As with any other API, you require appropriate access_token to work with Suggest API. Refer to Authentication Flow for necessary detail.

Location Based Suggestions API

Resources suggested to users based on their current collection in study are termed as location-based suggestions. These resources are highly curated content items that are related to the collection being studied.

API End Point
{REST_END_POINT}/gooru-search/rest/v3/suggest/{type}

Method Type
POST

Request Headers

Header	Value	Description
Authorization	Token {TOKEN}	Replace the {TOKEN} with actual value of access_token obtained from authentication.

Path Variables

Name	Data Type	Value	Description
type	String	'resource'	Denotes type of suggestions to surface. This provides future extensibility around suggestions.

Request Params

Name

Data Type

Default

Description

limit

Integer

3

Number of maximum suggestions to return. Value can be anything between 1..10.

Max limit is 10 suggestions.

Request Body

Key	Data Type	Value	Description
context.context_type	String	'collection-study'	Indicates the type of user activity around which suggestions are to be made.
context.context_area	String	'study-player'	Indicates the application context of users' current activity.
context.collection_id	UUID	ID of collection being studied by user	ID of collection being studied by user around which suggestions will be made
context.user_id	UUID	ID of current user	Identifies the user in Gooru system
metrics	JSON	{}	Empty JSON needs to be passed for now. Future extension.

Sample Call

Curl -i -H "Authorization:Token MTQ3NDM1NDIzMDk1OTowMjE5MDkwYy1hYmU2LTRhMDktOGM5Zi0zNDM5MTFmNWNkODY6YmE5NTZhOTctYWUxNS0xMWU1LWEzMDItZjhhOTYzMDY1OTc" -XPOST ‘http://gooru.org/gooru-search/rest/v3/suggest/resource?limit=3’ -d ‘{ "context":{ "context_type":"collection-study", "user_id":"3784de18-1361-4ef0-b0ae-5aca980cdfe3", "container_id":"4784de18-1361-4ef0-b0ae-5aca980cdfe3", "course_id":"5784de18-1361-4ef0-b0ae-5aca980cdfe3", "unit_id":"6784de18-1361-4ef0-b0ae-5aca980cdfe3", "lesson_id":"7784de18-1361-4ef0-b0ae-5aca980cdfe3" }, "metrics":{} }’

Response Structure

Key	Data Type	Value	Description
executionTime	Number	time spent in milliseconds	Indicates time spent in surfacing suggestions.
suggestResults	JSON Array	Array of resource objects.	Each resource object is a JSON with the keys as: title, contentFormat, contentSubFormat, description, url, curriculumInfo, etc. This is similar to Search response.
suggestedType	String	'resource'	Indicates the type of suggestions responded with - for now it is 'resource'.

Sample Response

{
"executionTime":127,
"suggestResults":[{
  "addDate":1329341077000,
  "usedInCollectionCount":1, 
  "contentFormat":"resource", 
  "contentSubFormat":"interactive_resource", 
  "description":"Why do scientists use microscopes to study plant cells?", 
  "gooruOid":"bd741800-4cb9-4e5d-8ceb-5f3ce581a9db", 
  "grade":null, 
  "hasFrameBreaker":false, 
  "lastModified":1329341077000, 
  "lastModifiedString":"2012-02-15T21:24:37Z",
  "license":{ 
    "code":"CC0 1.0", 
    "icon":"license/oer_icon.png", 
    "name":"creative commons",
    "url":"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"
  }, 
  "publishStatus":"published", 
  "publisher":null, 
  "collectionIds":["775b139c-adb1-414a-8a60-07ef24f7b77c"], 
  "collectionTitles":["Quiz: Looking Inside Cells"],
  "taxonomySet":{ 
    "subject":[ "Science" ], 
    "domain":[ "Cell Biology" ],
    "course":[], 
    "curriculum":{ 
      "curriculumName":[ "CA" ], 
      "curriculumCode":[ "CA.SCI.7.LS.1b" ], 
      "curriculumInfo":[{ 
        "code":"CA.SCI.7.LS.1b", 
        "frameworkCode":"CA", 
        "id":"CA.K12.SC-7-CB-01.02", 
        "title":"Students know the characteristics that distinguish plant cells from animal cells, including chloroplasts and cell walls.",
        "parentTitle":"Science" 
      }],
      "curriculumDesc":[ "Students know the characteristics that distinguish plant cells from animal cells, including chloroplasts and cell walls."] 
    }
  },
  "title":"Why do scientists use microscopes to study plant cells? ",
  "url":null,
  "viewCount":2
}],
"suggestedType":"resource"
}