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Cart frontend

Cart data

Cart data are returned by cart public API.

Data model

Each item returned by GET API contains:

  • userId: ID of the user
  • collection: collection to which result item belongs to
  • indexUrl: URL of result item that is used as unique identifier of that item
  • title: title of result item
  • summary: summary of result item
  • addedDate: date of adding item to cart in timestamp format
  • metaData: list of metadata

Rest API

The REST endpoint to manipulate the cart is /s/cart.json?collection=.... The HTTP method used will decide the type of operation:

  • GET will return the cart, as a JSON list.
  • DELETE, when called with no parameters, will clear the entire cart.
  • DELETE, when called with a url parameter (/s/cart.json?collection=...&url=...), will remove the URL from the cart.
  • POST will add a new item to the cart. An url parameter must be present, with the URL of the result to add to the cart.

All method calls will return the content of the cart for the current user, in the form of a JSON list.

Adding cart plugin

The cart widget is a JavaScript module that is loaded in the page in order to interact with and display cart data sourced from Funnelback.

Basic setup

In order to add the cart widget to your search website, you need to add some JavaScript code.

Note, you need to ensure that:

  • paths to the JavaScript files are correct
  • required libraries are included
  • the funnelback.session-cart.js code is included
  • widget is initiated by calling JavaScript class

<div id="search-cart"></div>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://funnelback.server/s/resources-global/thirdparty/es6-promise-4.2.5/es6-promise.auto.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://funnelback.server/s/resources-global/thirdparty/handlebars-4.0.12/handlebars.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://funnelback.server/s/resources-global/js/funnelback.session-cart-0.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  var flbSessionCart = new Funnelback.SessionCart({
    apiBase: 'http://funnelback.server/',
    collection: '<collection_name>',
  });
</script>

Dependencies

The following third party code is used for this implementation:

Required

  • es6-promise - polyfill version of JS Promise (required by Internet Explorer, at least v4.2.5)
  • Handlebars - JS templating (at least v4.0.12)

Plugin parameters

Data settings

  • apiBase: The web service URL to fetch and update cart data.
  • collection: The collection for which the cart data should be fetched.

General display settings

  • iconPrefix: Define CSS class prefix used to display icons.

Cart widget display settings

  • backIcon: Define icon to display within a link to return to search result page.
  • backLabel: Define text of a link to return to search result page.
  • clearClasses: Define CSS classes added to a button to clear all cart data.
  • clearIcon: Define icon to display within a button to clear all cart data.
  • clearLabel: Define text of a button to clear all cart data.
  • icon: Define icon to display within main header in cart widget.
  • label: Define text of main header in cart widget.
  • pageSelector: Define CSS selector to part of page to hide it when cart widget is displayed.
  • selector: Define CSS selector to element where content of cart should be displayed.

Cart count settings

  • icon: Define icon to display within cart widget trigger.
  • isLabel: If set to true display label within cart widget trigger, in other way display it as HTML title attribute.
  • label: Define a text to display within cart widget trigger.
  • selector: Define CSS selector to element which should trigger display of cart widget.
  • template: Define template used to display cart widget trigger.

Item trigger settings

  • iconAdd: Define icon to display within trigger to add an item to the cart.
  • iconDelete: Define icon to display within trigger to remove an item from the cart.
  • isLabel: If set to true display label within item trigger, in other way display it as HTML title attribute.
  • labelAdd: Define a text to display within trigger to add an item to the cart.
  • labelDelete: Define a text to display within trigger to remove an item from the cart.
  • position: Define relative position to selector element where trigger will be inserted.
  • selector: Define CSS selector of element where trigger will be inserted in relative position to it.
  • template: Define template used to display item trigger.

Note: the itemTrigger settings can be configured independently for the results appearing within the search results and the cart results. See cartItemTrigger and resultItemTrigger for examples.

Plugin methods

  • addItem: Add new item to cart widget.
  • clear: Clear cart data for the current user.
  • deleteItem: Delete item from cart widget.
  • getOption: Get current settings of cart widget.
  • hide: Hide cart widget.
  • show: Show cart widget.
  • toggle: Toggle cart widget.

Adding cart HTML endpoint

The result cart can be processed and rendered by implementing a custom Groovy action, and a custom FreeMarker template. Typical use cases includes exporting the cart in a PDF or printable format, or contacting a third party web service to submit the cart information to it.

Processing the cart with a custom Groovy script

The cart will be processed by redirecting the user to /s/cart-process?collection=...&profile=.... When this URL is called, Funnelback will invoke the cart-process.groovy script from the collection configuration folder. This script needs to implement the following interface:

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import com.funnelback.publicui.search.model.collection.Collection;
import com.funnelback.publicui.search.model.transaction.session.CartResult;
import com.funnelback.publicui.search.model.transaction.session.SearchUser;
import com.funnelback.publicui.search.web.controllers.session.CustomCartProcessor;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
def class MyCartProcessor extends CustomCartProcessor {
  /**
   * Processes the cart
   *
   * @param collection Collection where processing takes place
   * @param user Current user from the session
   * @param cart Results cart, for the given collection and user
   * @return A {@link ModelAndView} containing the data and the view to use
   */
  @Override
  public ModelAndView process(Collection collection, SearchUser user, List<CartResult> cart) {
    ...
  }
}

The following parameters are passed in:

collection

A collection object, identical to the one used in User interface hook scripts

user

The current user, with its ID in user.id

cart

The cart content, as a list of results identical to the search data model results in transaction.response.resultPacket.resultsThe script must return a value of type ModelAndView. This is a composite class containing a data model and the name of a FreeMarker template to use to render the cart. For example, if you wanted to place the current date in the data model, and render the cart using the application-form.ftl template, you could use the following code:

def model = [:]
model["date"] = new Date()
return new ModelAndView("application-form", model);

Note that the Modern UI will automatically place the collection, current user and cart content in the data model so you don't need to add them by yourself.

Implementation of this Groovy script is optional. If it's not present, the Modern UI will directly render the cart using the default FreeMarker template name: cart-process.ftl

Rendering the cart with FreeMarker

Once the cart has been processed, the configured FreeMarker template is called with the following entries in the data model:

collection

A collection object, identical to the one used in User interface hook scripts

user

The current user, with its ID in user.id

cart

The cart content, as a list of results identical to the search data model results in transaction.response.resultPacket.resultsOther items can be added to the data model by customising the cart processing, as explained in the previous section.

The FreeMarker template is then rendered, identically to a regular search query.

See also

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