESS</span> <span class="n">KEY</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">url</span><span class="o">=&lt;</span><span class="n">URL</span> <span class="n">OF</span> <span class="n">EVENTSERVER</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">threads</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">qsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">500</span>
<span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c"># Create a new user</span>

<span class="n">client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create_event</span><span class="p">(</span>
  <span class="n">event</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"$set"</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">entity_type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"user"</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">entity_id</span><span class="o">=&lt;</span><span class="n">USER_ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="k">require_once</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"vendor/autoload.php"</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="k">use</span> <span class="nx">predictionio\EventClient</span><span class="p">;</span>

<span class="nv">$client</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="nx">EventClient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">ACCESS</span> <span class="nx">KEY</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">URL</span> <span class="nx">OF</span> <span class="nx">EVENTSERVER</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">);</span>

<span class="c1">// Create a new user
</span><span class="nv">$client</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">createEvent</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span>
  <span class="s1">'event'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'$set'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'entityType'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'user'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'entityId'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">USER</span> <span class="nx">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
<span class="p">));</span>

<span class="c1">// Create a new item or set existing item's categories
</span><span class="nv">$client</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">createEvent</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span>
  <span class="s1">'event'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'$set'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'entityType'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'item'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'entityId'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">ITEM</span> <span class="nx">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
  <span class="s1">'properties'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'categories'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'&lt;CATEGORY_1&gt;'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'&lt;CATEGORY_2&gt;'</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="p">));</span>
<span class="cp">?&gt;</span>
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<span class="n">client</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">PredictionIO</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="no">EventClient</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nf">new</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="no">ACCESS</span> <span class="no">KEY</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="no">URL</span> <span class="no">OF</span> <span class="no">EVENTSERVER</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c1"># Create a new user</span>
<span class="n">client</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nf">create_event</span><span class="p">(</span>
  <span class="s1">'$set'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'user'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="no">USER</span> <span class="no">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">io.prediction.EventClient</span><span class="o">;</span>

<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList</span><span class="o">;</span>

<span class="n">EventClient</span> <span class="n">client</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">EventClient</span><span class="o">(&lt;</span><span class="n">ACCESS</span> <span class="n">KEY</span><span class="o">&gt;,</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">URL</span> <span class="n">OF</span> <span class="n">EVENTSERVER</span><span class="o">&gt;);</span>

<span class="c1">// Create a new user</span>
<span class="n">Event</span> <span class="n">userEvent</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">Event</span><span class="o">()</span>
  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">event</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"$set"</span><span class="o">)</span>
  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityType</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"user"</span><span class="o">)</span>
  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityId</span><span class="o">(&lt;</span><span class="n">USER_ID</span><span class="o">&gt;);</span>
<span class="n">client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">createEvent</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">userEvent</span><span class="o">);</span>
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-H <span class="s2">"Content-Type: application/json"</span> <span class="se">\</span>
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  "event" : "$set",
  "entityType" : "item"
  "entityId" : "i0",
  "properties" : {
    "categories" : ["c1", "c2"]
  }
  "eventTime" : "2014-11-02T09:39:45.618-08:00"
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<span class="n">client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create_event</span><span class="p">(</span>
  <span class="n">event</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"$set"</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">entity_type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"item"</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">entity_id</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">item_id</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">properties</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="s">"categories"</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="s">"&lt;CATEGORY_1&gt;"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">"&lt;CATEGORY_2&gt;"</span><span class="p">]</span>
  <span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="c1">// Create a new item or set existing item's categories
</span><span class="nv">$client</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">createEvent</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span>
  <span class="s1">'event'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'$set'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'entityType'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'item'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'entityId'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">ITEM</span> <span class="nx">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
  <span class="s1">'properties'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'categories'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'&lt;CATEGORY_1&gt;'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'&lt;CATEGORY_2&gt;'</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="p">));</span>
<span class="cp">?&gt;</span>
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  <span class="s1">'$set'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'item'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="no">ITEM</span> <span class="no">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="s1">'properties'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="p">{</span> <span class="s1">'categories'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'&lt;CATEGORY_1&gt;'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'&lt;CATEGORY_2&gt;'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">}</span>
  <span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">)</span>

