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Return Personalization

Use this code when you are requesting and serving personalized product recommendations.

Replace the following placeholders in the code:

• <placement name> with your Placement name. You can find a list of placements in your Dashboard.
• <search keywords>with the search keywords the customer typed to perform this search.

#import <RichRelevanceSDK/RichRelevanceSDK.h>

RCHRequestPlacement *placement = [[RCHRequestPlacement alloc] initWithPageType:RCHPlacementPageTypeSearch name:@"<placement name>"];
    
RCHPlacementRecsBuilder *builder = [RCHSDK builderForRecsWithPlacement:placement];
[builder setSearchTerm:@"<search keywords>"];    
__block RCHRecommendedProduct *product;
[[RCHSDK defaultClient] sendRequest:[builder build] success:^(id responseObject) {
    RCHPlacementsResult *result = responseObject;
    RCHPlacement *placement = result.placements[0];
    product = placement.recommendedProducts[0];
} failure:^(id responseObject, NSError *error){
    // Use this code block to handle any errors that may occur while loading recommendations.
    NSLog(@"Error encountered: %@", error);
}];

Calling multiple placements

If you want to call multiple placements, simply initialize a builder with a nil placement, then define your placements and pass them to builder:addPlacement. You can also create a list such as a NSArray and iterate with a for..in loop.

IMPORTANT Placements must always be of the same type per request.

    NSArray *placements = @[
                            [[RCHRequestPlacement alloc] initWithPageType:RCHPlacementPageTypeSearch name:@"recs_top"],
                            [[RCHRequestPlacement alloc] initWithPageType:RCHPlacementPageTypeSearch name:@"recs_middle"]
                            ];
    
    RCHPlacementRecsBuilder *builder = [RCHSDK builderForRecsWithPlacement:nil];
    for (RCHRequestPlacement *placement in placements) {
        [builder addPlacement:placement];
    }
    [builder setSearchTerm:@"<search keywords>"];
    
    [[RCHSDK defaultClient] sendRequest:builder success:^(id responseObject) {
        // Add your display logic here
    } failure:^(id responseObject, NSError *error) {
        // Add your error handling logic here
    }];

Listening Mode

When you do not render personalization in your Cart UX, you must still send an Cart request using the SDK. This is required so that RichRelevance can gather usage data in order to train your personalization models. In this specific case, you will create a listening placement. Listening placements are a special type of placement that can only log usage data without returning personalization data.

Replace <search keywords> with keywords the customer typed to perform this search.

#import <RichRelevanceSDK/RichRelevanceSDK.h>

RCHRequestPlacement *placement = [[RCHRequestPlacement alloc] initWithListeningPageType:RCHPlacementPageTypeSearch];    
RCHPlacementRecsBuilder *builder = [RCHSDK builderForRecsWithPlacement:placement];
[builder setSearchTerm:@"<search keywords>"]; 
[[RCHSDK defaultClient] sendRequest:[builder build]];