Hi Chamika
On 4/28/11 8:16 AM, Chamika Peiris wrote:
_Capturing user actions:_
I hope to capture user actions using a Java API in the personalization
module. For example, I can give methods in the API for "user buying",
"user rating", etc. The issue I have with this is how the client can
call this API. Can you give me a little clarification in this
regard?(I have given a use case for a particular user action called
"user search")
the logging for example can be done via Javascript, e.g.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/easyrec/index.php?title=JavaScript_API_v0.95
whereas these requests are then sent to "Boost" instead the CMS, or the
CMS can log the relevant requests by itself, e.g. using log4j and
logging something like
4317126 2011-04-28 10:23:45,899 [http-8080-Processor23] INFO Access -
url:http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A8080%2Fyanel%2Fyanel-website%2Fen%2Fabout.html
r:yanel-website c:YA-1302509054838 ref:null
ua:Mozilla%2F5.0+%28Macintosh%3B+U%3B+Intel+Mac+OS+X+10.6%3B+en-US%3B+rv%3A1.9.2.13%29+Gecko%2F20101203+Firefox%2F3.6.13
t:overview%2CAbout+Lenya
whereas the most important parts re personalized interest analysis are, e.g.
Tags (t): t:overview,About Lenya
Unique cookie ID (c): c:YA-1302509054838
_User Case for "user search":_
1. User logs in to the web application
2. User types "<search keyword>" in the search box
3. Clicks on the "Search" button
4. Receives personalized results
I guess you mean for example if a user types "Java" as a search term,
and if the user is mostly interested in
programming languages, then the results will be about Java as
programming language, whereas if the user
is not interested in programming language, then the results will be
about Java Island or Java coffee, right?
In the 3rd step how the Lenya user can call our Java API?
Well, the CMS would call the API of "Boost", e.g. via SOAP it could look
like:
Request to "Boost":
GET /boost/user-interests/cookie-id/YA-1299502385092
GET /boost/user-interest/user-id/marc
Response by "Boost"
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<user-interests cookie-id="YA-1299502385092" user-id="IF_AVAILABLE">
<interest weight="10">Jaguar</interest>
<interest weight="2">VW</interest>
</user-interests>
(Comment: Higher weight values are considered more important)
which means the Lenya personalization module can then use the above user
interests to generate
a personalized response. The flow is as follows:
Browser/User -> Lenya CMS -> Boost -> Lenya CMS -> Browser/User
Does Lenya have support for configuring such activities?
what activities?
_Using existing databases:_
Does Lenya have records for "user ratings", etc in databases, so that
we can use them in our personalization process? Does Lenya keep server
logs for all kind user actions and can we extract data such as "user
ID", "login time", etc from the server logs?
IIRC it also uses log4j, but not specifically for access logging, but as
I tried to point out above, Lenya
doesn't have to do this by itself, but I guess the most simple of
integrating this is by adding
the Javascript code to each page (see above or similar as Google analytics).
HTH
Michael
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