Package google.cloud.retail.v2

Index

AnalyticsService

Service for managing & accessing retail search business metric. Retail recommendation business metric is currently not available.

ExportAnalyticsMetrics

rpc ExportAnalyticsMetrics(ExportAnalyticsMetricsRequest) returns (Operation)

Exports analytics metrics.

Operation.response is of type ExportAnalyticsMetricsResponse. Operation.metadata is of type ExportMetadata.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the catalog resource:

  • retail.catalogs.exportAnalyticsMetrics

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

CatalogService

Service for managing catalog configuration.

AddCatalogAttribute

rpc AddCatalogAttribute(AddCatalogAttributeRequest) returns (AttributesConfig)

Adds the specified CatalogAttribute to the AttributesConfig.

If the CatalogAttribute to add already exists, an ALREADY_EXISTS error is returned.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the attributesConfig resource:

  • retail.attributesConfigs.addCatalogAttribute

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

GetAttributesConfig

rpc GetAttributesConfig(GetAttributesConfigRequest) returns (AttributesConfig)

Gets an AttributesConfig.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.attributesConfigs.get

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

GetCompletionConfig

rpc GetCompletionConfig(GetCompletionConfigRequest) returns (CompletionConfig)

Gets a CompletionConfig.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

GetDefaultBranch

rpc GetDefaultBranch(GetDefaultBranchRequest) returns (GetDefaultBranchResponse)

Get which branch is currently default branch set by CatalogService.SetDefaultBranch method under a specified parent catalog.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

ListCatalogs

rpc ListCatalogs(ListCatalogsRequest) returns (ListCatalogsResponse)

Lists all the Catalogs associated with the project.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.catalogs.list

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

RemoveCatalogAttribute

rpc RemoveCatalogAttribute(RemoveCatalogAttributeRequest) returns (AttributesConfig)

Removes the specified CatalogAttribute from the AttributesConfig.

If the CatalogAttribute to remove does not exist, a NOT_FOUND error is returned.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the attributesConfig resource:

  • retail.attributesConfigs.removeCatalogAttribute

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

ReplaceCatalogAttribute

rpc ReplaceCatalogAttribute(ReplaceCatalogAttributeRequest) returns (AttributesConfig)

Replaces the specified CatalogAttribute in the AttributesConfig by updating the catalog attribute with the same CatalogAttribute.key.

If the CatalogAttribute to replace does not exist, a NOT_FOUND error is returned.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the attributesConfig resource:

  • retail.attributesConfigs.replaceCatalogAttribute

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

SetDefaultBranch

rpc SetDefaultBranch(SetDefaultBranchRequest) returns (Empty)

Set a specified branch id as default branch. API methods such as SearchService.Search, ProductService.GetProduct, ProductService.ListProducts will treat requests using "default_branch" to the actual branch id set as default.

For example, if projects/*/locations/*/catalogs/*/branches/1 is set as default, setting SearchRequest.branch to projects/*/locations/*/catalogs/*/branches/default_branch is equivalent to setting SearchRequest.branch to projects/*/locations/*/catalogs/*/branches/1.

Using multiple branches can be useful when developers would like to have a staging branch to test and verify for future usage. When it becomes ready, developers switch on the staging branch using this API while keeping using projects/*/locations/*/catalogs/*/branches/default_branch as SearchRequest.branch to route the traffic to this staging branch.

CAUTION: If you have live predict/search traffic, switching the default branch could potentially cause outages if the ID space of the new branch is very different from the old one.

More specifically:

  • PredictionService will only return product IDs from branch {newBranch}.
  • SearchService will only return product IDs from branch {newBranch} (if branch is not explicitly set).
  • UserEventService will only join events with products from branch {newBranch}.
Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the catalog resource:

  • retail.catalogs.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

UpdateAttributesConfig

rpc UpdateAttributesConfig(UpdateAttributesConfigRequest) returns (AttributesConfig)

Updates the AttributesConfig.

The catalog attributes in the request will be updated in the catalog, or inserted if they do not exist. Existing catalog attributes not included in the request will remain unchanged. Attributes that are assigned to products, but do not exist at the catalog level, are always included in the response. The product attribute is assigned default values for missing catalog attribute fields, e.g., searchable and dynamic facetable options.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.attributesConfigs.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

UpdateCatalog

rpc UpdateCatalog(UpdateCatalogRequest) returns (Catalog)

Updates the Catalogs.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.catalogs.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

UpdateCompletionConfig

rpc UpdateCompletionConfig(UpdateCompletionConfigRequest) returns (CompletionConfig)

Updates the CompletionConfigs.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

CompletionService

Autocomplete service for retail.

This feature is only available for users who have Retail Search enabled. Enable Retail Search on Cloud Console before using this feature.

CompleteQuery

rpc CompleteQuery(CompleteQueryRequest) returns (CompleteQueryResponse)

Completes the specified prefix with keyword suggestions.

This feature is only available for users who have Retail Search enabled. Enable Retail Search on Cloud Console before using this feature.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the catalog resource:

  • retail.catalogs.completeQuery

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

ImportCompletionData

rpc ImportCompletionData(ImportCompletionDataRequest) returns (Operation)

Bulk import of processed completion dataset.

Request processing is asynchronous. Partial updating is not supported.

The operation is successfully finished only after the imported suggestions are indexed successfully and ready for serving. The process takes hours.

This feature is only available for users who have Retail Search enabled. Enable Retail Search on Cloud Console before using this feature.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.catalogs.import

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

ControlService

Service for modifying Control.

CreateControl

rpc CreateControl(CreateControlRequest) returns (Control)

Creates a Control.

If the Control to create already exists, an ALREADY_EXISTS error is returned.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.controls.create

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

DeleteControl

rpc DeleteControl(DeleteControlRequest) returns (Empty)

Deletes a Control.

If the Control to delete does not exist, a NOT_FOUND error is returned.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.controls.delete

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

GetControl

rpc GetControl(GetControlRequest) returns (Control)

Gets a Control.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.controls.get

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

ListControls

rpc ListControls(ListControlsRequest) returns (ListControlsResponse)

Lists all Controls by their parent Catalog.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.controls.list

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

UpdateControl

rpc UpdateControl(UpdateControlRequest) returns (Control)

Updates a Control.

Control cannot be set to a different oneof field, if so an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned. If the Control to update does not exist, a NOT_FOUND error is returned.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.controls.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

GenerativeQuestionService

Service for managing LLM generated questions in search serving.

ModelService

Service for performing CRUD operations on models. Recommendation models contain all the metadata necessary to generate a set of models for the Predict() API. A model is queried indirectly via a ServingConfig, which associates a model with a given Placement (e.g. Frequently Bought Together on Home Page).

This service allows you to do the following:

  • Initiate training of a model.
  • Pause training of an existing model.
  • List all the available models along with their metadata.
  • Control their tuning schedule.
CreateModel

rpc CreateModel(CreateModelRequest) returns (Operation)

Creates a new model.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.models.create

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

DeleteModel

rpc DeleteModel(DeleteModelRequest) returns (Empty)

Deletes an existing model.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.models.delete

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

GetModel

rpc GetModel(GetModelRequest) returns (Model)

Gets a model.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.models.get

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

ListModels

rpc ListModels(ListModelsRequest) returns (ListModelsResponse)

Lists all the models linked to this event store.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.models.list

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

PauseModel

rpc PauseModel(PauseModelRequest) returns (Model)

Pauses the training of an existing model.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.models.pause

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

ResumeModel

rpc ResumeModel(ResumeModelRequest) returns (Model)

Resumes the training of an existing model.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.models.resume

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

TuneModel

rpc TuneModel(TuneModelRequest) returns (Operation)

Tunes an existing model.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.models.tune

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

UpdateModel

rpc UpdateModel(UpdateModelRequest) returns (Model)

Update of model metadata. Only fields that currently can be updated are: filtering_option and periodic_tuning_state. If other values are provided, this API method ignores them.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.models.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

PredictionService

Service for making recommendation prediction.

Predict

rpc Predict(PredictRequest) returns (PredictResponse)

Makes a recommendation prediction.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires one of the following IAM permissions on the placement resource, depending on the resource type:

  • retail.placements.predict
  • retail.servingConfigs.predict

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

ProductService

Service for ingesting Product information of the customer's website.

AddFulfillmentPlaces

rpc AddFulfillmentPlaces(AddFulfillmentPlacesRequest) returns (Operation)

We recommend that you use the ProductService.AddLocalInventories method instead of the ProductService.AddFulfillmentPlaces method. ProductService.AddLocalInventories achieves the same results but provides more fine-grained control over ingesting local inventory data.

Incrementally adds place IDs to Product.fulfillment_info.place_ids.

This process is asynchronous and does not require the Product to exist before updating fulfillment information. If the request is valid, the update will be enqueued and processed downstream. As a consequence, when a response is returned, the added place IDs are not immediately manifested in the Product queried by ProductService.GetProduct or ProductService.ListProducts.

The returned Operations will be obsolete after 1 day, and GetOperation API will return NOT_FOUND afterwards.

If conflicting updates are issued, the Operations associated with the stale updates will not be marked as done until being obsolete.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the product resource:

  • retail.products.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

AddLocalInventories

rpc AddLocalInventories(AddLocalInventoriesRequest) returns (Operation)

Updates local inventory information for a Product at a list of places, while respecting the last update timestamps of each inventory field.

This process is asynchronous and does not require the Product to exist before updating inventory information. If the request is valid, the update will be enqueued and processed downstream. As a consequence, when a response is returned, updates are not immediately manifested in the Product queried by ProductService.GetProduct or ProductService.ListProducts.

Local inventory information can only be modified using this method. ProductService.CreateProduct and ProductService.UpdateProduct has no effect on local inventories.

The returned Operations will be obsolete after 1 day, and GetOperation API will return NOT_FOUND afterwards.

If conflicting updates are issued, the Operations associated with the stale updates will not be marked as done until being obsolete.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the product resource:

  • retail.products.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

CreateProduct

rpc CreateProduct(CreateProductRequest) returns (Product)

Creates a Product.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.products.create

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

DeleteProduct

rpc DeleteProduct(DeleteProductRequest) returns (Empty)

Deletes a Product.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.products.delete

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

GetProduct

rpc GetProduct(GetProductRequest) returns (Product)

Gets a Product.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.products.get

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

ImportProducts

rpc ImportProducts(ImportProductsRequest) returns (Operation)

Bulk import of multiple Products.

Request processing may be synchronous. Non-existing items are created.

Note that it is possible for a subset of the Products to be successfully updated.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.products.import

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

ListProducts

rpc ListProducts(ListProductsRequest) returns (ListProductsResponse)

Gets a list of Products.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.products.list

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

PurgeProducts

rpc PurgeProducts(PurgeProductsRequest) returns (Operation)

Permanently deletes all selected Products under a branch.

This process is asynchronous. If the request is valid, the removal will be enqueued and processed offline. Depending on the number of Products, this operation could take hours to complete. Before the operation completes, some Products may still be returned by ProductService.GetProduct or ProductService.ListProducts.

Depending on the number of Products, this operation could take hours to complete. To get a sample of Products that would be deleted, set PurgeProductsRequest.force to false.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.products.purge

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

RemoveFulfillmentPlaces

rpc RemoveFulfillmentPlaces(RemoveFulfillmentPlacesRequest) returns (Operation)

We recommend that you use the ProductService.RemoveLocalInventories method instead of the ProductService.RemoveFulfillmentPlaces method. ProductService.RemoveLocalInventories achieves the same results but provides more fine-grained control over ingesting local inventory data.

Incrementally removes place IDs from a Product.fulfillment_info.place_ids.

This process is asynchronous and does not require the Product to exist before updating fulfillment information. If the request is valid, the update will be enqueued and processed downstream. As a consequence, when a response is returned, the removed place IDs are not immediately manifested in the Product queried by ProductService.GetProduct or ProductService.ListProducts.

The returned Operations will be obsolete after 1 day, and GetOperation API will return NOT_FOUND afterwards.

If conflicting updates are issued, the Operations associated with the stale updates will not be marked as done until being obsolete.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the product resource:

  • retail.products.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

RemoveLocalInventories

rpc RemoveLocalInventories(RemoveLocalInventoriesRequest) returns (Operation)

Remove local inventory information for a Product at a list of places at a removal timestamp.

This process is asynchronous. If the request is valid, the removal will be enqueued and processed downstream. As a consequence, when a response is returned, removals are not immediately manifested in the Product queried by ProductService.GetProduct or ProductService.ListProducts.

Local inventory information can only be removed using this method. ProductService.CreateProduct and ProductService.UpdateProduct has no effect on local inventories.

The returned Operations will be obsolete after 1 day, and GetOperation API will return NOT_FOUND afterwards.

If conflicting updates are issued, the Operations associated with the stale updates will not be marked as done until being obsolete.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the product resource:

  • retail.products.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

SetInventory

rpc SetInventory(SetInventoryRequest) returns (Operation)

Updates inventory information for a Product while respecting the last update timestamps of each inventory field.

This process is asynchronous and does not require the Product to exist before updating fulfillment information. If the request is valid, the update is enqueued and processed downstream. As a consequence, when a response is returned, updates are not immediately manifested in the Product queried by ProductService.GetProduct or ProductService.ListProducts.

When inventory is updated with ProductService.CreateProduct and ProductService.UpdateProduct, the specified inventory field value(s) overwrite any existing value(s) while ignoring the last update time for this field. Furthermore, the last update times for the specified inventory fields are overwritten by the times of the ProductService.CreateProduct or ProductService.UpdateProduct request.

If no inventory fields are set in CreateProductRequest.product, then any pre-existing inventory information for this product is used.

If no inventory fields are set in SetInventoryRequest.set_mask, then any existing inventory information is preserved.

Pre-existing inventory information can only be updated with ProductService.SetInventory, ProductService.AddFulfillmentPlaces, and ProductService.RemoveFulfillmentPlaces.

The returned Operations is obsolete after one day, and the GetOperation API returns NOT_FOUND afterwards.

If conflicting updates are issued, the Operations associated with the stale updates are not marked as done until they are obsolete.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.products.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

UpdateProduct

rpc UpdateProduct(UpdateProductRequest) returns (Product)

Updates a Product.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.products.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

SearchService

Service for search.

This feature is only available for users who have Retail Search enabled. Enable Retail Search on Cloud Console before using this feature.

Search

rpc Search(SearchRequest) returns (SearchResponse)

Performs a search.

This feature is only available for users who have Retail Search enabled. Enable Retail Search on Cloud Console before using this feature.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires one of the following IAM permissions on the placement resource, depending on the resource type:

  • retail.placements.search
  • retail.servingConfigs.search

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

ServingConfigService

Service for modifying ServingConfig.

AddControl

rpc AddControl(AddControlRequest) returns (ServingConfig)

Enables a Control on the specified ServingConfig. The control is added in the last position of the list of controls it belongs to (e.g. if it's a facet spec control it will be applied in the last position of servingConfig.facetSpecIds) Returns a ALREADY_EXISTS error if the control has already been applied. Returns a FAILED_PRECONDITION error if the addition could exceed maximum number of control allowed for that type of control.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the servingConfig resource:

  • retail.servingConfigs.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

CreateServingConfig

rpc CreateServingConfig(CreateServingConfigRequest) returns (ServingConfig)

Creates a ServingConfig.

A maximum of 100 ServingConfigs are allowed in a Catalog, otherwise a FAILED_PRECONDITION error is returned.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.servingConfigs.create

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

DeleteServingConfig

rpc DeleteServingConfig(DeleteServingConfigRequest) returns (Empty)

Deletes a ServingConfig.

Returns a NotFound error if the ServingConfig does not exist.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.servingConfigs.delete

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

GetServingConfig

rpc GetServingConfig(GetServingConfigRequest) returns (ServingConfig)

Gets a ServingConfig.

Returns a NotFound error if the ServingConfig does not exist.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.servingConfigs.get

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

ListServingConfigs

rpc ListServingConfigs(ListServingConfigsRequest) returns (ListServingConfigsResponse)

Lists all ServingConfigs linked to this catalog.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.servingConfigs.list

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

RemoveControl

rpc RemoveControl(RemoveControlRequest) returns (ServingConfig)

Disables a Control on the specified ServingConfig. The control is removed from the ServingConfig. Returns a NOT_FOUND error if the Control is not enabled for the ServingConfig.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the servingConfig resource:

  • retail.servingConfigs.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

UpdateServingConfig

rpc UpdateServingConfig(UpdateServingConfigRequest) returns (ServingConfig)

Updates a ServingConfig.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • retail.servingConfigs.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

UserEventService

Service for ingesting end user actions on the customer website.

CollectUserEvent

rpc CollectUserEvent(CollectUserEventRequest) returns (HttpBody)

Writes a single user event from the browser. This uses a GET request to due to browser restriction of POST-ing to a 3rd party domain.

This method is used only by the Retail API JavaScript pixel and Google Tag Manager. Users should not call this method directly.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

ImportUserEvents

rpc ImportUserEvents(ImportUserEventsRequest) returns (Operation)

Bulk import of User events. Request processing might be synchronous. Events that already exist are skipped. Use this method for backfilling historical user events.

Operation.response is of type ImportResponse. Note that it is possible for a subset of the items to be successfully inserted. Operation.metadata is of type ImportMetadata.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.userEvents.import

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

PurgeUserEvents

rpc PurgeUserEvents(PurgeUserEventsRequest) returns (Operation)

Deletes permanently all user events specified by the filter provided. Depending on the number of events specified by the filter, this operation could take hours or days to complete. To test a filter, use the list command first.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.userEvents.purge

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

RejoinUserEvents

rpc RejoinUserEvents(RejoinUserEventsRequest) returns (Operation)

Starts a user-event rejoin operation with latest product catalog. Events are not annotated with detailed product information for products that are missing from the catalog when the user event is ingested. These events are stored as unjoined events with limited usage on training and serving. You can use this method to start a join operation on specified events with the latest version of product catalog. You can also use this method to correct events joined with the wrong product catalog. A rejoin operation can take hours or days to complete.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.userEvents.rejoin

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

WriteUserEvent

rpc WriteUserEvent(WriteUserEventRequest) returns (UserEvent)

Writes a single user event.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

  • retail.userEvents.create

For more information, see the IAM documentation.

AddCatalogAttributeRequest

Request for CatalogService.AddCatalogAttribute method.