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<span class="n">Event</span> <span class="n">itemEvent</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">Event</span><span class="o">()</span>
  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">event</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"$set"</span><span class="o">)</span>
  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityType</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"item"</span><span class="o">)</span>
  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityId</span><span class="o">(&lt;</span><span class="n">ITEM_ID</span><span class="o">&gt;)</span>
  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">property</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"categories"</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="n">ImmutableList</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">of</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"&lt;CATEGORY_1&gt;"</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="s">"&lt;CATEGORY_2&gt;"</span><span class="o">));</span>
<span class="n">client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">createEvent</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">itemEvent</span><span class="o">)</span>
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  "event" : "view",
  "entityType" : "user"
  "entityId" : "u0",
  "targetEntityType" : "item",
  "targetEntityId" : "i0",
  "eventTime" : "2014-11-10T12:34:56.123-08:00"
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<span class="n">client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create_event</span><span class="p">(</span>
  <span class="n">event</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"view"</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">entity_type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"user"</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">entity_id</span><span class="o">=&lt;</span><span class="n">USER</span> <span class="n">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">target_entity_type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"item"</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">target_entity_id</span><span class="o">=&lt;</span><span class="n">ITEM</span> <span class="n">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="c1">// A user views an item
</span><span class="nv">$client</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">createEvent</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span>
   <span class="s1">'event'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'view'</span><span class="p">,</span>
   <span class="s1">'entityType'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'user'</span><span class="p">,</span>
   <span class="s1">'entityId'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">USER</span> <span class="nx">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">,</span>
   <span class="s1">'targetEntityType'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'item'</span><span class="p">,</span>
   <span class="s1">'targetEntityId'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">ITEM</span> <span class="nx">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
<span class="p">));</span>
<span class="cp">?&gt;</span>
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<span class="n">client</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nf">create_event</span><span class="p">(</span>
  <span class="s1">'view'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'user'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="no">USER</span> <span class="no">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="s1">'targetEntityType'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'item'</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="s1">'targetEntityId'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="no">ITEM</span> <span class="no">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
  <span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">)</span>

