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Display skills sorted in different orders in SUSI.AI Android App

Skills in SUSI.AI were displayed in a random order earlier as per the response received from the server. To provide more flexibility to the users, the skills can be sorted by various orders like top-rated, lexicographical, recently updated and so on. This blog shows how to get sorted skills from the server using the getSkillList.json API.

API Information

For requesting a list of SUSI skills, the endpoint used is /cms/getSkillList.json.
This will give you the sorted skills as per the applied filter. Some of the filters include top rated skills, recently updated skills, newly created skills, etc.

Base URL : https://api.susi.ai/cms/getSkillList.json

Parameters to be passed :

  • group – This is the group to which a skill belongs to.
  • language – The language in which the skill is needed.
  • applyFilter – This parameter tells if the filtering needs to be enabled.
  • filter_type – This is the order in which the skills need to be sorted and is applicable if applyFilter is true.
  • filter_name – This tells whether the order of sorting needs to be ascending or descending and is applicable if applyFilter is true.

Currently, there are following filters available :

  • Top Rated : The skills will be sorted based on the skills ratings by users.

filter_type :  rating
filter_name : ascending or descending (based on the requirement).

 

  • Lexicographical : The skills will be sorted in alphabetical order.

filter_type :  lexicographical
filter_name : ascending (to show skills in the order A-Z) or (descending to show skills in the order Z-A).

 

  • Newly Created : The skills will be displayed based on the date of creation.

filter_type :  creation_date
filter_name : ascending to show newly created skills first and descending to show the oldest created skills first.

 

  • Recently Updated : The skills will be sorted based on the date when they were last updated.

filter_type :  modified_date
filter_name : ascending or descending as per requirement.

 

  • Feedback Count : The skills will be sorted as per the feedback count.

filter_type :  feedback
filter_name : ascending to show skills with the most number of feedbacks first and descending to show skills with the least number of feedbacks first.

 

  • This Week Usage : The skills will be sorted as per the usage analytics of the week.

filter_type :  usage
duration : 7
filter_name : descending to show the most used skill first and vice-versa.

 

  • This Week Usage : The skills will be sorted as per the usage analytics for the last 30 days.

filter_type :  usage
duration : 30
filter_name : descending to show the most used skill first and vice-versa.

 

Note: In all the above cases, the ‘applyFilter’ param will be passed with the value ‘true’ otherwise the skills will not be sorted.

Here is an example of a URL for displaying the top rated skills:

https://api.susi.ai/cms/getSkillList.json?group=All&language=en&applyFilter=true&filter_name=descending&filter_type=rating

 

To make a request to the getSkillList.json API, make a GET request as follows :

@GET("/cms/getSkillList.json")
Call<ListSkillsResponse> fetchListSkills(@QueryMap Map<String, String> query);

 

Here the query map contains all the aforementioned params.

Now, make the GET request using Retrofit from the model :

private lateinit var authResponseCallSkills: Call<ListSkillsResponse>

override fun fetchSkills(group: String, language: String, listener: IGroupWiseSkillsModel.OnFetchSkillsFinishedListener) {
   val queryObject = SkillsListQuery(group, language, "true", "descending", "rating")
   authResponseCallSkills = ClientBuilder.fetchListSkillsCall(queryObject)

   authResponseCallSkills.enqueue(object : Callback<ListSkillsResponse> {
       override fun onResponse(call: Call<ListSkillsResponse>, response: Response<ListSkillsResponse>) {
           listener.onSkillFetchSuccess(response, group)
       }

       override fun onFailure(call: Call<ListSkillsResponse>, t: Throwable) {
           Timber.e(t)
           listener.onSkillFetchFailure(t)
       }
   })
}

override fun cancelFetch() {
   try {
       authResponseCallSkills.cancel()
   } catch (e: Exception) {
       Timber.e(e)
   }
}

 

The skills in the filteredData array, received in the JSON response, shall be sorted in the order based on the filter_type and filter_name params that you passed. Now, this array can be used to display skills on the skills listing page.

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Displaying Top Hashtags by sorting Hashtags based on the frequency

It is a good idea to display top hashtags on sidebar of loklak. To represent them, it is really important to sort out all unique hashtags on basis of frequency from results obtained from api.loklak. The implementation of the process involved would be discussed in this blog.

Raw Hashtag result

The Hashtags obtained as a parameter of type array containing array of strings into the sortHashtags() method inside the component typescript file of Info-box Component is in Raw Hashtag form.

Making Array of all Hashtags

Firstly, all the Hashtags would be added to a new Array – stored.

sortHashtags( statistics ) {
    let stored = [];
    if (statistics !== undefined && 
        statistics.length !== 0) {
        for (const s in statistics) {
            if (s) {
                for (let i = 0;i <
                    statistics[s].length; i++) {
                    stored.push(statistics[s][i]);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

 

stored.push( element ) will add each element ( Hashtag ) into the stored array.

Finding frequency of each unique Hashtag

array.reduce() method would be used to store all the Hashtags inside the stored array with frequency of each unique Hashtag (e.g. [ ‘Hashtag1’: 3, ‘Hashtag2’: 2, ‘Hashtag3’: 5, … ]), where Hashtag1 has appeared 3 times, Hashtag2 appeared 2 times and so on.

stored = stored.reduce(function (acc, curr) {
    if (typeof acc[curr] === ‘undefined’) {
        acc[curr] = 1;
    } else {
        acc[curr] += 1;
    }
    return acc;
}, []);

 

stored.reduce() would store the result inside stored array in the format mentioned above.

Using Object to get the required result

Object would be used with different combination of associated methods such as map, filter, sort and slice to get the required Top 10 Hashtags sorted on the basis of frequency of each unique Hashtag.

this.topHashtags = Object.keys(stored)
    .map(key => key.trim())
    .filter(key => key !== ”)
    .map(key => ([key, stored[key]]))
    .sort((a, b) => b[1] – a[1])
    .slice(0, 10);

 

At last, the result is stored inside topHashtags array. First map method is used to trim out spaces from all the keys ( Hashtags ), first filter is applied to remove all those Hashtags which are empty and then mapping each Hashtag as an array with a unique index inside the containing array. At last, sorting each Hashtag on basis of the frequency using sort method and slicing the results to get Top 10 Hashtags to be displayed on sidebar of loklak.

Testing Top Hashtags

Search something on loklak.org to obtain sidebar with results. Now look through the Top 10 Hashtags being displayed on the Sidebar info-box.

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