Fields
attributes_config

string

Required. Full AttributesConfig resource name. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/attributesConfig

catalog_attribute

CatalogAttribute

Required. The CatalogAttribute to add.

AddControlRequest

Request for AddControl method.

Fields
serving_config

string

Required. The source ServingConfig resource name . Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/servingConfigs/{serving_config_id}

control_id

string

Required. The id of the control to apply. Assumed to be in the same catalog as the serving config - if id is not found a NOT_FOUND error is returned.

AddFulfillmentPlacesMetadata

This type has no fields.

Metadata related to the progress of the AddFulfillmentPlaces operation. Currently empty because there is no meaningful metadata populated from the ProductService.AddFulfillmentPlaces method.

AddFulfillmentPlacesRequest

Request message for ProductService.AddFulfillmentPlaces method.

Fields
product

string

Required. Full resource name of Product, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/branches/default_branch/products/some_product_id.

If the caller does not have permission to access the Product, regardless of whether or not it exists, a PERMISSION_DENIED error is returned.

type

string

Required. The fulfillment type, including commonly used types (such as pickup in store and same day delivery), and custom types.

Supported values:

  • "pickup-in-store"
  • "ship-to-store"
  • "same-day-delivery"
  • "next-day-delivery"
  • "custom-type-1"
  • "custom-type-2"
  • "custom-type-3"
  • "custom-type-4"
  • "custom-type-5"

If this field is set to an invalid value other than these, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

This field directly corresponds to Product.fulfillment_info.type.

place_ids[]

string

Required. The IDs for this type, such as the store IDs for "pickup-in-store" or the region IDs for "same-day-delivery" to be added for this type. Duplicate IDs will be automatically ignored.

At least 1 value is required, and a maximum of 2000 values are allowed. Each value must be a string with a length limit of 10 characters, matching the pattern [a-zA-Z0-9_-]+, such as "store1" or "REGION-2". Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

If the total number of place IDs exceeds 2000 for this type after adding, then the update will be rejected.

add_time

Timestamp

The time when the fulfillment updates are issued, used to prevent out-of-order updates on fulfillment information. If not provided, the internal system time will be used.

allow_missing

bool

If set to true, and the Product is not found, the fulfillment information will still be processed and retained for at most 1 day and processed once the Product is created. If set to false, a NOT_FOUND error is returned if the Product is not found.

AddFulfillmentPlacesResponse

This type has no fields.

Response of the AddFulfillmentPlacesRequest. Currently empty because there is no meaningful response populated from the ProductService.AddFulfillmentPlaces method.

AddLocalInventoriesMetadata

This type has no fields.

Metadata related to the progress of the AddLocalInventories operation. Currently empty because there is no meaningful metadata populated from the ProductService.AddLocalInventories method.

AddLocalInventoriesRequest

Request message for ProductService.AddLocalInventories method.

Fields
product

string

Required. Full resource name of Product, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/branches/default_branch/products/some_product_id.

If the caller does not have permission to access the Product, regardless of whether or not it exists, a PERMISSION_DENIED error is returned.

local_inventories[]

LocalInventory

Required. A list of inventory information at difference places. Each place is identified by its place ID. At most 3000 inventories are allowed per request.

add_mask

FieldMask

Indicates which inventory fields in the provided list of LocalInventory to update. The field is updated to the provided value.

If a field is set while the place does not have a previous local inventory, the local inventory at that store is created.

If a field is set while the value of that field is not provided, the original field value, if it exists, is deleted.

If the mask is not set or set with empty paths, all inventory fields will be updated.

If an unsupported or unknown field is provided, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned and the entire update will be ignored.

add_time

Timestamp

The time when the inventory updates are issued. Used to prevent out-of-order updates on local inventory fields. If not provided, the internal system time will be used.

allow_missing

bool

If set to true, and the Product is not found, the local inventory will still be processed and retained for at most 1 day and processed once the Product is created. If set to false, a NOT_FOUND error is returned if the Product is not found.

AddLocalInventoriesResponse

This type has no fields.

Response of the ProductService.AddLocalInventories API. Currently empty because there is no meaningful response populated from the ProductService.AddLocalInventories method.

AttributeConfigLevel

At which level we offer configuration for attributes.

Enums
ATTRIBUTE_CONFIG_LEVEL_UNSPECIFIED Value used when unset. In this case, server behavior defaults to CATALOG_LEVEL_ATTRIBUTE_CONFIG.
PRODUCT_LEVEL_ATTRIBUTE_CONFIG At this level, we honor the attribute configurations set in Product.attributes.
CATALOG_LEVEL_ATTRIBUTE_CONFIG At this level, we honor the attribute configurations set in [CatalogConfig.attribute_configs][].

AttributesConfig

Catalog level attribute config.

Fields
name

string

Required. Immutable. The fully qualified resource name of the attribute config. Format: projects/*/locations/*/catalogs/*/attributesConfig

catalog_attributes

map<string, CatalogAttribute>

Enable attribute(s) config at catalog level. For example, indexable, dynamic_facetable, or searchable for each attribute.

The key is catalog attribute's name. For example: color, brands, attributes.custom_attribute, such as attributes.xyz.

The maximum number of catalog attributes allowed in a request is 1000.

attribute_config_level

AttributeConfigLevel

Output only. The AttributeConfigLevel used for this catalog.

Audience

An intended audience of the Product for whom it's sold.

Fields
genders[]

string

The genders of the audience. Strongly encouraged to use the standard values: "male", "female", "unisex".

At most 5 values are allowed. Each value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Google Merchant Center property gender. Schema.org property Product.audience.suggestedGender.

age_groups[]

string

The age groups of the audience. Strongly encouraged to use the standard values: "newborn" (up to 3 months old), "infant" (3–12 months old), "toddler" (1–5 years old), "kids" (5–13 years old), "adult" (typically teens or older).

At most 5 values are allowed. Each value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Google Merchant Center property age_group. Schema.org property Product.audience.suggestedMinAge and Product.audience.suggestedMaxAge.

BigQueryOutputResult

A BigQuery output result.

Fields
dataset_id

string

The ID of a BigQuery Dataset.

table_id

string

The ID of a BigQuery Table.

BigQuerySource

BigQuery source import data from.

Fields
project_id

string

The project ID (can be project # or ID) that the BigQuery source is in with a length limit of 128 characters. If not specified, inherits the project ID from the parent request.

dataset_id

string

Required. The BigQuery data set to copy the data from with a length limit of 1,024 characters.

table_id

string

Required. The BigQuery table to copy the data from with a length limit of 1,024 characters.

gcs_staging_dir

string

Intermediate Cloud Storage directory used for the import with a length limit of 2,000 characters. Can be specified if one wants to have the BigQuery export to a specific Cloud Storage directory.

data_schema

string

The schema to use when parsing the data from the source.

Supported values for product imports:

Supported values for user events imports:

Supported values for autocomplete imports:

  • suggestions (default): One JSON completion suggestion per line.
  • denylist: One JSON deny suggestion per line.
  • allowlist: One JSON allow suggestion per line.
Union field partition. BigQuery table partition info. Leave this empty if the BigQuery table is not partitioned. partition can be only one of the following:
partition_date

Date

BigQuery time partitioned table's _PARTITIONDATE in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Only supported in ImportProductsRequest.

Catalog

The catalog configuration.

Fields
name

string

Required. Immutable. The fully qualified resource name of the catalog.

display_name

string

Required. Immutable. The catalog display name.

This field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

product_level_config

ProductLevelConfig

Required. The product level configuration.

CatalogAttribute

Catalog level attribute config for an attribute. For example, if customers want to enable/disable facet for a specific attribute.

Fields
key

string

Required. Attribute name. For example: color, brands, attributes.custom_attribute, such as attributes.xyz. To be indexable, the attribute name can contain only alpha-numeric characters and underscores. For example, an attribute named attributes.abc_xyz can be indexed, but an attribute named attributes.abc-xyz cannot be indexed.

If the attribute key starts with attributes., then the attribute is a custom attribute. Attributes such as brands, patterns, and title are built-in and called system attributes.

in_use

bool

Output only. Indicates whether this attribute has been used by any products. True if at least one Product is using this attribute in Product.attributes. Otherwise, this field is False.

CatalogAttribute can be pre-loaded by using CatalogService.AddCatalogAttribute, [CatalogService.ImportCatalogAttributes][], or CatalogService.UpdateAttributesConfig APIs. This field is False for pre-loaded CatalogAttributes.

Only pre-loaded catalog attributes that are neither in use by products nor predefined can be deleted. Catalog attributes that are either in use by products or are predefined attributes cannot be deleted; however, their configuration properties will reset to default values upon removal request.

After catalog changes, it takes about 10 minutes for this field to update.

type

AttributeType

Output only. The type of this attribute. This is derived from the attribute in Product.attributes.

indexable_option

IndexableOption

When AttributesConfig.attribute_config_level is CATALOG_LEVEL_ATTRIBUTE_CONFIG, if INDEXABLE_ENABLED attribute values are indexed so that it can be filtered, faceted, or boosted in SearchService.Search.

Must be specified when AttributesConfig.attribute_config_level is CATALOG_LEVEL_ATTRIBUTE_CONFIG, otherwise throws INVALID_FORMAT error.

dynamic_facetable_option

DynamicFacetableOption

If DYNAMIC_FACETABLE_ENABLED, attribute values are available for dynamic facet. Could only be DYNAMIC_FACETABLE_DISABLED if CatalogAttribute.indexable_option is INDEXABLE_DISABLED. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Must be specified, otherwise throws INVALID_FORMAT error.

searchable_option

SearchableOption

When AttributesConfig.attribute_config_level is CATALOG_LEVEL_ATTRIBUTE_CONFIG, if SEARCHABLE_ENABLED, attribute values are searchable by text queries in SearchService.Search.

If SEARCHABLE_ENABLED but attribute type is numerical, attribute values will not be searchable by text queries in SearchService.Search, as there are no text values associated to numerical attributes.

Must be specified, when AttributesConfig.attribute_config_level is CATALOG_LEVEL_ATTRIBUTE_CONFIG, otherwise throws INVALID_FORMAT error.

exact_searchable_option

ExactSearchableOption

If EXACT_SEARCHABLE_ENABLED, attribute values will be exact searchable. This property only applies to textual custom attributes and requires indexable set to enabled to enable exact-searchable. If unset, the server behavior defaults to EXACT_SEARCHABLE_DISABLED.

retrievable_option

RetrievableOption

If RETRIEVABLE_ENABLED, attribute values are retrievable in the search results. If unset, the server behavior defaults to RETRIEVABLE_DISABLED.

facet_config

FacetConfig

Contains facet options.

AttributeType

The type of an attribute.

Enums
UNKNOWN

The type of the attribute is unknown.

Used when type cannot be derived from attribute that is not in_use.

TEXTUAL Textual attribute.
NUMERICAL Numerical attribute.

DynamicFacetableOption

The status of the dynamic facetable option of a catalog attribute.

Enums
DYNAMIC_FACETABLE_OPTION_UNSPECIFIED Value used when unset.
DYNAMIC_FACETABLE_ENABLED Dynamic facetable option enabled for an attribute.
DYNAMIC_FACETABLE_DISABLED Dynamic facetable option disabled for an attribute.

ExactSearchableOption

The status of the exact-searchable option of a catalog attribute.

Enums
EXACT_SEARCHABLE_OPTION_UNSPECIFIED Value used when unset.
EXACT_SEARCHABLE_ENABLED Exact searchable option enabled for an attribute.
EXACT_SEARCHABLE_DISABLED Exact searchable option disabled for an attribute.

FacetConfig

Possible options for the facet that corresponds to the current attribute config.

Fields
facet_intervals[]

Interval

If you don't set the facet SearchRequest.FacetSpec.FacetKey.intervals in the request to a numerical attribute, then we use the computed intervals with rounded bounds obtained from all its product numerical attribute values. The computed intervals might not be ideal for some attributes. Therefore, we give you the option to overwrite them with the facet_intervals field. The maximum of facet intervals per CatalogAttribute is 40. Each interval must have a lower bound or an upper bound. If both bounds are provided, then the lower bound must be smaller or equal than the upper bound.

ignored_facet_values[]

IgnoredFacetValues

Each instance represents a list of attribute values to ignore as facet values for a specific time range. The maximum number of instances per CatalogAttribute is 25.

merged_facet_values[]

MergedFacetValue

Each instance replaces a list of facet values by a merged facet value. If a facet value is not in any list, then it will stay the same. To avoid conflicts, only paths of length 1 are accepted. In other words, if "dark_blue" merged into "BLUE", then the latter can't merge into "blues" because this would create a path of length 2. The maximum number of instances of MergedFacetValue per CatalogAttribute is 100. This feature is available only for textual custom attributes.

merged_facet

MergedFacet

Use this field only if you want to merge a facet key into another facet key.

rerank_config

RerankConfig

Set this field only if you want to rerank based on facet values engaged by the user for the current key. This option is only possible for custom facetable textual keys.

IgnoredFacetValues

Facet values to ignore on facets during the specified time range for the given SearchResponse.Facet.key attribute.

Fields
values[]

string

List of facet values to ignore for the following time range. The facet values are the same as the attribute values. There is a limit of 10 values per instance of IgnoredFacetValues. Each value can have at most 128 characters.

start_time

Timestamp

Time range for the current list of facet values to ignore. If multiple time ranges are specified for an facet value for the current attribute, consider all of them. If both are empty, ignore always. If start time and end time are set, then start time must be before end time. If start time is not empty and end time is empty, then will ignore these facet values after the start time.

end_time

Timestamp

If start time is empty and end time is not empty, then ignore these facet values before end time.

MergedFacet

The current facet key (i.e. attribute config) maps into the merged_facet_key. A facet key can have at most one child. The current facet key and the merged facet key need both to be textual custom attributes or both numerical custom attributes (same type).

Fields
merged_facet_key

string

The merged facet key should be a valid facet key that is different than the facet key of the current catalog attribute. We refer this is merged facet key as the child of the current catalog attribute. This merged facet key can't be a parent of another facet key (i.e. no directed path of length 2). This merged facet key needs to be either a textual custom attribute or a numerical custom attribute.

MergedFacetValue

Replaces a set of textual facet values by the same (possibly different) merged facet value. Each facet value should appear at most once as a value per CatalogAttribute. This feature is available only for textual custom attributes.

Fields
values[]

string

All the facet values that are replaces by the same merged_value that follows. The maximum number of values per MergedFacetValue is 25. Each value can have up to 128 characters.

merged_value

string

All the previous values are replaced by this merged facet value. This merged_value must be non-empty and can have up to 128 characters.

RerankConfig

Options to rerank based on facet values engaged by the user for the current key. That key needs to be a custom textual key and facetable. To use this control, you also need to pass all the facet keys engaged by the user in the request using the field [SearchRequest.FacetSpec]. In particular, if you don't pass the facet keys engaged that you want to rerank on, this control won't be effective. Moreover, to obtain better results, the facet values that you want to rerank on should be close to English (ideally made of words, underscores, and spaces).

Fields
rerank_facet

bool

If set to true, then we also rerank the dynamic facets based on the facet values engaged by the user for the current attribute key during serving.

facet_values[]

string

If empty, rerank on all facet values for the current key. Otherwise, will rerank on the facet values from this list only.

IndexableOption

The status of the indexable option of a catalog attribute.

Enums
INDEXABLE_OPTION_UNSPECIFIED Value used when unset.
INDEXABLE_ENABLED Indexable option enabled for an attribute.
INDEXABLE_DISABLED Indexable option disabled for an attribute.

RetrievableOption

The status of the retrievable option of a catalog attribute.

Enums
RETRIEVABLE_OPTION_UNSPECIFIED Value used when unset.
RETRIEVABLE_ENABLED Retrievable option enabled for an attribute.
RETRIEVABLE_DISABLED Retrievable option disabled for an attribute.

SearchableOption

The status of the searchable option of a catalog attribute.

Enums
SEARCHABLE_OPTION_UNSPECIFIED Value used when unset.
SEARCHABLE_ENABLED Searchable option enabled for an attribute.
SEARCHABLE_DISABLED Searchable option disabled for an attribute.

CollectUserEventRequest

Request message for CollectUserEvent method.

Fields
parent

string

Required. The parent catalog name, such as projects/1234/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog.

user_event

string

Required. URL encoded UserEvent proto with a length limit of 2,000,000 characters.

uri

string

The URL including cgi-parameters but excluding the hash fragment with a length limit of 5,000 characters. This is often more useful than the referer URL, because many browsers only send the domain for 3rd party requests.

ets

int64

The event timestamp in milliseconds. This prevents browser caching of otherwise identical get requests. The name is abbreviated to reduce the payload bytes.

raw_json

string

An arbitrary serialized JSON string that contains necessary information that can comprise a user event. When this field is specified, the user_event field will be ignored. Note: line-delimited JSON is not supported, a single JSON only.

Union field conversion_rule. The rule that can convert the raw_json to a user event. It is needed only when the raw_json is set. conversion_rule can be only one of the following:
prebuilt_rule

string

The prebuilt rule name that can convert a specific type of raw_json. For example: "ga4_bq" rule for the GA4 user event schema.

ColorInfo

The color information of a Product.

Fields
color_families[]

string

The standard color families. Strongly recommended to use the following standard color groups: "Red", "Pink", "Orange", "Yellow", "Purple", "Green", "Cyan", "Blue", "Brown", "White", "Gray", "Black" and "Mixed". Normally it is expected to have only 1 color family. May consider using single "Mixed" instead of multiple values.

A maximum of 5 values are allowed. Each value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Google Merchant Center property color. Schema.org property Product.color.

colors[]

string

The color display names, which may be different from standard color family names, such as the color aliases used in the website frontend. Normally it is expected to have only 1 color. May consider using single "Mixed" instead of multiple values.

A maximum of 75 colors are allowed. Each value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Google Merchant Center property color. Schema.org property Product.color.

CompleteQueryRequest

Autocomplete parameters.

Fields
catalog

string

Required. Catalog for which the completion is performed.

Full resource name of catalog, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog.

query

string

Required. The query used to generate suggestions.

The maximum number of allowed characters is 255.

visitor_id

string

Required field. A unique identifier for tracking visitors. For example, this could be implemented with an HTTP cookie, which should be able to uniquely identify a visitor on a single device. This unique identifier should not change if the visitor logs in or out of the website.

The field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

language_codes[]

string

Note that this field applies for user-data dataset only. For requests with cloud-retail dataset, setting this field has no effect.

