public static async Task <List <Product> > RecommendProductAsync(MyAppUserFriend friend)
{
List <Product> recommendedItems = new List <Product>();
List <string> categoryBasedOnGender = WomenCategoies;
if (friend.Gender == "male")
{
categoryBasedOnGender = MenCategoies;
}
foreach (var item in categoryBasedOnGender)
{
var result = await ShoppingSearchClient.GetProductsAsync(item);
//Randomly pick an item from the retrieved items
Random r = new Random();
var product = result.Products[r.Next(result.Products.Count())];
var des = product.Description;
//Remove html elements from Product Description
string noHTML = Regex.Replace(product.Description, @"<[^>]+>| ", "").Trim();
product.Description = Regex.Replace(noHTML, @"\s{2,}", " ");
recommendedItems.Add(product);
}
return(recommendedItems);
}
public static async Task <List <RecommendedItem> > RecommendProductAsync(MyAppUserFriend friend)
{
List <RecommendedItem> recommendedItem = new List <RecommendedItem>();
if (friend.Likes != null)
{
var friendLikes = friend.Likes.Data;
var friendLikesFilteredByCategory = friendLikes.Where(like => categoriesToConsider.Contains(like.Category));
foreach (var item in friendLikesFilteredByCategory.Take(10))
{
var result = await ShoppingSearchClient.GetProductsAsync(item.Name);
if (result.items == null)
{
// skip empty results
continue;
}
var products = result.items.Select(i => i.product).Take(2).Where(p => p != null);
foreach (var product in products)
{
recommendedItem.Add(new RecommendedItem
{
Product = product,
Reason = "likes " + item.Name
});
}
}
}
return(recommendedItem);
}
