Thanks Vaghawan. I think using the "blacklistItems" might be better for my use case rather than passing in the "block" events. I didn't think of this.
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Vaghawan Ojha <[email protected]> wrote: > So you're not sending the blocklisted items in query like this right? > > "blacklistItems": ["itemId1", "itemId2", ...] > > So, you have those blocked events, then you must be able to update them > accordingly just the way you set them as blocked. Or else I'm still not > clear (I'm sorry in that case). > > Thanks > Vaghawan > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Mattz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is how I am using now. I send a blocked event if a user blocks an >> item. So, when recommending items for the user, this item does not show up. >> I am using the "universal recommender" template. >> >> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Vaghawan Ojha <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Oh Yes Mattz, I seems to have misunderstood your situation. I thought >>> that you were having that blocked prop as a properties or something. My >>> thought must have been totally wrong. >>> >>> I'm not clear if you're sending the blocked items in query or something >>> else? Also which template you have been using? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Mattz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Vaghawan. "$set" and "$unset" are used to set/unset item >>>> properties right? Since these are not like the other events, these items >>>> would still be returned unless I manually find all the things blocked and >>>> filter from list to get my result set. But, if I send "blocked" as a >>>> regular event, PIO automatically filters out items that were blocked by the >>>> user. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Vaghawan Ojha <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Mattz, >>>>> >>>>> You could just use $set, $unset to achieve this. When user wish to >>>>> unblock the item, just send in another request in the event server to >>>>> update the event. This would solve your problem from as much as I know >>>>> from >>>>> using pio eventserver. >>>>> >>>>> you could find the examples here. https://predictionio.inc >>>>> ubator.apache.org/datacollection/eventmodel/ >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> Vaghawan >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Mattz <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> I have a use case where I am sending a "blocked" event for a user for >>>>>> a particular item. When this happens, PIO eliminates this item from the >>>>>> result set. But, the user can choose to "unblock" this item at a later >>>>>> time. I am wondering how to handle this. Should I somehow delete the >>>>>> event >>>>>> from the even server? If yes, how? Is there any other way to solve this? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks! >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