The language filters applied to the output suggestions. If set, it should contain the language of the query. If not set, suggestions are returned without considering language restrictions. This is the BCP-47 language code, such as "en-US" or "sr-Latn". For more information, see Tags for Identifying Languages. The maximum number of language codes is 3.

device_type

string

The device type context for completion suggestions. We recommend that you leave this field empty.

It can apply different suggestions on different device types, e.g. DESKTOP, MOBILE. If it is empty, the suggestions are across all device types.

Supported formats:

  • UNKNOWN_DEVICE_TYPE

  • DESKTOP

  • MOBILE

  • A customized string starts with OTHER_, e.g. OTHER_IPHONE.

dataset

string

Determines which dataset to use for fetching completion. "user-data" will use the imported dataset through CompletionService.ImportCompletionData. "cloud-retail" will use the dataset generated by cloud retail based on user events. If leave empty, it will use the "user-data".

Current supported values:

  • user-data

  • cloud-retail: This option requires enabling auto-learning function first. See guidelines.

max_suggestions

int32

Completion max suggestions. If left unset or set to 0, then will fallback to the configured value CompletionConfig.max_suggestions.

The maximum allowed max suggestions is 20. If it is set higher, it will be capped by 20.

enable_attribute_suggestions

bool

If true, attribute suggestions are enabled and provided in the response.

This field is only available for the "cloud-retail" dataset.

entity

string

The entity for customers who run multiple entities, domains, sites, or regions, for example, Google US, Google Ads, Waymo, google.com, youtube.com, etc. If this is set, it must be an exact match with UserEvent.entity to get per-entity autocomplete results.

CompleteQueryResponse

Response of the autocomplete query.

Fields
completion_results[]

CompletionResult

Results of the matching suggestions. The result list is ordered and the first result is top suggestion.

attribution_token

string

A unique complete token. This should be included in the UserEvent.completion_detail for search events resulting from this completion, which enables accurate attribution of complete model performance.

recent_search_results[]
(deprecated)

RecentSearchResult

Deprecated. Matched recent searches of this user. The maximum number of recent searches is 10. This field is a restricted feature. If you want to enable it, contact Retail Search support.

This feature is only available when CompleteQueryRequest.visitor_id field is set and UserEvent is imported. The recent searches satisfy the follow rules:

  • They are ordered from latest to oldest.

  • They are matched with CompleteQueryRequest.query case insensitively.

  • They are transformed to lower case.

  • They are UTF-8 safe.

Recent searches are deduplicated. More recent searches will be reserved when duplication happens.

attribute_results

map<string, AttributeResult>

A map of matched attribute suggestions. This field is only available for "cloud-retail" dataset.

Current supported keys:

  • brands

  • categories

AttributeResult

Resource that represents attribute results. The list of suggestions for the attribute.

Fields
suggestions[]

string

CompletionResult

Resource that represents completion results.

Fields
suggestion

string

The suggestion for the query.

attributes

map<string, CustomAttribute>

Custom attributes for the suggestion term.

  • For "user-data", the attributes are additional custom attributes ingested through BigQuery.

  • For "cloud-retail", the attributes are product attributes generated by Cloud Retail. It requires UserEvent.product_details is imported properly.

RecentSearchResult

Deprecated: Recent search of this user.

Fields

CompletionConfig

Catalog level autocomplete config for customers to customize autocomplete feature's settings.

Fields
name

string

Required. Immutable. Fully qualified name projects/*/locations/*/catalogs/*/completionConfig

matching_order

string

Specifies the matching order for autocomplete suggestions, e.g., a query consisting of 'sh' with 'out-of-order' specified would suggest "women's shoes", whereas a query of 'red s' with 'exact-prefix' specified would suggest "red shoes". Currently supported values:

  • 'out-of-order'
  • 'exact-prefix'

Default value: 'exact-prefix'.

max_suggestions

int32

The maximum number of autocomplete suggestions returned per term. Default value is 20. If left unset or set to 0, then will fallback to default value.

Value range is 1 to 20.

min_prefix_length

int32

The minimum number of characters needed to be typed in order to get suggestions. Default value is 2. If left unset or set to 0, then will fallback to default value.

Value range is 1 to 20.

auto_learning

bool

If set to true, the auto learning function is enabled. Auto learning uses user data to generate suggestions using ML techniques. Default value is false. Only after enabling auto learning can users use cloud-retail data in CompleteQueryRequest.

suggestions_input_config

CompletionDataInputConfig

Output only. The source data for the latest import of the autocomplete suggestion phrases.

last_suggestions_import_operation

string

Output only. Name of the LRO corresponding to the latest suggestion terms list import.

Can use GetOperation API method to retrieve the latest state of the Long Running Operation.

denylist_input_config

CompletionDataInputConfig

Output only. The source data for the latest import of the autocomplete denylist phrases.

last_denylist_import_operation

string

Output only. Name of the LRO corresponding to the latest denylist import.

Can use GetOperation API to retrieve the latest state of the Long Running Operation.

allowlist_input_config

CompletionDataInputConfig

Output only. The source data for the latest import of the autocomplete allowlist phrases.

last_allowlist_import_operation

string

Output only. Name of the LRO corresponding to the latest allowlist import.

Can use GetOperation API to retrieve the latest state of the Long Running Operation.

CompletionDataInputConfig

The input config source for completion data.

Fields

Union field source. The source of the input.

Supported BigQuerySource.data_schema values for suggestions imports:

  • suggestions (default): One JSON completion suggestion per line.
  • denylist: One JSON deny suggestion per line.
  • allowlist: One JSON allow suggestion per line. source can be only one of the following:
big_query_source

BigQuerySource

Required. BigQuery input source.

Add the IAM permission "BigQuery Data Viewer" for cloud-retail-customer-data-access@system.gserviceaccount.com before using this feature otherwise an error is thrown.

CompletionDetail

Detailed completion information including completion attribution token and clicked completion info.

Fields
completion_attribution_token

string

Completion attribution token in CompleteQueryResponse.attribution_token.

selected_suggestion

string

End user selected CompleteQueryResponse.CompletionResult.suggestion.

selected_position

int32

End user selected CompleteQueryResponse.CompletionResult.suggestion position, starting from 0.

Condition

Metadata that is used to define a condition that triggers an action. A valid condition must specify at least one of 'query_terms' or 'products_filter'. If multiple fields are specified, the condition is met if all the fields are satisfied e.g. if a set of query terms and product_filter are set, then only items matching the product_filter for requests with a query matching the query terms wil get boosted.

Fields
query_terms[]

QueryTerm

A list (up to 10 entries) of terms to match the query on. If not specified, match all queries. If many query terms are specified, the condition is matched if any of the terms is a match (i.e. using the OR operator).

active_time_range[]

TimeRange

Range of time(s) specifying when Condition is active. Condition true if any time range matches.

page_categories[]

string

Used to support browse uses cases. A list (up to 10 entries) of categories or departments. The format should be the same as UserEvent.page_categories;

QueryTerm

Query terms that we want to match on.

Fields
value

string

The value of the term to match on. Value cannot be empty. Value can have at most 3 terms if specified as a partial match. Each space separated string is considered as one term. For example, "a b c" is 3 terms and allowed, but " a b c d" is 4 terms and not allowed for a partial match.

full_match

bool

Whether this is supposed to be a full or partial match.

TimeRange

Used for time-dependent conditions. Example: Want to have rule applied for week long sale.

Fields
start_time

Timestamp

Start of time range. Range is inclusive.

end_time

Timestamp

End of time range. Range is inclusive.

Control

Configures dynamic metadata that can be linked to a ServingConfig and affect search or recommendation results at serving time.

Fields
name

string

Immutable. Fully qualified name projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/*/controls/*

display_name

string

Required. The human readable control display name. Used in Retail UI.

This field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is thrown.

associated_serving_config_ids[]

string

Output only. List of serving config ids that are associated with this control in the same Catalog.

Note the association is managed via the ServingConfig, this is an output only denormalized view.

solution_types[]

SolutionType

Required. Immutable. The solution types that the control is used for. Currently we support setting only one type of solution at creation time.

Only SOLUTION_TYPE_SEARCH value is supported at the moment. If no solution type is provided at creation time, will default to SOLUTION_TYPE_SEARCH.

search_solution_use_case[]

SearchSolutionUseCase

Specifies the use case for the control. Affects what condition fields can be set. Only settable by search controls. Will default to SEARCH_SOLUTION_USE_CASE_SEARCH if not specified. Currently only allow one search_solution_use_case per control.

Union field control. The behavior/type of the control

A behavior/type must be specified on creation. Type cannot be changed once specified (e.g. A Rule control will always be a Rule control.). An INVALID_ARGUMENT will be returned if either condition is violated. control can be only one of the following:

rule

Rule

A rule control - a condition-action pair. Enacts a set action when the condition is triggered. For example: Boost "gShoe" when query full matches "Running Shoes".

CreateControlRequest

Request for CreateControl method.

Fields
parent

string

Required. Full resource name of parent catalog. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}

control

Control

Required. The Control to create.

control_id

string

Required. The ID to use for the Control, which will become the final component of the Control's resource name.

This value should be 4-63 characters, and valid characters are /[a-z][0-9]-_/.

CreateModelMetadata

Metadata associated with a create operation.

Fields
model

string

The resource name of the model that this create applies to. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/models/{model_id}

CreateModelRequest

Request for creating a model.

Fields
parent

string

Required. The parent resource under which to create the model. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}

model

Model

Required. The payload of the Model to create.

dry_run

bool

Optional. Whether to run a dry run to validate the request (without actually creating the model).

CreateProductRequest

Request message for ProductService.CreateProduct method.

Fields
parent

string

Required. The parent catalog resource name, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/branches/default_branch.

product

Product

Required. The Product to create.

product_id

string

Required. The ID to use for the Product, which will become the final component of the Product.name.

If the caller does not have permission to create the Product, regardless of whether or not it exists, a PERMISSION_DENIED error is returned.

This field must be unique among all Products with the same parent. Otherwise, an ALREADY_EXISTS error is returned.

This field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

CreateServingConfigRequest

Request for CreateServingConfig method.

Fields
parent

string

Required. Full resource name of parent. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}

serving_config

ServingConfig

Required. The ServingConfig to create.

serving_config_id

string

Required. The ID to use for the ServingConfig, which will become the final component of the ServingConfig's resource name.

This value should be 4-63 characters, and valid characters are /[a-z][0-9]-_/.

CustomAttribute

A custom attribute that is not explicitly modeled in Product.

Fields
text[]

string

The textual values of this custom attribute. For example, ["yellow", "green"] when the key is "color".

Empty string is not allowed. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Exactly one of text or numbers should be set. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

numbers[]

double

The numerical values of this custom attribute. For example, [2.3, 15.4] when the key is "lengths_cm".

Exactly one of text or numbers should be set. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

searchable
(deprecated)

bool

This field is normally ignored unless AttributesConfig.attribute_config_level of the Catalog is set to the deprecated 'PRODUCT_LEVEL_ATTRIBUTE_CONFIG' mode. For information about product-level attribute configuration, see Configuration modes. If true, custom attribute values are searchable by text queries in SearchService.Search.

This field is ignored in a UserEvent.

Only set if type text is set. Otherwise, a INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

indexable
(deprecated)

bool

This field is normally ignored unless AttributesConfig.attribute_config_level of the Catalog is set to the deprecated 'PRODUCT_LEVEL_ATTRIBUTE_CONFIG' mode. For information about product-level attribute configuration, see Configuration modes. If true, custom attribute values are indexed, so that they can be filtered, faceted or boosted in SearchService.Search.

This field is ignored in a UserEvent.

See SearchRequest.filter, SearchRequest.facet_specs and SearchRequest.boost_spec for more details.

DeleteControlRequest

Request for DeleteControl method.

Fields
name

string

Required. The resource name of the Control to delete. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/controls/{control_id}

DeleteModelRequest

Request for deleting a model.

Fields
name

string

Required. The resource name of the Model to delete. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/models/{model_id}

DeleteProductRequest

Request message for ProductService.DeleteProduct method.

Fields
name

string

Required. Full resource name of Product, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/branches/default_branch/products/some_product_id.

If the caller does not have permission to delete the Product, regardless of whether or not it exists, a PERMISSION_DENIED error is returned.

If the Product to delete does not exist, a NOT_FOUND error is returned.

The Product to delete can neither be a Product.Type.COLLECTION Product member nor a Product.Type.PRIMARY Product with more than one variants. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

All inventory information for the named Product will be deleted.

DeleteServingConfigRequest

Request for DeleteServingConfig method.

Fields
name

string

Required. The resource name of the ServingConfig to delete. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/servingConfigs/{serving_config_id}

ExperimentInfo

Metadata for active A/B testing [Experiment][].

Fields
experiment

string

The fully qualified resource name of the experiment that provides the serving config under test, should an active experiment exist. For example: projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/experiments/experiment_id

Union field experiment_metadata. Information associated with the specific experiment entity being recorded. experiment_metadata can be only one of the following:
serving_config_experiment

ServingConfigExperiment

A/B test between existing Cloud Retail Search ServingConfigs.

ServingConfigExperiment

Metadata for active serving config A/B tests.

Fields
original_serving_config

string

The fully qualified resource name of the original SearchRequest.placement in the search request prior to reassignment by experiment API. For example: projects/*/locations/*/catalogs/*/servingConfigs/*.

experiment_serving_config

string

The fully qualified resource name of the serving config [Experiment.VariantArm.serving_config_id][] responsible for generating the search response. For example: projects/*/locations/*/catalogs/*/servingConfigs/*.

ExportAnalyticsMetricsRequest

Request message for the ExportAnalyticsMetrics method.

Fields
catalog

string

Required. Full resource name of the parent catalog. Expected format: projects/*/locations/*/catalogs/*

output_config

OutputConfig

Required. The output location of the data.

filter

string

A filtering expression to specify restrictions on returned metrics. The expression is a sequence of terms. Each term applies a restriction to the returned metrics. Use this expression to restrict results to a specific time range.

Currently we expect only one types of fields:

  • timestamp: This can be specified twice, once with a less than operator and once with a greater than operator. The timestamp restriction should result in one, contiguous, valid, timestamp range.

Some examples of valid filters expressions:

  • Example 1: timestamp > "2012-04-23T18:25:43.511Z" timestamp < "2012-04-23T18:30:43.511Z"
  • Example 2: timestamp > "2012-04-23T18:25:43.511Z"

ExportAnalyticsMetricsResponse

Response of the ExportAnalyticsMetricsRequest. If the long running operation was successful, then this message is returned by the google.longrunning.Operations.response field if the operation was successful.

Fields
error_samples[]

Status

A sample of errors encountered while processing the request.

errors_config

ExportErrorsConfig

This field is never set.

output_result

OutputResult

Output result indicating where the data were exported to.

ExportErrorsConfig

Configuration of destination for Export related errors.

Fields
Union field destination. Required. Errors destination. destination can be only one of the following:
gcs_prefix

string

Google Cloud Storage path for import errors. This must be an empty, existing Cloud Storage bucket. Export errors will be written to a file in this bucket, one per line, as a JSON-encoded google.rpc.Status message.

ExportMetadata

Metadata related to the progress of the Export operation. This is returned by the google.longrunning.Operation.metadata field.

Fields
create_time

Timestamp

Operation create time.

update_time

Timestamp

Operation last update time. If the operation is done, this is also the finish time.

FulfillmentInfo

Fulfillment information, such as the store IDs for in-store pickup or region IDs for different shipping methods.

Fields
type

string

The fulfillment type, including commonly used types (such as pickup in store and same day delivery), and custom types. Customers have to map custom types to their display names before rendering UI.

Supported values:

  • "pickup-in-store"
  • "ship-to-store"
  • "same-day-delivery"
  • "next-day-delivery"
  • "custom-type-1"
  • "custom-type-2"
  • "custom-type-3"
  • "custom-type-4"
  • "custom-type-5"

If this field is set to an invalid value other than these, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

place_ids[]

string

The IDs for this type, such as the store IDs for FulfillmentInfo.type.pickup-in-store or the region IDs for FulfillmentInfo.type.same-day-delivery.

A maximum of 3000 values are allowed. Each value must be a string with a length limit of 30 characters, matching the pattern [a-zA-Z0-9_-]+, such as "store1" or "REGION-2". Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

GcsOutputResult

A Gcs output result.

Fields
output_uri

string

The uri of Gcs output

GcsSource

Google Cloud Storage location for input content.

Fields
input_uris[]

string

Required. Google Cloud Storage URIs to input files. URI can be up to 2000 characters long. URIs can match the full object path (for example, gs://bucket/directory/object.json) or a pattern matching one or more files, such as gs://bucket/directory/*.json. A request can contain at most 100 files, and each file can be up to 2 GB. See Importing product information for the expected file format and setup instructions.

data_schema

string

The schema to use when parsing the data from the source.

Supported values for product imports:

Supported values for user events imports:

Supported values for control imports:

  • control (default): One JSON Control per line.

Supported values for catalog attribute imports:

GetAttributesConfigRequest

Request for CatalogService.GetAttributesConfig method.

Fields
name

string

Required. Full AttributesConfig resource name. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/attributesConfig

GetCompletionConfigRequest

Request for CatalogService.GetCompletionConfig method.

Fields
name

string

Required. Full CompletionConfig resource name. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/completionConfig

GetControlRequest

Request for GetControl method.

Fields
name

string

Required. The resource name of the Control to get. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/controls/{control_id}

GetDefaultBranchRequest

Request message to show which branch is currently the default branch.

Fields
catalog

string

The parent catalog resource name, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog.

GetDefaultBranchResponse

Response message of CatalogService.GetDefaultBranch.

Fields
branch

string

Full resource name of the branch id currently set as default branch.

set_time

Timestamp

The time when this branch is set to default.

note

string

This corresponds to SetDefaultBranchRequest.note field, when this branch was set as default.

GetModelRequest

Request for getting a model.

Fields
name

string

Required. The resource name of the Model to get. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog}/models/{model_id}

GetProductRequest

Request message for ProductService.GetProduct method.

Fields
name

string

Required. Full resource name of Product, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/branches/default_branch/products/some_product_id.

If the caller does not have permission to access the Product, regardless of whether or not it exists, a PERMISSION_DENIED error is returned.

If the requested Product does not exist, a NOT_FOUND error is returned.

