getting at user preferences from Search module

Benjamin Anderson

I have a story for a feature project (Napa) which requires work in the Search module. I'm adding event data to the event payload. I'm not sure where to get a few of the values from, though:

- User Market Segment
- Whether password is internal or external
- Email address tied to the user's account (same as used for any delivery)

Another dev on our team suggested:

> If you're in static content you can
> simply say
> Cobalt.User.Preference.Get("vertical","preference").
> If you are in another module then you
> would call out to an endpoint on
> Website GET
> V2/Preference?verticalName=vertical&perferenceName=preference
> ... if you have the Website code, you
> can go to a file called
> PreferencesKey.cs and it will have an
> enum of all available preferences

I can't seem to find an equivalent in the Search code. Does anyone know if code to call this endpoint exists already in Search? Or whether that's the right endpoint I need for the values I listed above?

Thanks,
Ben

shaggyalien

I am not sure if there needs to be a specific implementation for Preferences in every module. `Cobalt.Alerts.UserPreferences.js` or `UserPreferences.js` files in StaticContent is an example that is being used by Alerts. I can confirm that the url is right though.

You can run this simple javascript while you are inside WLN which will inturn call an endpoint, it will fail as the preference name in the code is wrong. You will get to see the endpoint none the less.

`Cobalt.User.Preference.Get("Search","MarketSegment")`