Introduction

This document explains how to implement Infinity. We’ve done our best to make implementation as easy as possible and we hope you like it!

Our technical documentation consists of three sections:

A step-by-step developer guide to set up a basic implementation for searching and related features. This section will guide you through setting up communication with the engine, creating requests, receiving responses and sending the correct events back to the search engine.
Connectors for simple integrations with the following programming languages: Javascript, PHP, .NET and Java
An extensive API reference allows you to customise your integration as you want

Developer Guide

The developer guide provides a technical overview of what aspects to consider when implementing the Infinity search engine. A typical implementation will follow the steps below, follow the link under each step for more details.

This guide assumes that you are using one of our Connectors and the examples shown are demonstrated with code examples for each connector. The same functionality as demonstrated here can of course be achieved by interfacing our API directly.

Step 1

Accessing the Infinity API

Integration and interaction with the Infinity search engine is done via our API. Learn more.

Step 2

Setting up the Product feed

Infinity indexes all your products and makes them easy to find for searching end users. You will need to generate a feed describing all your products containing all attributes and metadata that is relevant in order to deliver relevant search results. Learn more.

Step 3

Syncing the Product Catalog

When your product catalog is updated Infinity must be notified to sync the changes. Learn more.

Step 4

Implementing Search Functionality

This step gives an introduction to how to implement search functionality and you should also read steps 5, 6 & 7 about autocomplete and custom sorting and filtering. Learn more.

Step 5

Implement Autocomplete

You will want to provide your users with search suggestions as they type. Learn more.

Step 6

Faceting

This guide explains how to add faceting to your search results. Learn more.

Step 7

Custom Sorting and Filtering

The Infinity search engine is highly configurable and you can sort and filter results to fit your requirements. Learn more.

Step 8

Sending Events

The Infinity search engine is a learning engine that automatically improves search result relevance based on user interactions. To be able to achieve this, the implementation must send said user interactions as events to the API. A normal implementation must send Click, AddToCart and Purchase events for optimal operation. Learn more.

Step9

Category Listings

In addition to search, the Infinity engine can also provide category listings of your catalog. All the benefits of Infinity’s clever personalisation and session intent sorting can then be applied to the order of listed products. Learn more.

Connectors

To simplify your integration, we have created convenience connectors that takes care of everything you normally need in a standard integration such as handling user ID cookies, forwarding client metadata, JSON serialization and HTTP plumbing.

If you are using a programming language not listed below or require a customised integration please refer to the API reference.

If you want a general overview of what a Infinity implementation should contain, please refer to our developer guide

Select the programming language relevant to you from the list below.