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Facet normalizer

Facet normalizer

Concept of facets exists in both Unified Data Layer world and SAP. The normalizeFacet function maps SAP Facet into Unified SfFacet.

Parameters

NameTypeDefault valueDescription
contextNormalizerContextContext which contains currentQuery for searchProducts
facetFacetSAP Facet

Extending

The SfFacet is returned from SearchProducts Method. If the SfFacet structure doesn't contain the information you need for your Storefront, you can extend its logic using the addCustomFields API. The following example demonstrates how to extend SfFacet with a multiSelect field.

export const unifiedApiExtension = createUnifiedExtension({
  normalizers: {
    addCustomFields: [
      {
        normalizeFacet: (context, facet) => ({
          multiSelect: facet.multiSelect,
        }),
      },
    ],
  },
  config: {
    ...
  },
});

Source

In the Unified Data Layer, the SfFacet array is expected to return all of the available facets, including the current selected facets. In SAP the selected facets are present in the currentQuery object returned from the searchProducts API Client method. So to retrieve them, we have to extract them from the query value. An explanation of the expected behaviour can be found in the facet.feature file which contains test scenarios.

facet.ts
import { maybe } from "@/helpers";
import type { Facet, FacetValue } from "@vsf-enterprise/sapcc-types";
import { SfFacetTypes, type SfFacetType } from "@vue-storefront/unified-data-model";
import { defineNormalizer } from "../defineNormalizer";

export const normalizeFacet = defineNormalizer.normalizeFacet((context, facet) => {
  const { name: label, values } = facet;
  const name = normalizeFacetName(facet);
  const selectedValues = getSelectedValues(context.currentQuery?.query?.value ?? "", name);

  const sfFacetItems =
    values?.map((term) => ({
      label: term.name as string,
      value: normalizeFacetItemValue(term, selectedValues),
      productCount: maybe(term.count),
    })) || [];

  if (sfFacetItems.length === 0) {
    return null;
  }
  const { getFacetType = defaultGetFacetType } = context;

  return {
    label: label as string,
    name: normalizeFacetName(facet),
    values: sfFacetItems,
    type: getFacetType(facet),
  };
});

function normalizeFacetName(facet: Facet): string {
  let name = facet.name as string;
  const nonSelectedValue = facet.values?.find((value) => !value?.selected);
  const exampleQueryUrl = nonSelectedValue?.query?.query?.value;

  if (exampleQueryUrl) {
    name = exampleQueryUrl.split(":").at(-2) ?? name;
  }

  return name;
}

function normalizeFacetItemValue(facetValue: FacetValue, selectedValues: string[]): string {
  let value = facetValue.name as string;
  const queryUrl = facetValue?.query?.query?.value;

  if (facetValue.selected) {
    value = guessSelectedFacetItemValue(value, selectedValues);
  } else if (queryUrl) {
    value = queryUrl.split(":").at(-1) ?? value;
  }

  return value;
}

function getSelectedValues(queryValue: string, facetName: string): string[] {
  const regex = new RegExp(`:${facetName}:([^:]+)`, "g");
  const matches = queryValue.match(regex);
  if (matches) {
    return matches.map((match) => match.split(":")?.[2]).filter(Boolean);
  }
  return [];
}

function guessSelectedFacetItemValue(facetItemName: string, selectedValues: string[]): string {
  const facetNameAsUri = encodeURIComponent(facetItemName as string).replace(/%20/g, "+");
  return (
    selectedValues.find((value) => value.toLowerCase() === facetNameAsUri.toLowerCase()) ??
    facetNameAsUri.toUpperCase()
  );
}

function defaultGetFacetType(facet: Facet): SfFacetType {
  return facet.multiSelect === false ? SfFacetTypes.SINGLE_SELECT : SfFacetTypes.MULTI_SELECT;
}