GetServingConfigRequest

Request for GetServingConfig method.

Fields
name

string

Required. The resource name of the ServingConfig to get. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/servingConfigs/{serving_config_id}

Image

Product image. Recommendations AI and Retail Search do not use product images to improve prediction and search results. However, product images can be returned in results, and are shown in prediction or search previews in the console.

Fields
uri

string

Required. URI of the image.

This field must be a valid UTF-8 encoded URI with a length limit of 5,000 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Google Merchant Center property image_link. Schema.org property Product.image.

height

int32

Height of the image in number of pixels.

This field must be nonnegative. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

width

int32

Width of the image in number of pixels.

This field must be nonnegative. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

ImportCompletionDataRequest

Request message for ImportCompletionData methods.

Fields
parent

string

Required. The catalog which the suggestions dataset belongs to.

Format: projects/1234/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog.

input_config

CompletionDataInputConfig

Required. The desired input location of the data.

notification_pubsub_topic

string

Pub/Sub topic for receiving notification. If this field is set, when the import is finished, a notification is sent to specified Pub/Sub topic. The message data is JSON string of a Operation. Format of the Pub/Sub topic is projects/{project}/topics/{topic}.

ImportCompletionDataResponse

Response of the ImportCompletionDataRequest. If the long running operation is done, this message is returned by the google.longrunning.Operations.response field if the operation is successful.

Fields
error_samples[]

Status

A sample of errors encountered while processing the request.

ImportErrorsConfig

Configuration of destination for Import related errors.

Fields
Union field destination. Required. Errors destination. destination can be only one of the following:
gcs_prefix

string

Google Cloud Storage prefix for import errors. This must be an empty, existing Cloud Storage directory. Import errors are written to sharded files in this directory, one per line, as a JSON-encoded google.rpc.Status message.

ImportMetadata

Metadata related to the progress of the Import operation. This is returned by the google.longrunning.Operation.metadata field.

Fields
create_time

Timestamp

Operation create time.

update_time

Timestamp

Operation last update time. If the operation is done, this is also the finish time.

success_count

int64

Count of entries that were processed successfully.

failure_count

int64

Count of entries that encountered errors while processing.

request_id
(deprecated)

string

Deprecated. This field is never set.

notification_pubsub_topic

string

Pub/Sub topic for receiving notification. If this field is set, when the import is finished, a notification is sent to specified Pub/Sub topic. The message data is JSON string of a Operation. Format of the Pub/Sub topic is projects/{project}/topics/{topic}.

ImportProductsRequest

Request message for Import methods.

Fields
parent

string

Required. projects/1234/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/branches/default_branch

If no updateMask is specified, requires products.create permission. If updateMask is specified, requires products.update permission.

request_id
(deprecated)

string

Deprecated. This field has no effect.

input_config

ProductInputConfig

Required. The desired input location of the data.

errors_config

ImportErrorsConfig

The desired location of errors incurred during the Import.

update_mask

FieldMask

Indicates which fields in the provided imported products to update. If not set, all fields are updated. If provided, only the existing product fields are updated. Missing products will not be created.

reconciliation_mode

ReconciliationMode

The mode of reconciliation between existing products and the products to be imported. Defaults to ReconciliationMode.INCREMENTAL.

notification_pubsub_topic

string

Full Pub/Sub topic name for receiving notification. If this field is set, when the import is finished, a notification is sent to specified Pub/Sub topic. The message data is JSON string of a Operation.

Format of the Pub/Sub topic is projects/{project}/topics/{topic}. It has to be within the same project as ImportProductsRequest.parent. Make sure that both cloud-retail-customer-data-access@system.gserviceaccount.com and service-<project number>@gcp-sa-retail.iam.gserviceaccount.com have the pubsub.topics.publish IAM permission on the topic.

Only supported when ImportProductsRequest.reconciliation_mode is set to FULL.

ReconciliationMode

Indicates how imported products are reconciled with the existing products created or imported before.

Enums
RECONCILIATION_MODE_UNSPECIFIED Defaults to INCREMENTAL.
INCREMENTAL Inserts new products or updates existing products.
FULL Calculates diff and replaces the entire product dataset. Existing products may be deleted if they are not present in the source location.

ImportProductsResponse

Response of the ImportProductsRequest. If the long running operation is done, then this message is returned by the google.longrunning.Operations.response field if the operation was successful.

Fields
error_samples[]

Status

A sample of errors encountered while processing the request.

errors_config

ImportErrorsConfig

Echoes the destination for the complete errors in the request if set.

ImportUserEventsRequest

Request message for the ImportUserEvents request.

Fields
parent

string

Required. projects/1234/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog

input_config

UserEventInputConfig

Required. The desired input location of the data.

errors_config

ImportErrorsConfig

The desired location of errors incurred during the Import. Cannot be set for inline user event imports.

ImportUserEventsResponse

Response of the ImportUserEventsRequest. If the long running operation was successful, then this message is returned by the google.longrunning.Operations.response field if the operation was successful.

Fields
error_samples[]

Status

A sample of errors encountered while processing the request.

errors_config

ImportErrorsConfig

Echoes the destination for the complete errors if this field was set in the request.

import_summary

UserEventImportSummary

Aggregated statistics of user event import status.

Interval

A floating point interval.

Fields

Union field min. The lower bound of the interval. If neither of the min fields are set, then the lower bound is negative infinity.

This field must not be larger than max. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned. min can be only one of the following:

minimum

double

Inclusive lower bound.

exclusive_minimum

double

Exclusive lower bound.

Union field max. The upper bound of the interval. If neither of the max fields are set, then the upper bound is positive infinity.

This field must be not smaller than min. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned. max can be only one of the following:

maximum

double

Inclusive upper bound.

exclusive_maximum

double

Exclusive upper bound.

ListCatalogsRequest

Request for CatalogService.ListCatalogs method.

Fields
parent

string

Required. The account resource name with an associated location.

If the caller does not have permission to list Catalogs under this location, regardless of whether or not this location exists, a PERMISSION_DENIED error is returned.

page_size

int32

Maximum number of Catalogs to return. If unspecified, defaults to 50. The maximum allowed value is 1000. Values above 1000 will be coerced to 1000.

If this field is negative, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

page_token

string

A page token ListCatalogsResponse.next_page_token, received from a previous CatalogService.ListCatalogs call. Provide this to retrieve the subsequent page.

When paginating, all other parameters provided to CatalogService.ListCatalogs must match the call that provided the page token. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

ListCatalogsResponse

Response for CatalogService.ListCatalogs method.

Fields
catalogs[]

Catalog

All the customer's Catalogs.

next_page_token

string

A token that can be sent as ListCatalogsRequest.page_token to retrieve the next page. If this field is omitted, there are no subsequent pages.

ListControlsRequest

Request for ListControls method.

Fields
parent

string

Required. The catalog resource name. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}

page_size

int32

Optional. Maximum number of results to return. If unspecified, defaults to 50. Max allowed value is 1000.

page_token

string

Optional. A page token, received from a previous ListControls call. Provide this to retrieve the subsequent page.

filter

string

Optional. A filter to apply on the list results. Supported features:

  • List all the products under the parent branch if filter is unset.
  • List controls that are used in a single ServingConfig: 'serving_config = "boosted_home_page_cvr"'

ListControlsResponse

Response for ListControls method.

Fields
controls[]

Control

All the Controls for a given catalog.

next_page_token

string

Pagination token, if not returned indicates the last page.

ListModelsRequest

Request for listing models associated with a resource.

Fields
parent

string

Required. The parent for which to list models. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}

page_size

int32

Optional. Maximum number of results to return. If unspecified, defaults to 50. Max allowed value is 1000.

page_token

string

Optional. A page token, received from a previous ListModels call. Provide this to retrieve the subsequent page.

ListModelsResponse

Response to a ListModelRequest.

Fields
models[]

Model

List of Models.

next_page_token

string

Pagination token, if not returned indicates the last page.

ListProductsRequest

Request message for ProductService.ListProducts method.

Fields
parent

string

Required. The parent branch resource name, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/branches/0. Use default_branch as the branch ID, to list products under the default branch.

If the caller does not have permission to list Products under this branch, regardless of whether or not this branch exists, a PERMISSION_DENIED error is returned.

page_size

int32

Maximum number of Products to return. If unspecified, defaults to 100. The maximum allowed value is 1000. Values above 1000 will be coerced to 1000.

If this field is negative, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

page_token

string

A page token ListProductsResponse.next_page_token, received from a previous ProductService.ListProducts call. Provide this to retrieve the subsequent page.

When paginating, all other parameters provided to ProductService.ListProducts must match the call that provided the page token. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

filter

string

A filter to apply on the list results. Supported features:

If the field is unrecognizable, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

If the specified Product.Type.PRIMARY Product or Product.Type.COLLECTION Product does not exist, a NOT_FOUND error is returned.

read_mask

FieldMask

The fields of Product to return in the responses. If not set or empty, the following fields are returned:

If "*" is provided, all fields are returned. Product.name is always returned no matter what mask is set.

If an unsupported or unknown field is provided, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

ListProductsResponse

Response message for ProductService.ListProducts method.

Fields
products[]

Product

The Products.

next_page_token

string

A token that can be sent as ListProductsRequest.page_token to retrieve the next page. If this field is omitted, there are no subsequent pages.

ListServingConfigsRequest

Request for ListServingConfigs method.

Fields
parent

string

Required. The catalog resource name. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}

page_size

int32

Optional. Maximum number of results to return. If unspecified, defaults to 100. If a value greater than 100 is provided, at most 100 results are returned.

page_token

string

Optional. A page token, received from a previous ListServingConfigs call. Provide this to retrieve the subsequent page.

ListServingConfigsResponse

Response for ListServingConfigs method.

Fields
serving_configs[]

ServingConfig

All the ServingConfigs for a given catalog.

next_page_token

string

Pagination token, if not returned indicates the last page.

LocalInventory

The inventory information at a place (e.g. a store) identified by a place ID.

Fields
place_id

string

The place ID for the current set of inventory information.

price_info

PriceInfo

Product price and cost information.

Google Merchant Center property price.

attributes

map<string, CustomAttribute>

Additional local inventory attributes, for example, store name, promotion tags, etc.

This field needs to pass all below criteria, otherwise an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned:

  • At most 30 attributes are allowed.
  • The key must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 32 characters.
  • The key must match the pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_]*. For example, key0LikeThis or KEY_1_LIKE_THIS.
  • The attribute values must be of the same type (text or number).
  • Only 1 value is allowed for each attribute.
  • For text values, the length limit is 256 UTF-8 characters.
  • The attribute does not support search. The searchable field should be unset or set to false.
  • The max summed total bytes of custom attribute keys and values per product is 5MiB.
fulfillment_types[]

string

Input only. Supported fulfillment types. Valid fulfillment type values include commonly used types (such as pickup in store and same day delivery), and custom types. Customers have to map custom types to their display names before rendering UI.

Supported values:

  • "pickup-in-store"
  • "ship-to-store"
  • "same-day-delivery"
  • "next-day-delivery"
  • "custom-type-1"
  • "custom-type-2"
  • "custom-type-3"
  • "custom-type-4"
  • "custom-type-5"

If this field is set to an invalid value other than these, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

All the elements must be distinct. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Model

Metadata that describes the training and serving parameters of a Model. A Model can be associated with a ServingConfig and then queried through the Predict API.

Fields
name

string

Required. The fully qualified resource name of the model.

Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/models/{model_id} catalog_id has char limit of 50. recommendation_model_id has char limit of 40.

display_name

string

Required. The display name of the model.

Should be human readable, used to display Recommendation Models in the Retail Cloud Console Dashboard. UTF-8 encoded string with limit of 1024 characters.

training_state

TrainingState

Optional. The training state that the model is in (e.g. TRAINING or PAUSED).

Since part of the cost of running the service is frequency of training - this can be used to determine when to train model in order to control cost. If not specified: the default value for CreateModel method is TRAINING. The default value for UpdateModel method is to keep the state the same as before.

serving_state

ServingState

Output only. The serving state of the model: ACTIVE, NOT_ACTIVE.

create_time

Timestamp

Output only. Timestamp the Recommendation Model was created at.

update_time

Timestamp

Output only. Timestamp the Recommendation Model was last updated. E.g. if a Recommendation Model was paused - this would be the time the pause was initiated.

type

string

Required. The type of model e.g. home-page.

Currently supported values: recommended-for-you, others-you-may-like, frequently-bought-together, page-optimization, similar-items, buy-it-again, on-sale-items, and recently-viewed(readonly value).

This field together with optimization_objective describe model metadata to use to control model training and serving. See https://cloud.google.com/retail/docs/models for more details on what the model metadata control and which combination of parameters are valid. For invalid combinations of parameters (e.g. type = frequently-bought-together and optimization_objective = ctr), you receive an error 400 if you try to create/update a recommendation with this set of knobs.

optimization_objective

string

Optional. The optimization objective e.g. cvr.

Currently supported values: ctr, cvr, revenue-per-order.

If not specified, we choose default based on model type. Default depends on type of recommendation:

recommended-for-you => ctr

others-you-may-like => ctr

frequently-bought-together => revenue_per_order

This field together with optimization_objective describe model metadata to use to control model training and serving. See https://cloud.google.com/retail/docs/models for more details on what the model metadata control and which combination of parameters are valid. For invalid combinations of parameters (e.g. type = frequently-bought-together and optimization_objective = ctr), you receive an error 400 if you try to create/update a recommendation with this set of knobs.

periodic_tuning_state

PeriodicTuningState

Optional. The state of periodic tuning.

The period we use is 3 months - to do a one-off tune earlier use the TuneModel method. Default value is PERIODIC_TUNING_ENABLED.

last_tune_time

Timestamp

Output only. The timestamp when the latest successful tune finished.

tuning_operation

string

Output only. The tune operation associated with the model.

Can be used to determine if there is an ongoing tune for this recommendation. Empty field implies no tune is goig on.

data_state

DataState

Output only. The state of data requirements for this model: DATA_OK and DATA_ERROR.

Recommendation model cannot be trained if the data is in DATA_ERROR state. Recommendation model can have DATA_ERROR state even if serving state is ACTIVE: models were trained successfully before, but cannot be refreshed because model no longer has sufficient data for training.

filtering_option

RecommendationsFilteringOption

Optional. If RECOMMENDATIONS_FILTERING_ENABLED, recommendation filtering by attributes is enabled for the model.

serving_config_lists[]

ServingConfigList

Output only. The list of valid serving configs associated with the PageOptimizationConfig.

model_features_config

ModelFeaturesConfig

Optional. Additional model features config.

ContextProductsType

Use single or multiple context products for recommendations.

Enums
CONTEXT_PRODUCTS_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED Unspecified default value, should never be explicitly set. Defaults to MULTIPLE_CONTEXT_PRODUCTS.
SINGLE_CONTEXT_PRODUCT Use only a single product as context for the recommendation. Typically used on pages like add-to-cart or product details.
MULTIPLE_CONTEXT_PRODUCTS Use one or multiple products as context for the recommendation. Typically used on shopping cart pages.

DataState

Describes whether this model have sufficient training data to be continuously trained.

Enums
DATA_STATE_UNSPECIFIED Unspecified default value, should never be explicitly set.
DATA_OK The model has sufficient training data.
DATA_ERROR The model does not have sufficient training data. Error messages can be queried via Stackdriver.

FrequentlyBoughtTogetherFeaturesConfig

Additional configs for the frequently-bought-together model type.

Fields
context_products_type

ContextProductsType

Optional. Specifies the context of the model when it is used in predict requests. Can only be set for the frequently-bought-together type. If it isn't specified, it defaults to MULTIPLE_CONTEXT_PRODUCTS.

ModelFeaturesConfig

Additional model features config.

Fields

Union field type_dedicated_config.

type_dedicated_config can be only one of the following:

frequently_bought_together_config

FrequentlyBoughtTogetherFeaturesConfig

Additional configs for frequently-bought-together models.

PeriodicTuningState

Describes whether periodic tuning is enabled for this model or not. Periodic tuning is scheduled at most every three months. You can start a tuning process manually by using the TuneModel method, which starts a tuning process immediately and resets the quarterly schedule. Enabling or disabling periodic tuning does not affect any current tuning processes.

Enums
PERIODIC_TUNING_STATE_UNSPECIFIED Unspecified default value, should never be explicitly set.
PERIODIC_TUNING_DISABLED The model has periodic tuning disabled. Tuning can be reenabled by calling the EnableModelPeriodicTuning method or by calling the TuneModel method.
ALL_TUNING_DISABLED The model cannot be tuned with periodic tuning OR the TuneModel method. Hide the options in customer UI and reject any requests through the backend self serve API.
PERIODIC_TUNING_ENABLED The model has periodic tuning enabled. Tuning can be disabled by calling the DisableModelPeriodicTuning method.

ServingConfigList

Represents an ordered combination of valid serving configs, which can be used for PAGE_OPTIMIZATION recommendations.

Fields
serving_config_ids[]

string

Optional. A set of valid serving configs that may be used for PAGE_OPTIMIZATION.

ServingState

The serving state of the model.

Enums
SERVING_STATE_UNSPECIFIED Unspecified serving state.
INACTIVE The model is not serving.
ACTIVE The model is serving and can be queried.
TUNED The model is trained on tuned hyperparameters and can be queried.

TrainingState

The training state of the model.

Enums
TRAINING_STATE_UNSPECIFIED Unspecified training state.
PAUSED The model training is paused.
TRAINING The model is training.

OutputConfig

The output configuration setting.

Fields
Union field destination. The configuration of destination for holding output data. destination can be only one of the following:
gcs_destination

GcsDestination

The Google Cloud Storage location where the output is to be written to.

bigquery_destination

BigQueryDestination

The BigQuery location where the output is to be written to.

BigQueryDestination

The BigQuery output destination configuration.

Fields
dataset_id

string

Required. The ID of a BigQuery Dataset.

table_id_prefix

string

Required. The prefix of exported BigQuery tables.

table_type

string

Required. Describes the table type. The following values are supported:

  • table: A BigQuery native table.
  • view: A virtual table defined by a SQL query.

GcsDestination

The Google Cloud Storage output destination configuration.