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<span class="n">Event</span> <span class="n">viewEvent</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">Event</span><span class="o">()</span>
    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">event</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"view"</span><span class="o">)</span>
    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityType</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"user"</span><span class="o">)</span>
    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityId</span><span class="o">(&lt;</span><span class="n">USER_ID</span><span class="o">&gt;)</span>
    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">targetEntityType</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"item"</span><span class="o">)</span>
    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">targetEntityId</span><span class="o">(&lt;</span><span class="n">ITEM_ID</span><span class="o">&gt;);</span>
<span class="n">client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">createEvent</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">viewEvent</span><span class="o">);</span>
</pre></td> </tr></tbody></table> </div> </div> </div> <p>When the user &quot;u0&quot; buy item &quot;i0&quot; on time <code>2014-11-10T13:00:00.123-08:00</code> (current time will be used if eventTime is not specified), you can send a view event. Run the following <code>curl</code> command:</p><div class="tabs"> <ul class="control"> <li data-lang="json"><a href="#tab-1eb2e45f-93c0-4e1e-a3a3-0e7808d7ef76">REST API</a></li> <li data-lang="python"><a href="#tab-87a3dbb9-ed0f-448e-a265-d106e85228b8">Python SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="php"><a href="#tab-b592b5ef-9b1c-423b-9157-e11c91c1a225">PHP SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="ruby"><a href="#tab-6cde83c4-1d83-4c13-bfac-79c63fb96986">Ruby SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="java"><a href="#tab-9988a4e2-21e7-4221-9b1c-268da247e958">Java SDK</a></li> </ul> <div data-tab="REST API" data-lang="json" id="tab-1eb2e45f-93c0-4e1e-a3a3-0e7808d7ef76"> <div class="highlight shell"> <table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr> <td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
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-H <span class="s2">"Content-Type: application/json"</span> <span class="se">\</span>
-d <span class="s1">'{
  "event" : "buy",
  "entityType" : "user"
  "entityId" : "u0",
  "targetEntityType" : "item",
  "targetEntityId" : "i0",
  "eventTime" : "2014-11-10T13:00:00.123-08:00"
}'</span>
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<span class="n">client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create_event</span><span class="p">(</span>
  <span class="n">event</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"buy"</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">entity_type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"user"</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">entity_id</span><span class="o">=&lt;</span><span class="n">USER</span> <span class="n">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">target_entity_type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"item"</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">target_entity_id</span><span class="o">=&lt;</span><span class="n">ITEM</span> <span class="n">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="c1">// A user buys an item
</span><span class="nv">$client</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">createEvent</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span>
   <span class="s1">'event'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'buy'</span><span class="p">,</span>
   <span class="s1">'entityType'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'user'</span><span class="p">,</span>
   <span class="s1">'entityId'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">USER</span> <span class="nx">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">,</span>
   <span class="s1">'targetEntityType'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'item'</span><span class="p">,</span>
   <span class="s1">'targetEntityId'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">ITEM</span> <span class="nx">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
<span class="p">));</span>
<span class="cp">?&gt;</span>
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<span class="n">client</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nf">create_event</span><span class="p">(</span>
  <span class="s1">'buy'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'user'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="no">USER</span> <span class="no">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="s1">'targetEntityType'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'item'</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="s1">'targetEntityId'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="no">ITEM</span> <span class="no">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
  <span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="n">Event</span> <span class="n">viewEvent</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">Event</span><span class="o">()</span>
    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">event</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"buy"</span><span class="o">)</span>
    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityType</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"user"</span><span class="o">)</span>
    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityId</span><span class="o">(&lt;</span><span class="n">USER_ID</span><span class="o">&gt;)</span>
    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">targetEntityType</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"item"</span><span class="o">)</span>
    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">targetEntityId</span><span class="o">(&lt;</span><span class="n">ITEM_ID</span><span class="o">&gt;);</span>
<span class="n">client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">createEvent</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">viewEvent</span><span class="o">);</span>
</pre></td> </tr></tbody></table> </div> </div> </div> <p><h3 id='query-event-server' class='header-anchors'>Query Event Server</h3><p>Now let&#39;s query the EventServer and see if these events are imported successfully.</p><p>Go to following URL with your browser:</p><p><code><a href="http://localhost:7070/events.json?accessKey=&amp;lt;YOUR_ACCESS_KEY">http://localhost:7070/events.json?accessKey=&amp;lt;YOUR_ACCESS_KEY</a>&gt;</code></p><p>or run the following command in terminal:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>curl -i -X GET <span class="s2">&quot;<a href="http://localhost:7070/events.json?accessKey=">http://localhost:7070/events.json?accessKey=</a></span><span class="nv">$ACCESS_KEY</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span>
