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Migrate Server-to-server API 1.2 to 1.3

Describes changes between for version 1.3 of the Server-to-Server API, used for recommendations features in Optimizely.

Tracking Response

The API response will always contain the pageTrackingId parameter.

You can use this information when tracking on page dynamic searches or Personalized Search & Navigation (legacy) requests.

See the Personalized Search & Navigation (legacy) API document for how to track on-page dynamic searches.

userAgent

The userAgent parameter becomes mandatory in the tracking request.

Variant Tracking

You can track product variants on the Basket page , Order page and Checkout page pages.

Search results tracking request

The request payload for search tracking, in particular the searchResults section, has changed to track more accurate information.

Payload for v1.2:

{ 
      "type"          : "searchresults",
      "ip"            : "10.42.37.139",
      "session"       : "155780550/hKugo5RQsqecUpmlWE6EpFWqmalVrJU",
      "cuid"          : "143159800/hKugo5RQsqecUpmlWE6Eo1OklrJYp5U",
      "site"          : "retailer",
      "clientToken"   : "1234abcd5678",
      "channel"       : "web",
      "lang"          : "en-gb",
      "currentURI"    : "www.retailer.com/search.html?term=bags",
      "previousURI"   : "www.retailer.com/home.html",
      "searchResults" : { 
                          "term" : "bags", 
                          "results" : [ 
                                        {"refCode" : "RC1"},
                                        {"refCode" : "RC2"} 
                                      ] 
                        } 
    }

Payload for v1.3:

{
      "type"          : "searchresults",
      "ip"            : "10.42.37.139",
      "session"       : "155780550/hKugo5RQsqecUpmlWE6EpFWqmalVrJU",
      "cuid"          : "143159800/hKugo5RQsqecUpmlWE6Eo1OklrJYp5U", 
      "site"          : "retailer", 
      "clientToken"   : "1234abcd5678", 
      "channel"       : "web", 
      "lang"          : "en-gb", 
      "currentURI"    : "www.retailer.com/search.html?term=bags", 
      "previousURI"   : "www.retailer.com/home. html", 
      "userAgent"     : "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36", 
      "searchResults" : { 
                          "term"                        : "bags", 
                          "personalisationAttributesId" : "abcd1234", 
                          "totalNumberOfResults"        : 50, 
                          "pageNumber"                  : 1, 
                          "resultsOnPage"               : 18, 
                          "filters"                     : [{ 
                                                            "filter"   : "colour", 
                                                            "operator" : "IN", 
                                                            "values"   : ["red","orange","yellow"] 
                                                           }, 
                                                           { 
                                                            "filter"   : "price", 
                                                            "operator" : "BW", 
                                                            "values"   : ["0","50"] 
                                                           }, 
                                                           { 
                                                            "filter"   : "size", 
                                                            "operator" : "IN", 
                                                            "values"   : ["XS","S"] 
                                                          }], 
                          "topResults"                  : [ 
                                                            {"refCode" : "RC1"}, 
                                                            {"refCode" : "RC2"}, 
                                                            {"refCode" : "RC3"} 
                                                          ] 
                        } 
    }