Fields
output_uri_prefix

string

Required. The output uri prefix for saving output data to json files. Some mapping examples are as follows: output_uri_prefix sample output(assuming the object is foo.json) ======================== ============================================= gs://bucket/ gs://bucket/foo.json gs://bucket/folder/ gs://bucket/folder/foo.json gs://bucket/folder/item_ gs://bucket/folder/item_foo.json

OutputResult

Output result that stores the information about where the exported data is stored.

Fields
bigquery_result[]

BigQueryOutputResult

The BigQuery location where the result is stored.

gcs_result[]

GcsOutputResult

The Google Cloud Storage location where the result is stored.

PauseModelRequest

Request for pausing training of a model.

Fields
name

string

Required. The name of the model to pause. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/models/{model_id}

PredictRequest

Request message for Predict method.

Fields
placement

string

Required. Full resource name of the format: {placement=projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/servingConfigs/*} or {placement=projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/placements/*}. We recommend using the servingConfigs resource. placements is a legacy resource. The ID of the Recommendations AI serving config or placement. Before you can request predictions from your model, you must create at least one serving config or placement for it. For more information, see Manage serving configs.

The full list of available serving configs can be seen at https://console.cloud.google.com/ai/retail/catalogs/default_catalog/configs

user_event

UserEvent

Required. Context about the user, what they are looking at and what action they took to trigger the predict request. Note that this user event detail won't be ingested to userEvent logs. Thus, a separate userEvent write request is required for event logging.

Don't set UserEvent.visitor_id or UserInfo.user_id to the same fixed ID for different users. If you are trying to receive non-personalized recommendations (not recommended; this can negatively impact model performance), instead set UserEvent.visitor_id to a random unique ID and leave UserInfo.user_id unset.

page_size

int32

Maximum number of results to return. Set this property to the number of prediction results needed. If zero, the service will choose a reasonable default. The maximum allowed value is 100. Values above 100 will be coerced to 100.

page_token
(deprecated)

string

This field is not used; leave it unset.

filter

string

Filter for restricting prediction results with a length limit of 5,000 characters. Accepts values for tags and the filterOutOfStockItems flag.

  • Tag expressions. Restricts predictions to products that match all of the specified tags. Boolean operators OR and NOT are supported if the expression is enclosed in parentheses, and must be separated from the tag values by a space. -"tagA" is also supported and is equivalent to NOT "tagA". Tag values must be double quoted UTF-8 encoded strings with a size limit of 1,000 characters.

Note: "Recently viewed" models don't support tag filtering at the moment.

  • filterOutOfStockItems. Restricts predictions to products that do not have a stockState value of OUT_OF_STOCK.

Examples:

  • tag=("Red" OR "Blue") tag="New-Arrival" tag=(NOT "promotional")
  • filterOutOfStockItems tag=(-"promotional")
  • filterOutOfStockItems

If your filter blocks all prediction results, the API will return no results. If instead you want empty result sets to return generic (unfiltered) popular products, set strictFiltering to False in PredictRequest.params. Note that the API will never return items with storageStatus of "EXPIRED" or "DELETED" regardless of filter choices.

If filterSyntaxV2 is set to true under the params field, then attribute-based expressions are expected instead of the above described tag-based syntax. Examples:

  • (colors: ANY("Red", "Blue")) AND NOT (categories: ANY("Phones"))
  • (availability: ANY("IN_STOCK")) AND (colors: ANY("Red") OR categories: ANY("Phones"))

For more information, see Filter recommendations.

validate_only

bool

Use validate only mode for this prediction query. If set to true, a dummy model will be used that returns arbitrary products. Note that the validate only mode should only be used for testing the API, or if the model is not ready.

params

map<string, Value>

Additional domain specific parameters for the predictions.

Allowed values:

  • returnProduct: Boolean. If set to true, the associated product object will be returned in the results.metadata field in the prediction response.
  • returnScore: Boolean. If set to true, the prediction 'score' corresponding to each returned product will be set in the results.metadata field in the prediction response. The given 'score' indicates the probability of a product being clicked/purchased given the user's context and history.
  • strictFiltering: Boolean. True by default. If set to false, the service will return generic (unfiltered) popular products instead of empty if your filter blocks all prediction results.
  • priceRerankLevel: String. Default empty. If set to be non-empty, then it needs to be one of {'no-price-reranking', 'low-price-reranking', 'medium-price-reranking', 'high-price-reranking'}. This gives request-level control and adjusts prediction results based on product price.
  • diversityLevel: String. Default empty. If set to be non-empty, then it needs to be one of {'no-diversity', 'low-diversity', 'medium-diversity', 'high-diversity', 'auto-diversity'}. This gives request-level control and adjusts prediction results based on product category.
  • filterSyntaxV2: Boolean. False by default. If set to true, the filter field is interpreteted according to the new, attribute-based syntax.
labels

map<string, string>

The labels applied to a resource must meet the following requirements:

  • Each resource can have multiple labels, up to a maximum of 64.
  • Each label must be a key-value pair.
  • Keys have a minimum length of 1 character and a maximum length of 63 characters and cannot be empty. Values can be empty and have a maximum length of 63 characters.
  • Keys and values can contain only lowercase letters, numeric characters, underscores, and dashes. All characters must use UTF-8 encoding, and international characters are allowed.
  • The key portion of a label must be unique. However, you can use the same key with multiple resources.
  • Keys must start with a lowercase letter or international character.

See Google Cloud Document for more details.

PredictResponse

Response message for predict method.

Fields
results[]

PredictionResult

A list of recommended products. The order represents the ranking (from the most relevant product to the least).

attribution_token

string

A unique attribution token. This should be included in the UserEvent logs resulting from this recommendation, which enables accurate attribution of recommendation model performance.

missing_ids[]

string

IDs of products in the request that were missing from the inventory.

validate_only

bool

True if the validateOnly property was set in the request.

PredictionResult

PredictionResult represents the recommendation prediction results.

Fields
id

string

ID of the recommended product

metadata

map<string, Value>

Additional product metadata / annotations.

Possible values:

  • product: JSON representation of the product. Is set if returnProduct is set to true in PredictRequest.params.
  • score: Prediction score in double value. Is set if returnScore is set to true in PredictRequest.params.

PriceInfo

The price information of a Product.

Fields
currency_code

string

The 3-letter currency code defined in ISO 4217.

If this field is an unrecognizable currency code, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

The Product.Type.VARIANT Products with the same Product.primary_product_id must share the same currency_code. Otherwise, a FAILED_PRECONDITION error is returned.

price

float

Price of the product.

Google Merchant Center property price. Schema.org property Offer.price.

original_price

float

Price of the product without any discount. If zero, by default set to be the price. If set, original_price should be greater than or equal to price, otherwise an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is thrown.

cost

float

The costs associated with the sale of a particular product. Used for gross profit reporting.

Google Merchant Center property cost_of_goods_sold.

price_effective_time

Timestamp

The timestamp when the price starts to be effective. This can be set as a future timestamp, and the price is only used for search after price_effective_time. If so, the original_price must be set and original_price is used before price_effective_time.

Do not set if price is always effective because it will cause additional latency during search.

price_expire_time

Timestamp

The timestamp when the price stops to be effective. The price is used for search before price_expire_time. If this field is set, the original_price must be set and original_price is used after price_expire_time.

Do not set if price is always effective because it will cause additional latency during search.

price_range

PriceRange

Output only. The price range of all the child Product.Type.VARIANT Products grouped together on the Product.Type.PRIMARY Product. Only populated for Product.Type.PRIMARY Products.

Note: This field is OUTPUT_ONLY for ProductService.GetProduct. Do not set this field in API requests.

PriceRange

The price range of all variant Product having the same Product.primary_product_id.

Fields
price

Interval

The inclusive Product.pricing_info.price interval of all variant Product having the same Product.primary_product_id.

original_price

Interval

The inclusive Product.pricing_info.original_price internal of all variant Product having the same Product.primary_product_id.

Product

Product captures all metadata information of items to be recommended or searched.

Fields
name

string

Immutable. Full resource name of the product, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/branches/default_branch/products/product_id.

id

string

Immutable. Product identifier, which is the final component of name. For example, this field is "id_1", if name is projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/branches/default_branch/products/id_1.

This field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property id. Schema.org property Product.sku.

type

Type

Immutable. The type of the product. Default to Catalog.product_level_config.ingestion_product_type if unset.

primary_product_id

string

Variant group identifier. Must be an id, with the same parent branch with this product. Otherwise, an error is thrown.

For Type.PRIMARY Products, this field can only be empty or set to the same value as id.

For VARIANT Products, this field cannot be empty. A maximum of 2,000 products are allowed to share the same Type.PRIMARY Product. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property item_group_id. Schema.org property Product.inProductGroupWithID.

collection_member_ids[]

string

The id of the collection members when type is Type.COLLECTION.

Non-existent product ids are allowed. The type of the members must be either Type.PRIMARY or Type.VARIANT otherwise an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is thrown. Should not set it for other types. A maximum of 1000 values are allowed. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is return.

gtin

string

The Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) of the product.

This field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

This field must be a Unigram. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property gtin. Schema.org property Product.isbn, Product.gtin8, Product.gtin12, Product.gtin13, or Product.gtin14.

If the value is not a valid GTIN, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

categories[]

string

Product categories. This field is repeated for supporting one product belonging to several parallel categories. Strongly recommended using the full path for better search / recommendation quality.

To represent full path of category, use '>' sign to separate different hierarchies. If '>' is part of the category name, replace it with other character(s).

For example, if a shoes product belongs to both ["Shoes & Accessories" -> "Shoes"] and ["Sports & Fitness" -> "Athletic Clothing" -> "Shoes"], it could be represented as:

 "categories": [
   "Shoes & Accessories > Shoes",
   "Sports & Fitness > Athletic Clothing > Shoes"
 ]

Must be set for Type.PRIMARY Product otherwise an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

At most 250 values are allowed per Product unless overridden through the Google Cloud console. Empty values are not allowed. Each value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 5,000 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property google_product_category. Schema.org property Product.category.

title

string

Required. Product title.

This field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 1,000 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property title. Schema.org property Product.name.

brands[]

string

The brands of the product.

A maximum of 30 brands are allowed unless overridden through the Google Cloud console. Each brand must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 1,000 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property brand. Schema.org property Product.brand.

description

string

Product description.

This field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 5,000 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property description. Schema.org property Product.description.

language_code

string

Language of the title/description and other string attributes. Use language tags defined by BCP 47.

For product prediction, this field is ignored and the model automatically detects the text language. The Product can include text in different languages, but duplicating Products to provide text in multiple languages can result in degraded model performance.

For product search this field is in use. It defaults to "en-US" if unset.

attributes

map<string, CustomAttribute>

Highly encouraged. Extra product attributes to be included. For example, for products, this could include the store name, vendor, style, color, etc. These are very strong signals for recommendation model, thus we highly recommend providing the attributes here.

Features that can take on one of a limited number of possible values. Two types of features can be set are:

Textual features. some examples would be the brand/maker of a product, or country of a customer. Numerical features. Some examples would be the height/weight of a product, or age of a customer.

For example: { "vendor": {"text": ["vendor123", "vendor456"]}, "lengths_cm": {"numbers":[2.3, 15.4]}, "heights_cm": {"numbers":[8.1, 6.4]} }.

This field needs to pass all below criteria, otherwise an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned:

  • Max entries count: 200.
  • The key must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters.
  • For indexable attribute, the key must match the pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_]*. For example, key0LikeThis or KEY_1_LIKE_THIS.
  • For text attributes, at most 400 values are allowed. Empty values are not allowed. Each value must be a non-empty UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 256 characters.
  • For number attributes, at most 400 values are allowed.
tags[]

string

Custom tags associated with the product.

At most 250 values are allowed per Product. This value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 1,000 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

This tag can be used for filtering recommendation results by passing the tag as part of the PredictRequest.filter.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property custom_label_0–4.

price_info

PriceInfo

Product price and cost information.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property price.

rating

Rating

The rating of this product.

available_time

Timestamp

The timestamp when this Product becomes available for SearchService.Search. Note that this is only applicable to Type.PRIMARY and Type.COLLECTION, and ignored for Type.VARIANT.

availability

Availability

The online availability of the Product. Default to Availability.IN_STOCK.

For primary products with variants set the availability of the primary as Availability.OUT_OF_STOCK and set the true availability at the variant level. This way the primary product will be considered "in stock" as long as it has at least one variant in stock.

For primary products with no variants set the true availability at the primary level.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property availability. Schema.org property Offer.availability.

available_quantity

Int32Value

The available quantity of the item.

fulfillment_info[]

FulfillmentInfo

Fulfillment information, such as the store IDs for in-store pickup or region IDs for different shipping methods.

All the elements must have distinct FulfillmentInfo.type. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

uri

string

Canonical URL directly linking to the product detail page.

It is strongly recommended to provide a valid uri for the product, otherwise the service performance could be significantly degraded.

This field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 5,000 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property link. Schema.org property Offer.url.

images[]

Image

Product images for the product. We highly recommend putting the main image first.

A maximum of 300 images are allowed.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property image_link. Schema.org property Product.image.

audience

Audience

The target group associated with a given audience (e.g. male, veterans, car owners, musicians, etc.) of the product.

color_info

ColorInfo

The color of the product.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property color. Schema.org property Product.color.

sizes[]

string

The size of the product. To represent different size systems or size types, consider using this format: [[[size_system:]size_type:]size_value].

For example, in "US:MENS:M", "US" represents size system; "MENS" represents size type; "M" represents size value. In "GIRLS:27", size system is empty; "GIRLS" represents size type; "27" represents size value. In "32 inches", both size system and size type are empty, while size value is "32 inches".

A maximum of 20 values are allowed per Product. Each value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property size, size_type, and size_system. Schema.org property Product.size.

materials[]

string

The material of the product. For example, "leather", "wooden".

A maximum of 20 values are allowed. Each value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 200 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property material. Schema.org property Product.material.

patterns[]

string

The pattern or graphic print of the product. For example, "striped", "polka dot", "paisley".

A maximum of 20 values are allowed per Product. Each value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property pattern. Schema.org property Product.pattern.

conditions[]

string

The condition of the product. Strongly encouraged to use the standard values: "new", "refurbished", "used".

A maximum of 1 value is allowed per Product. Each value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property condition. Schema.org property Offer.itemCondition.

promotions[]

Promotion

The promotions applied to the product. A maximum of 10 values are allowed per Product. Only Promotion.promotion_id will be used, other fields will be ignored if set.

publish_time

Timestamp

The timestamp when the product is published by the retailer for the first time, which indicates the freshness of the products. Note that this field is different from available_time, given it purely describes product freshness regardless of when it is available on search and recommendation.

retrievable_fields
(deprecated)

FieldMask

Indicates which fields in the Products are returned in SearchResponse.

Supported fields for all types:

Supported fields only for Type.PRIMARY and Type.COLLECTION:

Supported fields only for Type.VARIANT:

  • Only the first image in images

To mark attributes as retrievable, include paths of the form "attributes.key" where "key" is the key of a custom attribute, as specified in attributes.

For Type.PRIMARY and Type.COLLECTION, the following fields are always returned in SearchResponse by default:

For Type.VARIANT, the following fields are always returned in by default:

The maximum number of paths is 30. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Note: Returning more fields in SearchResponse can increase response payload size and serving latency.

This field is deprecated. Use the retrievable site-wide control instead.

variants[]

Product

Output only. Product variants grouped together on primary product which share similar product attributes. It's automatically grouped by primary_product_id for all the product variants. Only populated for Type.PRIMARY Products.

Note: This field is OUTPUT_ONLY for ProductService.GetProduct. Do not set this field in API requests.

local_inventories[]

LocalInventory

Output only. A list of local inventories specific to different places.

This field can be managed by ProductService.AddLocalInventories and ProductService.RemoveLocalInventories APIs if fine-grained, high-volume updates are necessary.

Union field expiration.

expiration can be only one of the following:

expire_time

Timestamp

Note that this field is applied in the following ways:

In general, we suggest the users to delete the stale products explicitly, instead of using this field to determine staleness.

expire_time must be later than available_time and publish_time, otherwise an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is thrown.

Corresponding properties: Google Merchant Center property expiration_date.

ttl

Duration

Input only. The TTL (time to live) of the product. Note that this is only applicable to Type.PRIMARY and Type.COLLECTION, and ignored for Type.VARIANT. In general, we suggest the users to delete the stale products explicitly, instead of using this field to determine staleness.

If it is set, it must be a non-negative value, and expire_time is set as current timestamp plus ttl. The derived expire_time is returned in the output and ttl is left blank when retrieving the Product.

If it is set, the product is not available for SearchService.Search after current timestamp plus ttl. However, the product can still be retrieved by ProductService.GetProduct and ProductService.ListProducts.

Availability

Product availability. If this field is unspecified, the product is assumed to be in stock.

Enums
AVAILABILITY_UNSPECIFIED Default product availability. Default to Availability.IN_STOCK if unset.
IN_STOCK Product in stock.
OUT_OF_STOCK Product out of stock.
PREORDER Product that is in pre-order state.
BACKORDER Product that is back-ordered (i.e. temporarily out of stock).

Type

The type of this product.

Enums
TYPE_UNSPECIFIED Default value. Default to Catalog.product_level_config.ingestion_product_type if unset.
PRIMARY

The primary type.

As the primary unit for predicting, indexing and search serving, a Type.PRIMARY Product is grouped with multiple Type.VARIANT Products.

VARIANT

The variant type.

Type.VARIANT Products usually share some common attributes on the same Type.PRIMARY Products, but they have variant attributes like different colors, sizes and prices, etc.

COLLECTION The collection type. Collection products are bundled Type.PRIMARY Products or Type.VARIANT Products that are sold together, such as a jewelry set with necklaces, earrings and rings, etc.

ProductAttributeInterval

Product attribute name and numeric interval.

Fields
name

string

The attribute name (e.g. "length")

interval

Interval

The numeric interval (e.g. [10, 20))

ProductAttributeValue

Product attribute which structured by an attribute name and value. This structure is used in conversational search filters and answers. For example, if we have name=color and value=red, this means that the color is red.

Fields
name

string

The attribute name.

value

string

The attribute value.

ProductDetail

Detailed product information associated with a user event.

Fields
product

Product

Required. Product information.

Required field(s):

Optional override field(s):

If any supported optional fields are provided, we will treat them as a full override when looking up product information from the catalog. Thus, it is important to ensure that the overriding fields are accurate and complete.

All other product fields are ignored and instead populated via catalog lookup after event ingestion.

quantity

Int32Value

Quantity of the product associated with the user event.