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="alert-message note"><p>Note that you should quote the entire URL by using single or double quotes when you run the <code>curl</code> command.</p></div><p>It should return the imported events in JSON format. You can refer to <a href="/datacollection/eventapi/#debugging-recipes">Event Server Debugging Recipes</a> for more different ways to query Event Server.</p></p><h3 id='import-more-sample-data' class='header-anchors'>Import More Sample Data</h3><p>This engine requires more data in order to train a useful model. Instead of sending more events one by one in real time, for quickstart demonstration purpose, we are going to use a script to import more events in batch.</p> <p>A Python import script <code>import_eventserver.py</code> is provided to import sample data. It imports 10 users (with user ID &quot;u1&quot; to &quot;u10&quot;) and 50 items (with item ID &quot;i1&quot; to &quot;i50&quot;) with some random assigned categories ( with categories &quot;c1&quot; to &quot;c6&quot;). Each user then randomly view 10 items.</p><p>First, you will need to install Python SDK in order to run the sample data import script. To install Python SDK, run:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pip install predictionio
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>or</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>easy_install predictionio
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="alert-message note"><p>You may need <code>sudo</code> access if you have permission issue. (ie. <code>sudo pip install predictionio</code>)</p></div> <p><a href="#"></a></p> <p>Make sure you are under the <code>MyECommerceRecommendation</code> directory. Execute the following to import the data (Replace the value of access_key parameter with your <strong>Access Key</strong>):</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
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<span class="gp">$ </span>python data/import_eventserver.py --access_key 3mZWDzci2D5YsqAnqNnXH9SB6Rg3dsTBs8iHkK6X2i54IQsIZI1eEeQQyMfs7b3F
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>You should see the following output:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
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User u10 buys item i14
User u10 views item i46
User u10 buys item i46
User u10 views item i30
User u10 buys item i30
User u10 views item i40
User u10 buys item i40
204 events are imported.
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p><a href="#"></a></p><div class="alert-message warning"><p>If you see error <strong>TypeError: <strong>init</strong>() got an unexpected keyword argument &#39;access_key&#39;</strong>, please update the Python SDK to the latest version.</p></div><p>You can query the event server again as described previously to check the imported events.</p> <h2 id='5.-deploy-the-engine-as-a-service' class='header-anchors'>5. Deploy the Engine as a Service</h2><p>Now you can build, train, and deploy the engine. First, make sure you are under the <code>MyECommerceRecommendation</code> directory.</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span><span class="nb">cd </span>MyECommerceRecommendation
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <h3 id='engine.json' class='header-anchors'>Engine.json</h3><p>Under the directory, you should find an <code>engine.json</code> file; this is where you specify parameters for the engine.</p><div class="alert-message warning"><p>Modify this file to make sure the <code>appName</code> parameter match your <strong>App Name</strong> you created earlier (e.g. &quot;MyApp1&quot; if you follow the quickstart).</p></div><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
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  <span class="s2">"datasource"</span>: <span class="o">{</span>
    <span class="s2">"params"</span> : <span class="o">{</span>
      <span class="s2">"appName"</span>: <span class="s2">"MyApp1"</span>
    <span class="o">}</span>
  <span class="o">}</span>,
  ...
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  <span class="s2">"algorithms"</span>: <span class="o">[</span>
    <span class="o">{</span>
      <span class="s2">"name"</span>: <span class="s2">"als"</span>,
      <span class="s2">"params"</span>: <span class="o">{</span>
        <span class="s2">"appName"</span>: <span class="s2">"MyApp1"</span>,
        ...
      <span class="o">}</span>
    <span class="o">}</span>
  <span class="o">]</span>
  ...
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<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>MasterActor] Bind successful. Ready to serve.
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>Do not kill the deployed engine process.</p><p>By default, the deployed engine binds to <a href="http://localhost:8000"><a href="http://localhost:8000">http://localhost:8000</a></a>. You can visit that page in your web browser to check its status.</p><p><img alt="Engine Status" src="/images/engine-server-3246414b.png"/></p></p><h2 id='6.-use-the-engine' class='header-anchors'>6. Use the Engine</h2><p>Now, You can retrieve predicted results. To recommend 4 items to user ID &quot;u1&quot;. You send this JSON <code>{ &quot;user&quot;: [&quot;u1&quot;], &quot;num&quot;: 4 }</code> to the deployed engine and it will return a JSON of the recommended items. Simply send a query by making a HTTP request or through the <code>EngineClient</code> of an SDK.</p><p>With the deployed engine running, open another temrinal and run the following <code>curl</code> command or use SDK to send the query:</p><div class="tabs"> <ul class="control"> <li data-lang="json"><a href="#tab-93d6dda2-02d8-4440-be24-856a403a0bb2">REST API</a></li> <li data-lang="python"><a href="#tab-0fc395b9-1a30-44de-9cf7-f3058a9aef4f">Python SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="php"><a href="#tab-32cecd21-b70c-462b-96e4-4c8083c48297">PHP SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="ruby"><a href="#tab-8de0e0ea-b119-4e65-95d3-524a801efbb0">Ruby SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="java"><a href="#tab-1bdd3a49-8e48-4278-8c07-6edc1d6f5761">Java SDK</a></li> </ul> <div data-tab="REST API" data-lang="json" id="tab-93d6dda2-02d8-4440-be24-856a403a0bb2"> <div class="highlight shell"> <table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr> <td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
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<span class="k">require_once</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"vendor/autoload.php"</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="k">use</span> <span class="nx">predictionio\EngineClient</span><span class="p">;</span>

