Recommender (user/item) system using Mahout and MongoDB, wrapped by a REST service.
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The root path for the resources is: http://<tomcatHost>:<TomcatPort>/Recommender<url-pattern>
The <url-pattern> is specified in the url-pattern tag in the conf/web.xml file, and by default it is set to /*
For a particular user, you can request:
The recommended users with an HTTP GET to http://<rootPath>/users/<userID>/recommendedUsers , receiving an XML response like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<recommendedUsers type="array">
<recommendedUser>
<id>id of the recommended user #1</id>
</recommendedUser>
<recommendedUser>
<id>id of the recommended user #2</id>
</recommendedUser>
<recommendedUser>
<id>id of the recommended user #3</id>
</recommendedUser>
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.
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</recommendedUsers>
The recommended items with an HTTP GET to http://<rootPath>/users/<userID>/recommendedItems , receiving an XML response like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<recommendedItems type="array">
<recommendedItem>
<id>id of the recommended item #1</id>
</recommendedItem>
<recommendedItem>
<id>id of the recommended item #2</id>
</recommendedItem>
<recommendedItem>
<id>id of the recommended item #3</id>
</recommendedItem>
.
.
.
</recommendedItems>
You can create a preference with an HTTP POST to http://<rootPath>/recommender_preferences.xml , including the data of the preference in the body in an XML like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<recommender-preference>
<user-id type="integer">id of the user to which the preference belongs</user-id>
<item-id type="integer">id of the item to which the preference refers</item-id>
<preference type="integer">numeric value of the preference</preference>
</recommender-preference>
You can delete a preference with an HTTP DELETE to http://<rootPath>/recommender_preferences/<preferenceID>.xml
This project has been developed at Paradigma Labs
The Recommender itself and the Mahout data model for MongoDB have been developed by Fernando Tapia Rico ( http://fernandotapiarico.com/ )
The REST service wrapper has been developed by Álvaro Martín Fraguas ( https://github.com/amartinfraguas )
Julio Manuel Gonzalez Rodriguez
Any issues? Please create an Issue on GitHub.
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