For example, this field will be 2 if two products are added to the shopping cart for purchase-complete event. Required for add-to-cart and purchase-complete event types.

ProductInlineSource

The inline source for the input config for ImportProducts method.

Fields
products[]

Product

Required. A list of products to update/create. Each product must have a valid Product.id. Recommended max of 100 items.

ProductInputConfig

The input config source for products.

Fields
Union field source. Required. The source of the input. source can be only one of the following:
product_inline_source

ProductInlineSource

The Inline source for the input content for products.

gcs_source

GcsSource

Google Cloud Storage location for the input content.

big_query_source

BigQuerySource

BigQuery input source.

ProductLevelConfig

Configures what level the product should be uploaded with regards to how users will be send events and how predictions will be made.

Fields
ingestion_product_type

string

The type of Products allowed to be ingested into the catalog. Acceptable values are:

If this field is set to an invalid value other than these, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

If this field is variant and merchant_center_product_id_field is itemGroupId, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

See Product levels for more details.

merchant_center_product_id_field

string

Which field of Merchant Center Product should be imported as Product.id. Acceptable values are:

  • offerId (default): Import offerId as the product ID.
  • itemGroupId: Import itemGroupId as the product ID. Notice that Retail API will choose one item from the ones with the same itemGroupId, and use it to represent the item group.

If this field is set to an invalid value other than these, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

If this field is itemGroupId and ingestion_product_type is variant, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

See Product levels for more details.

Promotion

Promotion specification.

Fields
promotion_id

string

Promotion identifier, which is the final component of [name][]. For example, this field is "free_gift", if [name][] is projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/promotions/free_gift.

The value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters, and match the pattern: [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*. For example, id0LikeThis or ID_1_LIKE_THIS. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Corresponds to Google Merchant Center property promotion_id.

PurchaseTransaction

A transaction represents the entire purchase transaction.

Fields
id

string

The transaction ID with a length limit of 128 characters.

revenue

float

Required. Total non-zero revenue or grand total associated with the transaction. This value include shipping, tax, or other adjustments to total revenue that you want to include as part of your revenue calculations.

tax

float

All the taxes associated with the transaction.

cost

float

All the costs associated with the products. These can be manufacturing costs, shipping expenses not borne by the end user, or any other costs, such that:

currency_code

string

Required. Currency code. Use three-character ISO-4217 code.

PurgeMetadata

This type has no fields.

Metadata related to the progress of the Purge operation. This will be returned by the google.longrunning.Operation.metadata field.

PurgeProductsMetadata

Metadata related to the progress of the PurgeProducts operation. This will be returned by the google.longrunning.Operation.metadata field.

Fields
create_time

Timestamp

Operation create time.

update_time

Timestamp

Operation last update time. If the operation is done, this is also the finish time.

success_count

int64

Count of entries that were deleted successfully.

failure_count

int64

Count of entries that encountered errors while processing.

PurgeProductsRequest

Request message for PurgeProducts method.

Fields
parent

string

Required. The resource name of the branch under which the products are created. The format is projects/${projectId}/locations/global/catalogs/${catalogId}/branches/${branchId}

filter

string

Required. The filter string to specify the products to be deleted with a length limit of 5,000 characters.

Empty string filter is not allowed. "*" implies delete all items in a branch.

The eligible fields for filtering are:

Supported syntax:

  • Comparators (">", "<", ">=", "<=", "="). Examples:
  • create_time <= "2015-02-13T17:05:46Z"
  • availability = "IN_STOCK"
  • Conjunctions ("AND") Examples:

  • create_time <= "2015-02-13T17:05:46Z" AND availability = "PREORDER"
  • Disjunctions ("OR") Examples:

  • create_time <= "2015-02-13T17:05:46Z" OR availability = "IN_STOCK"
  • Can support nested queries. Examples:

  • (create_time <= "2015-02-13T17:05:46Z" AND availability = "PREORDER") OR (create_time >= "2015-02-14T13:03:32Z" AND availability = "IN_STOCK")
  • Filter Limits:

  • Filter should not contain more than 6 conditions.
  • Max nesting depth should not exceed 2 levels.

Examples queries: * Delete back order products created before a timestamp. create_time <= "2015-02-13T17:05:46Z" OR availability = "BACKORDER"

force

bool

Actually perform the purge. If force is set to false, the method will return the expected purge count without deleting any products.

PurgeProductsResponse

Response of the PurgeProductsRequest. If the long running operation is successfully done, then this message is returned by the google.longrunning.Operations.response field.

Fields
purge_count

int64

The total count of products purged as a result of the operation.

purge_sample[]

string

A sample of the product names that will be deleted. Only populated if force is set to false. A max of 100 names will be returned and the names are chosen at random.

PurgeUserEventsRequest

Request message for PurgeUserEvents method.

Fields
parent

string

Required. The resource name of the catalog under which the events are created. The format is projects/${projectId}/locations/global/catalogs/${catalogId}

filter

string

Required. The filter string to specify the events to be deleted with a length limit of 5,000 characters. Empty string filter is not allowed. The eligible fields for filtering are:

  • eventType: Double quoted UserEvent.event_type string.
  • eventTime: in ISO 8601 "zulu" format.
  • visitorId: Double quoted string. Specifying this will delete all events associated with a visitor.
  • userId: Double quoted string. Specifying this will delete all events associated with a user.

Examples:

  • Deleting all events in a time range: eventTime > "2012-04-23T18:25:43.511Z" eventTime < "2012-04-23T18:30:43.511Z"
  • Deleting specific eventType in time range: eventTime > "2012-04-23T18:25:43.511Z" eventType = "detail-page-view"
  • Deleting all events for a specific visitor: visitorId = "visitor1024"

The filtering fields are assumed to have an implicit AND.

force

bool

Actually perform the purge. If force is set to false, the method will return the expected purge count without deleting any user events.

PurgeUserEventsResponse

Response of the PurgeUserEventsRequest. If the long running operation is successfully done, then this message is returned by the google.longrunning.Operations.response field.

Fields
purged_events_count

int64

The total count of events purged as a result of the operation.

Rating

The rating of a Product.

Fields
rating_count

int32

The total number of ratings. This value is independent of the value of rating_histogram.

This value must be nonnegative. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

average_rating

float

The average rating of the Product.

The rating is scaled at 1-5. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

rating_histogram[]

int32

List of rating counts per rating value (index = rating - 1). The list is empty if there is no rating. If the list is non-empty, its size is always 5. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

For example, [41, 14, 13, 47, 303]. It means that the Product got 41 ratings with 1 star, 14 ratings with 2 star, and so on.

RecommendationsFilteringOption

If filtering for recommendations is enabled.

Enums
RECOMMENDATIONS_FILTERING_OPTION_UNSPECIFIED Value used when unset. In this case, server behavior defaults to RECOMMENDATIONS_FILTERING_DISABLED.
RECOMMENDATIONS_FILTERING_DISABLED Recommendation filtering is disabled.
RECOMMENDATIONS_FILTERING_ENABLED Recommendation filtering is enabled.

RejoinUserEventsMetadata

This type has no fields.

Metadata for RejoinUserEvents method.

RejoinUserEventsRequest

Request message for RejoinUserEvents method.

Fields
parent

string

Required. The parent catalog resource name, such as projects/1234/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog.

user_event_rejoin_scope

UserEventRejoinScope

The type of the user event rejoin to define the scope and range of the user events to be rejoined with the latest product catalog. Defaults to USER_EVENT_REJOIN_SCOPE_UNSPECIFIED if this field is not set, or set to an invalid integer value.

UserEventRejoinScope

The scope of user events to be rejoined with the latest product catalog. If the rejoining aims at reducing number of unjoined events, set UserEventRejoinScope to UNJOINED_EVENTS. If the rejoining aims at correcting product catalog information in joined events, set UserEventRejoinScope to JOINED_EVENTS. If all events needs to be rejoined, set UserEventRejoinScope to USER_EVENT_REJOIN_SCOPE_UNSPECIFIED.

Enums
USER_EVENT_REJOIN_SCOPE_UNSPECIFIED Rejoin all events with the latest product catalog, including both joined events and unjoined events.
JOINED_EVENTS Only rejoin joined events with the latest product catalog.
UNJOINED_EVENTS Only rejoin unjoined events with the latest product catalog.

RejoinUserEventsResponse

Response message for RejoinUserEvents method.

Fields
rejoined_user_events_count

int64

Number of user events that were joined with latest product catalog.

RemoveCatalogAttributeRequest

Request for CatalogService.RemoveCatalogAttribute method.

Fields
attributes_config

string

Required. Full AttributesConfig resource name. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/attributesConfig

key

string

Required. The attribute name key of the CatalogAttribute to remove.

RemoveControlRequest

Request for RemoveControl method.

Fields
serving_config

string

Required. The source ServingConfig resource name . Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/servingConfigs/{serving_config_id}

control_id

string

Required. The id of the control to apply. Assumed to be in the same catalog as the serving config.

RemoveFulfillmentPlacesMetadata

This type has no fields.

Metadata related to the progress of the RemoveFulfillmentPlaces operation. Currently empty because there is no meaningful metadata populated from the ProductService.RemoveFulfillmentPlaces method.

RemoveFulfillmentPlacesRequest

Request message for ProductService.RemoveFulfillmentPlaces method.

Fields
product

string

Required. Full resource name of Product, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/branches/default_branch/products/some_product_id.

If the caller does not have permission to access the Product, regardless of whether or not it exists, a PERMISSION_DENIED error is returned.

type

string

Required. The fulfillment type, including commonly used types (such as pickup in store and same day delivery), and custom types.

Supported values:

  • "pickup-in-store"
  • "ship-to-store"
  • "same-day-delivery"
  • "next-day-delivery"
  • "custom-type-1"
  • "custom-type-2"
  • "custom-type-3"
  • "custom-type-4"
  • "custom-type-5"

If this field is set to an invalid value other than these, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

This field directly corresponds to Product.fulfillment_info.type.

place_ids[]

string

Required. The IDs for this type, such as the store IDs for "pickup-in-store" or the region IDs for "same-day-delivery", to be removed for this type.

At least 1 value is required, and a maximum of 2000 values are allowed. Each value must be a string with a length limit of 10 characters, matching the pattern [a-zA-Z0-9_-]+, such as "store1" or "REGION-2". Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

remove_time

Timestamp

The time when the fulfillment updates are issued, used to prevent out-of-order updates on fulfillment information. If not provided, the internal system time will be used.

allow_missing

bool

If set to true, and the Product is not found, the fulfillment information will still be processed and retained for at most 1 day and processed once the Product is created. If set to false, a NOT_FOUND error is returned if the Product is not found.

RemoveFulfillmentPlacesResponse

This type has no fields.

Response of the RemoveFulfillmentPlacesRequest. Currently empty because there is no meaningful response populated from the ProductService.RemoveFulfillmentPlaces method.

RemoveLocalInventoriesMetadata

This type has no fields.

Metadata related to the progress of the RemoveLocalInventories operation. Currently empty because there is no meaningful metadata populated from the ProductService.RemoveLocalInventories method.

RemoveLocalInventoriesRequest

Request message for ProductService.RemoveLocalInventories method.

Fields
product

string

Required. Full resource name of Product, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/branches/default_branch/products/some_product_id.

If the caller does not have permission to access the Product, regardless of whether or not it exists, a PERMISSION_DENIED error is returned.

place_ids[]

string

Required. A list of place IDs to have their inventory deleted. At most 3000 place IDs are allowed per request.

remove_time

Timestamp

The time when the inventory deletions are issued. Used to prevent out-of-order updates and deletions on local inventory fields. If not provided, the internal system time will be used.

allow_missing

bool

If set to true, and the Product is not found, the local inventory removal request will still be processed and retained for at most 1 day and processed once the Product is created. If set to false, a NOT_FOUND error is returned if the Product is not found.

RemoveLocalInventoriesResponse

This type has no fields.

Response of the ProductService.RemoveLocalInventories API. Currently empty because there is no meaningful response populated from the ProductService.RemoveLocalInventories method.

ReplaceCatalogAttributeRequest

Request for CatalogService.ReplaceCatalogAttribute method.

Fields
attributes_config

string

Required. Full AttributesConfig resource name. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/attributesConfig

catalog_attribute

CatalogAttribute

Required. The updated CatalogAttribute.

update_mask

FieldMask

Indicates which fields in the provided CatalogAttribute to update. The following are NOT supported:

If not set, all supported fields are updated.

ResumeModelRequest

Request for resuming training of a model.

Fields
name

string

Required. The name of the model to resume. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/models/{model_id}

Rule

A rule is a condition-action pair

  • A condition defines when a rule is to be triggered.
  • An action specifies what occurs on that trigger. Currently rules only work for controls with SOLUTION_TYPE_SEARCH.
Fields
condition

Condition

Required. The condition that triggers the rule. If the condition is empty, the rule will always apply.

Union field action. An action must be provided. action can be only one of the following:
boost_action

BoostAction

A boost action.

redirect_action

RedirectAction

Redirects a shopper to a specific page.

oneway_synonyms_action

OnewaySynonymsAction

Treats specific term as a synonym with a group of terms. Group of terms will not be treated as synonyms with the specific term.

do_not_associate_action

DoNotAssociateAction

Prevents term from being associated with other terms.

replacement_action

ReplacementAction

Replaces specific terms in the query.

ignore_action

IgnoreAction

Ignores specific terms from query during search.

filter_action

FilterAction

Filters results.

twoway_synonyms_action

TwowaySynonymsAction

Treats a set of terms as synonyms of one another.

force_return_facet_action

ForceReturnFacetAction

Force returns an attribute as a facet in the request.

remove_facet_action

RemoveFacetAction

Remove an attribute as a facet in the request (if present).

BoostAction

A boost action to apply to results matching condition specified above.

Fields
boost

float

Strength of the condition boost, which must be in [-1, 1]. Negative boost means demotion. Default is 0.0.

Setting to 1.0 gives the item a big promotion. However, it does not necessarily mean that the boosted item will be the top result at all times, nor that other items will be excluded. Results could still be shown even when none of them matches the condition. And results that are significantly more relevant to the search query can still trump your heavily favored but irrelevant items.

Setting to -1.0 gives the item a big demotion. However, results that are deeply relevant might still be shown. The item will have an upstream battle to get a fairly high ranking, but it is not blocked out completely.

Setting to 0.0 means no boost applied. The boosting condition is ignored.

products_filter

string

The filter can have a max size of 5000 characters. An expression which specifies which products to apply an action to. The syntax and supported fields are the same as a filter expression. See SearchRequest.filter for detail syntax and limitations.

Examples:

  • To boost products with product ID "product_1" or "product_2", and color "Red" or "Blue":
    (id: ANY("product_1", "product_2"))
    AND
    (colorFamilies: ANY("Red", "Blue"))

DoNotAssociateAction

Prevents query_term from being associated with specified terms during search. Example: Don't associate "gShoe" and "cheap".

Fields
query_terms[]

string

Terms from the search query. Will not consider do_not_associate_terms for search if in search query. Can specify up to 100 terms.

do_not_associate_terms[]

string

Cannot contain duplicates or the query term. Can specify up to 100 terms.

terms[]

string

Will be [deprecated = true] post migration;

FilterAction

  • Rule Condition:

  • Action Input: The request query and filter that are applied to the retrieved products, in addition to any filters already provided with the SearchRequest. The AND operator is used to combine the query's existing filters with the filter rule(s). NOTE: May result in 0 results when filters conflict.

  • Action Result: Filters the returned objects to be ONLY those that passed the filter.

Fields
filter

string

A filter to apply on the matching condition results. Supported features:

  • filter must be set.
  • Filter syntax is identical to SearchRequest.filter. For more information, see Filter.
  • To filter products with product ID "product_1" or "product_2", and color "Red" or "Blue":
    (id: ANY("product_1", "product_2"))
    AND
    (colorFamilies: ANY("Red", "Blue"))

ForceReturnFacetAction

Force returns an attribute/facet in the request around a certain position or above.

  • Rule Condition: Must specify non-empty Condition.query_terms (for search only) or Condition.page_categories (for browse only), but can't specify both.

  • Action Inputs: attribute name, position

  • Action Result: Will force return a facet key around a certain position or above if the condition is satisfied.

Example: Suppose the query is "shoes", the Condition.query_terms is "shoes", the ForceReturnFacetAction.FacetPositionAdjustment.attribute_name is "size" and the ForceReturnFacetAction.FacetPositionAdjustment.position is 8.

Two cases: a) The facet key "size" is not already in the top 8 slots, then the facet "size" will appear at a position close to 8. b) The facet key "size" in among the top 8 positions in the request, then it will stay at its current rank.

Fields
facet_position_adjustments[]

FacetPositionAdjustment

Each instance corresponds to a force return attribute for the given condition. There can't be more 15 instances here.

FacetPositionAdjustment

Each facet position adjustment consists of a single attribute name (i.e. facet key) along with a specified position.

Fields
attribute_name

string

The attribute name to force return as a facet. Each attribute name should be a valid attribute name, be non-empty and contain at most 80 characters long.

position

int32

This is the position in the request as explained above. It should be strictly positive be at most 100.

IgnoreAction

Prevents a term in the query from being used in search. Example: Don't search for "shoddy".

Fields
ignore_terms[]

string

Terms to ignore in the search query.

OnewaySynonymsAction

Maps a set of terms to a set of synonyms. Set of synonyms will be treated as synonyms of each query term only. query_terms will not be treated as synonyms of each other. Example: "sneakers" will use a synonym of "shoes". "shoes" will not use a synonym of "sneakers".

Fields
query_terms[]

string

Terms from the search query. Will treat synonyms as their synonyms. Not themselves synonyms of the synonyms. Can specify up to 100 terms.

synonyms[]

string

Defines a set of synonyms. Cannot contain duplicates. Can specify up to 100 synonyms.

oneway_terms[]

string

Will be [deprecated = true] post migration;

RedirectAction

Redirects a shopper to a specific page.

  • Rule Condition: Must specify Condition.query_terms.
  • Action Input: Request Query
  • Action Result: Redirects shopper to provided uri.
Fields
redirect_uri

string

URL must have length equal or less than 2000 characters.

RemoveFacetAction

Removes an attribute/facet in the request if is present.

  • Rule Condition: Must specify non-empty Condition.query_terms (for search only) or Condition.page_categories (for browse only), but can't specify both.