<span class="nv">$client</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="nx">EngineClient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'http://localhost:8000'</span><span class="p">);</span>

<span class="nv">$response</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">$client</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">sendQuery</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'user'</span><span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'i1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'num'</span><span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">));</span>
<span class="nb">print_r</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$response</span><span class="p">);</span>

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<span class="n">client</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">PredictionIO</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="no">EngineClient</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nf">new</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'http://localhost:8000'</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c1"># Query PredictionIO.</span>
<span class="n">response</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">client</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nf">send_query</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'user'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'i1'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'num'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="nb">puts</span> <span class="n">response</span>
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<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList</span><span class="o">;</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">com.google.gson.JsonObject</span><span class="o">;</span>

<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">io.prediction.EngineClient</span><span class="o">;</span>

<span class="c1">// create client object</span>
<span class="n">EngineClient</span> <span class="n">engineClient</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">EngineClient</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"http://localhost:8000"</span><span class="o">);</span>

<span class="c1">// query</span>

<span class="n">JsonObject</span> <span class="n">response</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">engineClient</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">sendQuery</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">ImmutableMap</span><span class="o">.&lt;</span><span class="n">String</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="n">Object</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="n">of</span><span class="o">(</span>
        <span class="s">"user"</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="s">"u1"</span><span class="o">,</span>
        <span class="s">"num"</span><span class="o">,</span>  <span class="mi">4</span>
    <span class="o">));</span>
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  <span class="s2">"itemScores"</span>:[
    <span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i4"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.006009267718658978<span class="o">}</span>,
    <span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i33"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.005999267822052033<span class="o">}</span>,
    <span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i14"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.005261309429391667<span class="o">}</span>,
    <span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i3"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.003007015026561692<span class="o">}</span>
  <span class="o">]</span>
<span class="o">}</span>
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p><em>MyECommerceRecommendation</em> is now running.</p><div class="alert-message info"><p>To update the model periodically with new data, simply set up a cron job to call <code>pio train</code> and <code>pio deploy</code>. The engine will continue to serve prediction results during the re-train process. After the training is completed, <code>pio deploy</code> will automatically shutdown the existing engine server and bring up a new process on the same port.</p></div><div class="alert-message info"><p><strong>Note that if you import a <em>large</em> data set</strong> and the training seems to be taking forever or getting stuck, it&#39;s likely that there is not enough executor memory. It&#39;s recommended to setup a Spark standalone cluster, you&#39;ll need to specify more driver and executor memory when training with a large data set. Please see <a href="/resources/faq/#engine-training">FAQ here</a> for instructions.</p></div> <h2 id='setting-constraint-&quot;unavailableitems&quot;' class='header-anchors'>Setting constraint &quot;unavailableItems&quot;</h2><p>Now let&#39;s send a item contraint &quot;unavailableItems&quot; (replace accessKey with your Access Key):</p><div class="alert-message note"><p>You can also use SDK to send this event as decribed in the SDK sample above.</p></div><div class="tabs"> <ul class="control"> <li data-lang="json"><a href="#tab-72e00956-94b3-4576-bba5-a41969a69164">REST API</a></li> <li data-lang="python"><a href="#tab-664f8665-86a3-4e38-be2e-fba771b90fd3">Python SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="php"><a href="#tab-0283697c-2c7f-4da3-8e10-b29fceb3e6da">PHP SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="ruby"><a href="#tab-a85f7c04-f0fc-4e50-accf-c527f682965a">Ruby SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="java"><a href="#tab-e42ed2e5-430d-472a-9a18-6e4d1f904f82">Java SDK</a></li> </ul> <div data-tab="REST API" data-lang="json" id="tab-72e00956-94b3-4576-bba5-a41969a69164"> <div class="highlight shell"> <table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr> <td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
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-H <span class="s2">"Content-Type: application/json"</span> <span class="se">\</span>
-d <span class="s1">'{
  "event" : "$set",
  "entityType" : "constraint"
  "entityId" : "unavailableItems",
  "properties" : {
    "items": ["i4", "i14", "i11"],
  }
  "eventTime" : "2015-02-17T02:11:21.934Z"
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<span class="n">client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create_event</span><span class="p">(</span>