  • Action Input: attribute name

  • Action Result: Will remove the attribute (as a facet) from the request if it is present.

Example: Suppose the query is "shoes", the Condition.query_terms is "shoes" and the attribute name "size", then facet key "size" will be removed from the request (if it is present).

Fields
attribute_names[]

string

The attribute names (i.e. facet keys) to remove from the dynamic facets (if present in the request). There can't be more 3 attribute names. Each attribute name should be a valid attribute name, be non-empty and contain at most 80 characters.

ReplacementAction

Replaces a term in the query. Multiple replacement candidates can be specified. All query_terms will be replaced with the replacement term. Example: Replace "gShoe" with "google shoe".

Fields
query_terms[]

string

Terms from the search query. Will be replaced by replacement term. Can specify up to 100 terms.

replacement_term

string

Term that will be used for replacement.

term

string

Will be [deprecated = true] post migration;

TwowaySynonymsAction

Creates a set of terms that will be treated as synonyms of each other. Example: synonyms of "sneakers" and "shoes":

  • "sneakers" will use a synonym of "shoes".
  • "shoes" will use a synonym of "sneakers".
Fields
synonyms[]

string

Defines a set of synonyms. Can specify up to 100 synonyms. Must specify at least 2 synonyms.

SearchRequest

Request message for SearchService.Search method.

Fields
placement

string

Required. The resource name of the Retail Search serving config, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/servingConfigs/default_serving_config or the name of the legacy placement resource, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/placements/default_search. This field is used to identify the serving config name and the set of models that are used to make the search.

branch

string

The branch resource name, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog/branches/0.

Use "default_branch" as the branch ID or leave this field empty, to search products under the default branch.

query

string

Raw search query.

If this field is empty, the request is considered a category browsing request and returned results are based on filter and page_categories.

visitor_id

string

Required. A unique identifier for tracking visitors. For example, this could be implemented with an HTTP cookie, which should be able to uniquely identify a visitor on a single device. This unique identifier should not change if the visitor logs in or out of the website.

This should be the same identifier as UserEvent.visitor_id.

The field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

user_info

UserInfo

User information.

page_size

int32

Maximum number of Products to return. If unspecified, defaults to a reasonable value. The maximum allowed value is 120. Values above 120 will be coerced to 120.

If this field is negative, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

page_token

string

A page token SearchResponse.next_page_token, received from a previous SearchService.Search call. Provide this to retrieve the subsequent page.

When paginating, all other parameters provided to SearchService.Search must match the call that provided the page token. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

offset

int32

A 0-indexed integer that specifies the current offset (that is, starting result location, amongst the Products deemed by the API as relevant) in search results. This field is only considered if page_token is unset.

If this field is negative, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

filter

string

The filter syntax consists of an expression language for constructing a predicate from one or more fields of the products being filtered. Filter expression is case-sensitive. For more information, see Filter.

If this field is unrecognizable, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

canonical_filter

string

The default filter that is applied when a user performs a search without checking any filters on the search page.

The filter applied to every search request when quality improvement such as query expansion is needed. In the case a query does not have a sufficient amount of results this filter will be used to determine whether or not to enable the query expansion flow. The original filter will still be used for the query expanded search. This field is strongly recommended to achieve high search quality.

For more information about filter syntax, see SearchRequest.filter.

order_by

string

The order in which products are returned. Products can be ordered by a field in an Product object. Leave it unset if ordered by relevance. OrderBy expression is case-sensitive. For more information, see Order.

If this field is unrecognizable, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

facet_specs[]

FacetSpec

Facet specifications for faceted search. If empty, no facets are returned.

A maximum of 200 values are allowed. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

dynamic_facet_spec
(deprecated)

DynamicFacetSpec

Deprecated. Refer to https://cloud.google.com/retail/docs/configs#dynamic to enable dynamic facets. Do not set this field.

The specification for dynamically generated facets. Notice that only textual facets can be dynamically generated.

boost_spec

BoostSpec

Boost specification to boost certain products. For more information, see Boost results.

Notice that if both ServingConfig.boost_control_ids and SearchRequest.boost_spec are set, the boost conditions from both places are evaluated. If a search request matches multiple boost conditions, the final boost score is equal to the sum of the boost scores from all matched boost conditions.

query_expansion_spec

QueryExpansionSpec

The query expansion specification that specifies the conditions under which query expansion occurs. For more information, see Query expansion.

variant_rollup_keys[]

string

The keys to fetch and rollup the matching variant Products attributes, FulfillmentInfo or LocalInventorys attributes. The attributes from all the matching variant Products or LocalInventorys are merged and de-duplicated. Notice that rollup attributes will lead to extra query latency. Maximum number of keys is 30.

For FulfillmentInfo, a fulfillment type and a fulfillment ID must be provided in the format of "fulfillmentType.fulfillmentId". E.g., in "pickupInStore.store123", "pickupInStore" is fulfillment type and "store123" is the store ID.

Supported keys are:

If this field is set to an invalid value other than these, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

page_categories[]

string

The categories associated with a category page. Must be set for category navigation queries to achieve good search quality. The format should be the same as UserEvent.page_categories;

To represent full path of category, use '>' sign to separate different hierarchies. If '>' is part of the category name, replace it with other character(s).

Category pages include special pages such as sales or promotions. For instance, a special sale page may have the category hierarchy: "pageCategories" : ["Sales > 2017 Black Friday Deals"].

search_mode

SearchMode

The search mode of the search request. If not specified, a single search request triggers both product search and faceted search.

personalization_spec

PersonalizationSpec

The specification for personalization.

Notice that if both ServingConfig.personalization_spec and SearchRequest.personalization_spec are set. SearchRequest.personalization_spec will override ServingConfig.personalization_spec.

labels

map<string, string>

The labels applied to a resource must meet the following requirements:

  • Each resource can have multiple labels, up to a maximum of 64.
  • Each label must be a key-value pair.
  • Keys have a minimum length of 1 character and a maximum length of 63 characters and cannot be empty. Values can be empty and have a maximum length of 63 characters.
  • Keys and values can contain only lowercase letters, numeric characters, underscores, and dashes. All characters must use UTF-8 encoding, and international characters are allowed.
  • The key portion of a label must be unique. However, you can use the same key with multiple resources.
  • Keys must start with a lowercase letter or international character.

For more information, see Requirements for labels in the Resource Manager documentation.

entity

string

The entity for customers that may run multiple different entities, domains, sites or regions, for example, Google US, Google Ads, Waymo, google.com, youtube.com, etc. If this is set, it should be exactly matched with UserEvent.entity to get search results boosted by entity.

conversational_search_spec

ConversationalSearchSpec

Optional. This field specifies all conversational related parameters addition to traditional retail search.

tile_navigation_spec

TileNavigationSpec

Optional. This field specifies tile navigation related parameters.

spell_correction_spec

SpellCorrectionSpec

The spell correction specification that specifies the mode under which spell correction will take effect.

BoostSpec

Boost specification to boost certain items.

Fields
condition_boost_specs[]

ConditionBoostSpec

Condition boost specifications. If a product matches multiple conditions in the specifictions, boost scores from these specifications are all applied and combined in a non-linear way. Maximum number of specifications is 20.

skip_boost_spec_validation

bool

Whether to skip boostspec validation. If this field is set to true, invalid BoostSpec.condition_boost_specs will be ignored and valid BoostSpec.condition_boost_specs will still be applied.

ConditionBoostSpec

Boost applies to products which match a condition.

Fields
condition

string

An expression which specifies a boost condition. The syntax and supported fields are the same as a filter expression. See SearchRequest.filter for detail syntax and limitations.

Examples:

  • To boost products with product ID "product_1" or "product_2", and color "Red" or "Blue":
    • (id: ANY("product_1", "product_2")) AND (colorFamilies: ANY("Red","Blue"))
boost

float

Strength of the condition boost, which should be in [-1, 1]. Negative boost means demotion. Default is 0.0.

Setting to 1.0 gives the item a big promotion. However, it does not necessarily mean that the boosted item will be the top result at all times, nor that other items will be excluded. Results could still be shown even when none of them matches the condition. And results that are significantly more relevant to the search query can still trump your heavily favored but irrelevant items.

Setting to -1.0 gives the item a big demotion. However, results that are deeply relevant might still be shown. The item will have an upstream battle to get a fairly high ranking, but it is not blocked out completely.

Setting to 0.0 means no boost applied. The boosting condition is ignored.

ConversationalSearchSpec

This field specifies all conversational related parameters addition to traditional retail search.

Fields
followup_conversation_requested

bool

This field specifies whether the customer would like to do conversational search. If this field is set to true, conversational related extra information will be returned from server side, including follow-up question, answer options, etc.

conversation_id

string

This field specifies the conversation id, which maintains the state of the conversation between client side and server side. Use the value from the previous [ConversationalSearchResult.conversation_id][]. For the initial request, this should be empty.

user_answer

UserAnswer

This field specifies the current user answer during the conversational search. This can be either user selected from suggested answers or user input plain text.

UserAnswer

This field specifies the current user answer during the conversational search. This can be either user selected from suggested answers or user input plain text.

Fields
Union field type. This field specifies the type of user answer. type can be only one of the following:
text_answer

string

This field specifies the incremental input text from the user during the conversational search.

selected_answer

SelectedAnswer

This field specifies the selected attributes during the conversational search. This should be a subset of [ConversationalSearchResult.suggested_answers][].

SelectedAnswer

This field specifies the selected answers during the conversational search.

Fields
product_attribute_values[]
(deprecated)

ProductAttributeValue

This field is deprecated and should not be set.

product_attribute_value

ProductAttributeValue

This field specifies the selected answer which is a attribute key-value.

DynamicFacetSpec

The specifications of dynamically generated facets.

Fields
mode

Mode

Mode of the DynamicFacet feature. Defaults to Mode.DISABLED if it's unset.

Mode

Enum to control DynamicFacet mode

Enums
MODE_UNSPECIFIED Default value.
DISABLED Disable Dynamic Facet.
ENABLED Automatic mode built by Google Retail Search.

FacetSpec

A facet specification to perform faceted search.

Fields
facet_key

FacetKey

Required. The facet key specification.

limit

int32

Maximum of facet values that should be returned for this facet. If unspecified, defaults to 50. The maximum allowed value is 300. Values above 300 will be coerced to 300.

If this field is negative, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

excluded_filter_keys[]

string

List of keys to exclude when faceting.

By default, FacetKey.key is not excluded from the filter unless it is listed in this field.

Listing a facet key in this field allows its values to appear as facet results, even when they are filtered out of search results. Using this field does not affect what search results are returned.

For example, suppose there are 100 products with the color facet "Red" and 200 products with the color facet "Blue". A query containing the filter "colorFamilies:ANY("Red")" and having "colorFamilies" as FacetKey.key would by default return only "Red" products in the search results, and also return "Red" with count 100 as the only color facet. Although there are also blue products available, "Blue" would not be shown as an available facet value.

If "colorFamilies" is listed in "excludedFilterKeys", then the query returns the facet values "Red" with count 100 and "Blue" with count 200, because the "colorFamilies" key is now excluded from the filter. Because this field doesn't affect search results, the search results are still correctly filtered to return only "Red" products.

A maximum of 100 values are allowed. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

enable_dynamic_position

bool

Enables dynamic position for this facet. If set to true, the position of this facet among all facets in the response is determined by Google Retail Search. It is ordered together with dynamic facets if dynamic facets is enabled. If set to false, the position of this facet in the response is the same as in the request, and it is ranked before the facets with dynamic position enable and all dynamic facets.

For example, you may always want to have rating facet returned in the response, but it's not necessarily to always display the rating facet at the top. In that case, you can set enable_dynamic_position to true so that the position of rating facet in response is determined by Google Retail Search.

Another example, assuming you have the following facets in the request:

  • "rating", enable_dynamic_position = true

  • "price", enable_dynamic_position = false

  • "brands", enable_dynamic_position = false

And also you have a dynamic facets enable, which generates a facet "gender". Then, the final order of the facets in the response can be ("price", "brands", "rating", "gender") or ("price", "brands", "gender", "rating") depends on how Google Retail Search orders "gender" and "rating" facets. However, notice that "price" and "brands" are always ranked at first and second position because their enable_dynamic_position values are false.

FacetKey

Specifies how a facet is computed.

Fields
key

string

Required. Supported textual and numerical facet keys in Product object, over which the facet values are computed. Facet key is case-sensitive.

Allowed facet keys when FacetKey.query is not specified:

  • textual_field =

    • "brands"
    • "categories"
    • "genders"
    • "ageGroups"
    • "availability"
    • "colorFamilies"
    • "colors"
    • "sizes"
    • "materials"
    • "patterns"
    • "conditions"
    • "attributes.key"
    • "pickupInStore"
    • "shipToStore"
    • "sameDayDelivery"
    • "nextDayDelivery"
    • "customFulfillment1"
    • "customFulfillment2"
    • "customFulfillment3"
    • "customFulfillment4"
    • "customFulfillment5"
    • "inventory(place_id,attributes.key)"
  • numerical_field =

    • "price"
    • "discount"
    • "rating"
    • "ratingCount"
    • "attributes.key"
    • "inventory(place_id,price)"
    • "inventory(place_id,original_price)"
    • "inventory(place_id,attributes.key)"
intervals[]

Interval

Set only if values should be bucketized into intervals. Must be set for facets with numerical values. Must not be set for facet with text values. Maximum number of intervals is 40.

For all numerical facet keys that appear in the list of products from the catalog, the percentiles 0, 10, 30, 50, 70, 90, and 100 are computed from their distribution weekly. If the model assigns a high score to a numerical facet key and its intervals are not specified in the search request, these percentiles become the bounds for its intervals and are returned in the response. If the facet key intervals are specified in the request, then the specified intervals are returned instead.

restricted_values[]

string

Only get facet for the given restricted values. For example, when using "pickupInStore" as key and set restricted values to ["store123", "store456"], only facets for "store123" and "store456" are returned. Only supported on predefined textual fields, custom textual attributes and fulfillments. Maximum is 20.

Must be set for the fulfillment facet keys:

  • pickupInStore

  • shipToStore

  • sameDayDelivery

  • nextDayDelivery

  • customFulfillment1

  • customFulfillment2

  • customFulfillment3

  • customFulfillment4

  • customFulfillment5

prefixes[]

string

Only get facet values that start with the given string prefix. For example, suppose "categories" has three values "Women > Shoe", "Women > Dress" and "Men > Shoe". If set "prefixes" to "Women", the "categories" facet gives only "Women > Shoe" and "Women > Dress". Only supported on textual fields. Maximum is 10.

contains[]

string

Only get facet values that contains the given strings. For example, suppose "categories" has three values "Women > Shoe", "Women > Dress" and "Men > Shoe". If set "contains" to "Shoe", the "categories" facet gives only "Women > Shoe" and "Men > Shoe". Only supported on textual fields. Maximum is 10.

case_insensitive

bool

True to make facet keys case insensitive when getting faceting values with prefixes or contains; false otherwise.

order_by

string

The order in which SearchResponse.Facet.values are returned.

Allowed values are:

If not set, textual values are sorted in natural order; numerical intervals are sorted in the order given by FacetSpec.FacetKey.intervals; FulfillmentInfo.place_ids are sorted in the order given by FacetSpec.FacetKey.restricted_values.

query

string

The query that is used to compute facet for the given facet key. When provided, it overrides the default behavior of facet computation. The query syntax is the same as a filter expression. See SearchRequest.filter for detail syntax and limitations. Notice that there is no limitation on FacetKey.key when query is specified.

In the response, SearchResponse.Facet.values.value is always "1" and SearchResponse.Facet.values.count is the number of results that match the query.

For example, you can set a customized facet for "shipToStore", where FacetKey.key is "customizedShipToStore", and FacetKey.query is "availability: ANY("IN_STOCK") AND shipToStore: ANY("123")". Then the facet counts the products that are both in stock and ship to store "123".

return_min_max

bool

Returns the min and max value for each numerical facet intervals. Ignored for textual facets.

PersonalizationSpec

The specification for personalization.

Fields
mode

Mode

Defaults to Mode.AUTO.

Mode

The personalization mode of each search request.

Enums
MODE_UNSPECIFIED Default value. In this case, server behavior defaults to Mode.AUTO.
AUTO Let CRS decide whether to use personalization based on quality of user event data.
DISABLED Disable personalization.

QueryExpansionSpec

Specification to determine under which conditions query expansion should occur.

Fields
condition

Condition

The condition under which query expansion should occur. Default to Condition.DISABLED.

pin_unexpanded_results

bool

Whether to pin unexpanded results. If this field is set to true, unexpanded products are always at the top of the search results, followed by the expanded results.

Condition

Enum describing under which condition query expansion should occur.

Enums
CONDITION_UNSPECIFIED Unspecified query expansion condition. In this case, server behavior defaults to Condition.DISABLED.
DISABLED Disabled query expansion. Only the exact search query is used, even if SearchResponse.total_size is zero.
AUTO Automatic query expansion built by Google Retail Search.

SearchMode

The search mode of each search request.

Enums
SEARCH_MODE_UNSPECIFIED Default value. In this case both product search and faceted search will be performed. Both SearchResponse.SearchResult and SearchResponse.Facet will be returned.
PRODUCT_SEARCH_ONLY

Only product search will be performed. The faceted search will be disabled.

Only SearchResponse.SearchResult will be returned. SearchResponse.Facet will not be returned, even if SearchRequest.facet_specs or SearchRequest.dynamic_facet_spec is set.

FACETED_SEARCH_ONLY

Only faceted search will be performed. The product search will be disabled.

When in this mode, one or both of SearchRequest.facet_specs and SearchRequest.dynamic_facet_spec should be set. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned. Only SearchResponse.Facet will be returned. SearchResponse.SearchResult will not be returned.

SpellCorrectionSpec

The specification for query spell correction.

Fields
mode

Mode

The mode under which spell correction should take effect to replace the original search query. Default to Mode.AUTO.

Mode

Enum describing under which mode spell correction should occur.

Enums
MODE_UNSPECIFIED Unspecified spell correction mode. In this case, server behavior defaults to Mode.AUTO.
SUGGESTION_ONLY Google Retail Search will try to find a spell suggestion if there is any and put in the SearchResponse.corrected_query. The spell suggestion will not be used as the search query.
AUTO Automatic spell correction built by Google Retail Search. Search will be based on the corrected query if found.