  <span class="n">event</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"$set"</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">entity_type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"constraint"</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">entity_id</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"unavailableItems"</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="n">properties</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="s">"items"</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="s">"&lt;ITEM ID1&gt;"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">"&lt;ITEM ID2&gt;"</span><span class="p">]</span>
  <span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="c1">// Set a list of unavailable items
</span><span class="nv">$client</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">createEvent</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span>
  <span class="s1">'event'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'$set'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'entityType'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'constraint'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'entityId'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'unavailableItems'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'properties'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'items'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'&lt;ITEM ID1&gt;'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'&lt;ITEM ID2&gt;'</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="p">));</span>
<span class="cp">?&gt;</span>
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  <span class="s1">'$set'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'constraint'</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s1">'unavailableItems'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="s1">'properties'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="p">{</span> <span class="s1">'items'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'&lt;ITEM ID1&gt;'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'&lt;ITEM ID2&gt;'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="p">}</span>
  <span class="p">}</span>
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<span class="n">Event</span> <span class="n">itemEvent</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">Event</span><span class="o">()</span>
  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">event</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"$set"</span><span class="o">)</span>
  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityType</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"constraint"</span><span class="o">)</span>
  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityId</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"unavailableItems"</span><span class="o">)</span>
  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">property</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"items"</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="n">ImmutableList</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">of</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"&lt;ITEM ID1&gt;"</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="s">"&lt;ITEM ID2&gt;"</span><span class="o">));</span>
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</pre></td> </tr></tbody></table> </div> </div> </div> <p>Try to get recommendation for user <em>u1</em> again, the unavaiable items (e.g. i4, i14, i11). won&#39;t be recommended anymore:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
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  "user": "u1",
  "num": 4,
  "blackList": ["i21", "i26", "i40"]
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<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"itemScores"</span>:[<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i33"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.005999267822052019<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i3"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.0030070150265619003<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i2"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.0028489173099429527<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i5"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.0028489173099429527<span class="o">}]}</span>
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  "event" : "$set",
  "entityType" : "constraint"
  "entityId" : "unavailableItems",
  "properties" : {
    "items": [],
  }
  "eventTime" : "2015-02-18T02:11:21.934Z"
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  "user": "u1",
  "num": 4,
  "categories" : ["c4", "c3"]
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<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"itemScores"</span>:[<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i4"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.006009267718658978<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i33"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.005999267822052033<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i14"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.005261309429391667<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i2"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.002848917309942939<span class="o">}]}</span>
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  "user": "u1",
  "num": 4,
  "whiteList": ["i1", "i2", "i3", "i21", "i22", "i23", "i24", "i25"]
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<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"itemScores"</span>:[<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i3"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.003007015026561692<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i2"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.002848917309942939<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i23"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.0016857619403278443<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i25"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:1.3707548965227745E-4<span class="o">}]}</span>
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  "user": "u1",
  "num": 4,
  "categories" : ["c4", "c3"],
  "blackList": ["i21", "i26", "i40"]
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<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"itemScores"</span>:[<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i4"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.006009267718658978<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i33"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.005999267822052033<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i14"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.005261309429391667<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"item"</span>:<span class="s2">"i2"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.002848917309942939<span class="o">}]}</span>
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