TileNavigationSpec

This field specifies tile navigation related parameters.

Fields
tile_navigation_requested

bool

This field specifies whether the customer would like to request tile navigation.

applied_tiles[]

Tile

This field specifies the tiles which are already clicked in client side. NOTE: This field is not being used for filtering search products. Client side should also put all the applied tiles in SearchRequest.filter.

SearchResponse

Response message for SearchService.Search method.

Fields
results[]

SearchResult

A list of matched items. The order represents the ranking.

facets[]

Facet

Results of facets requested by user.

total_size

int32

The estimated total count of matched items irrespective of pagination. The count of results returned by pagination may be less than the total_size that matches.

corrected_query

string

Contains the spell corrected query, if found. If the spell correction type is AUTOMATIC, then the search results are based on corrected_query. Otherwise the original query is used for search.

attribution_token

string

A unique search token. This should be included in the UserEvent logs resulting from this search, which enables accurate attribution of search model performance.

next_page_token

string

A token that can be sent as SearchRequest.page_token to retrieve the next page. If this field is omitted, there are no subsequent pages.

query_expansion_info

QueryExpansionInfo

Query expansion information for the returned results.

redirect_uri

string

The URI of a customer-defined redirect page. If redirect action is triggered, no search is performed, and only redirect_uri and attribution_token are set in the response.

applied_controls[]

string

The fully qualified resource name of applied controls.

invalid_condition_boost_specs[]

ConditionBoostSpec

The invalid SearchRequest.BoostSpec.condition_boost_specs that are not applied during serving.

experiment_info[]

ExperimentInfo

Metadata related to A/B testing [Experiment][] associated with this response. Only exists when an experiment is triggered.

conversational_search_result

ConversationalSearchResult

This field specifies all related information that is needed on client side for UI rendering of conversational retail search.

tile_navigation_result

TileNavigationResult

This field specifies all related information for tile navigation that will be used in client side.

ConversationalSearchResult

This field specifies all related information that is needed on client side for UI rendering of conversational retail search.

Fields
conversation_id

string

Conversation UUID. This field will be stored in client side storage to maintain the conversation session with server and will be used for next search request's SearchRequest.ConversationalSearchSpec.conversation_id to restore conversation state in server.

refined_query

string

The current refined query for the conversational search. This field will be used in customer UI that the query in the search bar should be replaced with the refined query. For example, if SearchRequest.query is dress and next SearchRequest.ConversationalSearchSpec.UserAnswer.text_answer is red color, which does not match any product attribute value filters, the refined query will be dress, red color.

additional_filters[]
(deprecated)

AdditionalFilter

This field is deprecated but will be kept for backward compatibility. There is expected to have only one additional filter and the value will be the same to the same as field additional_filter.

followup_question

string

The follow-up question. e.g., What is the color?

suggested_answers[]

SuggestedAnswer

The answer options provided to client for the follow-up question.

additional_filter

AdditionalFilter

This is the incremental additional filters implied from the current user answer. User should add the suggested addition filters to the previous SearchRequest.filter, and use the merged filter in the follow up search request.

AdditionalFilter

Additional filter that client side need to apply.

Fields
product_attribute_value

ProductAttributeValue

Product attribute value, including an attribute key and an attribute value. Other types can be added here in the future.

SuggestedAnswer

Suggested answers to the follow-up question.

Fields
product_attribute_value

ProductAttributeValue

Product attribute value, including an attribute key and an attribute value. Other types can be added here in the future.

Facet

A facet result.

Fields
key

string

The key for this facet. E.g., "colorFamilies" or "price" or "attributes.attr1".

values[]

FacetValue

The facet values for this field.

dynamic_facet

bool

Whether the facet is dynamically generated.

FacetValue

A facet value which contains value names and their count.

Fields
count

int64

Number of items that have this facet value.

min_value

double

The minimum value in the FacetValue.interval. Only supported on numerical facets and returned if SearchRequest.FacetSpec.FacetKey.return_min_max is true.

max_value

double

The maximum value in the FacetValue.interval. Only supported on numerical facets and returned if SearchRequest.FacetSpec.FacetKey.return_min_max is true.

Union field facet_value. A facet value which contains values. facet_value can be only one of the following:
value

string

Text value of a facet, such as "Black" for facet "colorFamilies".

interval

Interval

Interval value for a facet, such as [10, 20) for facet "price".

QueryExpansionInfo

Information describing query expansion including whether expansion has occurred.

Fields
expanded_query

bool

Bool describing whether query expansion has occurred.

pinned_result_count

int64

Number of pinned results. This field will only be set when expansion happens and SearchRequest.QueryExpansionSpec.pin_unexpanded_results is set to true.

SearchResult

Represents the search results.

Fields
id

string

Product.id of the searched Product.

product

Product

The product data snippet in the search response. Only Product.name is guaranteed to be populated.

Product.variants contains the product variants that match the search query. If there are multiple product variants matching the query, top 5 most relevant product variants are returned and ordered by relevancy.

If relevancy can be deternmined, use matching_variant_fields to look up matched product variants fields. If relevancy cannot be determined, e.g. when searching "shoe" all products in a shoe product can be a match, 5 product variants are returned but order is meaningless.

matching_variant_count

int32

The count of matched variant Products.

matching_variant_fields

map<string, FieldMask>

If a variant Product matches the search query, this map indicates which Product fields are matched. The key is the Product.name, the value is a field mask of the matched Product fields. If matched attributes cannot be determined, this map will be empty.

For example, a key "sku1" with field mask "products.color_info" indicates there is a match between "sku1" ColorInfo and the query.

variant_rollup_values

map<string, Value>

The rollup matching variant Product attributes. The key is one of the SearchRequest.variant_rollup_keys. The values are the merged and de-duplicated Product attributes. Notice that the rollup values are respect filter. For example, when filtering by "colorFamilies:ANY("red")" and rollup "colorFamilies", only "red" is returned.

For textual and numerical attributes, the rollup values is a list of string or double values with type google.protobuf.ListValue. For example, if there are two variants with colors "red" and "blue", the rollup values are

{ key: "colorFamilies"
  value {
    list_value {
      values { string_value: "red" }
      values { string_value: "blue" }
     }
  }
}

For FulfillmentInfo, the rollup values is a double value with type google.protobuf.Value. For example, {key: "pickupInStore.store1" value { number_value: 10 }} means a there are 10 variants in this product are available in the store "store1".

personal_labels[]

string

Specifies previous events related to this product for this user based on UserEvent with same SearchRequest.visitor_id or UserInfo.user_id.

This is set only when SearchRequest.PersonalizationSpec.mode is SearchRequest.PersonalizationSpec.Mode.AUTO.

Possible values:

  • purchased: Indicates that this product has been purchased before.

TileNavigationResult

This field specifies all related information for tile navigation that will be used in client side.

Fields
tiles[]

Tile

The current tiles that are used for tile navigation, sorted by engagement.

SearchSolutionUseCase

The use case of Cloud Retail Search.

Enums
SEARCH_SOLUTION_USE_CASE_UNSPECIFIED The value when it's unspecified. In this case, server behavior defaults to SEARCH_SOLUTION_USE_CASE_SEARCH.
SEARCH_SOLUTION_USE_CASE_BROWSE Browse use case. Expects the traffic has an empty query.

ServingConfig

Configures metadata that is used to generate serving time results (e.g. search results or recommendation predictions).

Fields
name

string

Immutable. Fully qualified name projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/*/servingConfig/*

display_name

string

Required. The human readable serving config display name. Used in Retail UI.

This field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

model_id

string

The id of the model in the same Catalog to use at serving time. Currently only RecommendationModels are supported: https://cloud.google.com/retail/recommendations-ai/docs/create-models Can be changed but only to a compatible model (e.g. others-you-may-like CTR to others-you-may-like CVR).

Required when solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_RECOMMENDATION.

price_reranking_level

string

How much price ranking we want in serving results. Price reranking causes product items with a similar recommendation probability to be ordered by price, with the highest-priced items first. This setting could result in a decrease in click-through and conversion rates. Allowed values are:

  • no-price-reranking
  • low-price-reranking
  • medium-price-reranking
  • high-price-reranking

If not specified, we choose default based on model type. Default value: no-price-reranking.

Can only be set if solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_RECOMMENDATION.

facet_control_ids[]

string

Facet specifications for faceted search. If empty, no facets are returned. The ids refer to the ids of Control resources with only the Facet control set. These controls are assumed to be in the same Catalog as the ServingConfig. A maximum of 100 values are allowed. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

Can only be set if solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_SEARCH.

dynamic_facet_spec

DynamicFacetSpec

The specification for dynamically generated facets. Notice that only textual facets can be dynamically generated.

Can only be set if solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_SEARCH.

boost_control_ids[]

string

Condition boost specifications. If a product matches multiple conditions in the specifications, boost scores from these specifications are all applied and combined in a non-linear way. Maximum number of specifications is 100.

Notice that if both ServingConfig.boost_control_ids and SearchRequest.boost_spec are set, the boost conditions from both places are evaluated. If a search request matches multiple boost conditions, the final boost score is equal to the sum of the boost scores from all matched boost conditions.

Can only be set if solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_SEARCH.

filter_control_ids[]

string

Condition filter specifications. If a product matches multiple conditions in the specifications, filters from these specifications are all applied and combined via the AND operator. Maximum number of specifications is 100.

Can only be set if solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_SEARCH.

redirect_control_ids[]

string

Condition redirect specifications. Only the first triggered redirect action is applied, even if multiple apply. Maximum number of specifications is 1000.

Can only be set if solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_SEARCH.

twoway_synonyms_control_ids[]

string

Condition synonyms specifications. If multiple syonyms conditions match, all matching synonyms control in the list will execute. Order of controls in the list will not matter. Maximum number of specifications is 100.

Can only be set if solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_SEARCH.

oneway_synonyms_control_ids[]

string

Condition oneway synonyms specifications. If multiple oneway synonyms conditions match, all matching oneway synonyms controls in the list will execute. Order of controls in the list will not matter. Maximum number of specifications is 100.

Can only be set if solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_SEARCH.

do_not_associate_control_ids[]

string

Condition do not associate specifications. If multiple do not associate conditions match, all matching do not associate controls in the list will execute. - Order does not matter. - Maximum number of specifications is 100.

Can only be set if solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_SEARCH.

replacement_control_ids[]

string

Condition replacement specifications. - Applied according to the order in the list. - A previously replaced term can not be re-replaced. - Maximum number of specifications is 100.

Can only be set if solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_SEARCH.

ignore_control_ids[]

string

Condition ignore specifications. If multiple ignore conditions match, all matching ignore controls in the list will execute. - Order does not matter. - Maximum number of specifications is 100.

Can only be set if solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_SEARCH.

diversity_level

string

How much diversity to use in recommendation model results e.g. medium-diversity or high-diversity. Currently supported values:

  • no-diversity
  • low-diversity
  • medium-diversity
  • high-diversity
  • auto-diversity

If not specified, we choose default based on recommendation model type. Default value: no-diversity.

Can only be set if solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_RECOMMENDATION.

diversity_type

DiversityType

What kind of diversity to use - data driven or rule based. If unset, the server behavior defaults to RULE_BASED_DIVERSITY.

enable_category_filter_level

string

Whether to add additional category filters on the similar-items model. If not specified, we enable it by default. Allowed values are:

  • no-category-match: No additional filtering of original results from the model and the customer's filters.
  • relaxed-category-match: Only keep results with categories that match at least one item categories in the PredictRequests's context item.
  • If customer also sends filters in the PredictRequest, then the results will satisfy both conditions (user given and category match).

Can only be set if solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_RECOMMENDATION.

ignore_recs_denylist

bool

When the flag is enabled, the products in the denylist will not be filtered out in the recommendation filtering results.

personalization_spec

PersonalizationSpec

The specification for personalization spec.

Can only be set if solution_types is SOLUTION_TYPE_SEARCH.

Notice that if both ServingConfig.personalization_spec and SearchRequest.personalization_spec are set. SearchRequest.personalization_spec will override ServingConfig.personalization_spec.

solution_types[]

SolutionType

Required. Immutable. Specifies the solution types that a serving config can be associated with. Currently we support setting only one type of solution.

DiversityType

What type of diversity - data or rule based.

Enums
DIVERSITY_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED Default value.
RULE_BASED_DIVERSITY Rule based diversity.
DATA_DRIVEN_DIVERSITY Data driven diversity.

SetDefaultBranchRequest

Request message to set a specified branch as new default_branch.

Fields
catalog

string

Full resource name of the catalog, such as projects/*/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog.

branch_id

string

The final component of the resource name of a branch.

This field must be one of "0", "1" or "2". Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

If there are no sufficient active products in the targeted branch and force is not set, a FAILED_PRECONDITION error is returned.

note

string

Some note on this request, this can be retrieved by CatalogService.GetDefaultBranch before next valid default branch set occurs.

This field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 1,000 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

force

bool

If set to true, it permits switching to a branch with branch_id even if it has no sufficient active products.

SetInventoryMetadata

This type has no fields.

Metadata related to the progress of the SetInventory operation. Currently empty because there is no meaningful metadata populated from the ProductService.SetInventory method.

SetInventoryRequest

Request message for ProductService.SetInventory method.

Fields
inventory

Product

Required. The inventory information to update. The allowable fields to update are:

If SetInventoryRequest.inventory.name is empty or invalid, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

If the caller does not have permission to update the Product named in Product.name, regardless of whether or not it exists, a PERMISSION_DENIED error is returned.

If the Product to update does not have existing inventory information, the provided inventory information will be inserted.

If the Product to update has existing inventory information, the provided inventory information will be merged while respecting the last update time for each inventory field, using the provided or default value for SetInventoryRequest.set_time.

The caller can replace place IDs for a subset of fulfillment types in the following ways:

The caller can clear all place IDs from a subset of fulfillment types in the following ways:

The last update time is recorded for the following inventory fields: * Product.price_info * Product.availability * Product.available_quantity * Product.fulfillment_info

If a full overwrite of inventory information while ignoring timestamps is needed, ProductService.UpdateProduct should be invoked instead.

set_mask

FieldMask

Indicates which inventory fields in the provided Product to update.

At least one field must be provided.

If an unsupported or unknown field is provided, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned and the entire update will be ignored.

set_time

Timestamp

The time when the request is issued, used to prevent out-of-order updates on inventory fields with the last update time recorded. If not provided, the internal system time will be used.

allow_missing

bool

If set to true, and the Product with name Product.name is not found, the inventory update will still be processed and retained for at most 1 day until the Product is created. If set to false, a NOT_FOUND error is returned if the Product is not found.

SetInventoryResponse

This type has no fields.

Response of the SetInventoryRequest. Currently empty because there is no meaningful response populated from the ProductService.SetInventory method.

SolutionType

The type of solution.

Enums
SOLUTION_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED Default value.
SOLUTION_TYPE_RECOMMENDATION Used for Recommendations AI.

Tile

This field specifies the tile information including an attribute key, attribute value. More fields will be added in the future, eg: product id or product counts, etc.

Fields
representative_product_id

string

The representative product id for this tile.

Union field product_attribute. The attribute key and value for the tile. product_attribute can be only one of the following:
product_attribute_value

ProductAttributeValue

The product attribute key-value.

product_attribute_interval

ProductAttributeInterval

The product attribute key-numeric interval.

TuneModelMetadata

Metadata associated with a tune operation.

Fields
model

string

The resource name of the model that this tune applies to. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/models/{model_id}

TuneModelRequest

Request to manually start a tuning process now (instead of waiting for the periodically scheduled tuning to happen).

Fields
name

string

Required. The resource name of the model to tune. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{location_id}/catalogs/{catalog_id}/models/{model_id}

TuneModelResponse

This type has no fields.

Response associated with a tune operation.

UpdateAttributesConfigRequest

Request for CatalogService.UpdateAttributesConfig method.

Fields
attributes_config

AttributesConfig

Required. The AttributesConfig to update.

update_mask

FieldMask

Indicates which fields in the provided AttributesConfig to update. The following is the only supported field:

If not set, all supported fields are updated.

UpdateCatalogRequest

Request for CatalogService.UpdateCatalog method.

Fields
catalog

Catalog

Required. The Catalog to update.

If the caller does not have permission to update the Catalog, regardless of whether or not it exists, a PERMISSION_DENIED error is returned.

If the Catalog to update does not exist, a NOT_FOUND error is returned.

update_mask

FieldMask

Indicates which fields in the provided Catalog to update.

If an unsupported or unknown field is provided, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

UpdateCompletionConfigRequest

Request for CatalogService.UpdateCompletionConfig method.

Fields
completion_config

CompletionConfig

Required. The CompletionConfig to update.

If the caller does not have permission to update the CompletionConfig, then a PERMISSION_DENIED error is returned.

If the CompletionConfig to update does not exist, a NOT_FOUND error is returned.

update_mask

FieldMask

Indicates which fields in the provided CompletionConfig to update. The following are the only supported fields:

If not set, all supported fields are updated.

UpdateControlRequest

Request for UpdateControl method.

Fields
control

Control

Required. The Control to update.

update_mask

FieldMask

Indicates which fields in the provided Control to update. The following are NOT supported:

If not set or empty, all supported fields are updated.

UpdateModelRequest

Request for updating an existing model.

Fields
model

Model

Required. The body of the updated Model.

update_mask

FieldMask

Optional. Indicates which fields in the provided 'model' to update. If not set, by default updates all fields.

UpdateProductRequest

Request message for ProductService.UpdateProduct method.

Fields
product

Product

Required. The product to update/create.

If the caller does not have permission to update the Product, regardless of whether or not it exists, a PERMISSION_DENIED error is returned.

If the Product to update does not exist and allow_missing is not set, a NOT_FOUND error is returned.

update_mask

FieldMask

Indicates which fields in the provided Product to update. The immutable and output only fields are NOT supported. If not set, all supported fields (the fields that are neither immutable nor output only) are updated.

If an unsupported or unknown field is provided, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

The attribute key can be updated by setting the mask path as "attributes.${key_name}". If a key name is present in the mask but not in the patching product from the request, this key will be deleted after the update.

allow_missing

bool

If set to true, and the Product is not found, a new Product will be created. In this situation, update_mask is ignored.

UpdateServingConfigRequest

Request for UpdateServingConfig method.

Fields
serving_config

ServingConfig

Required. The ServingConfig to update.

update_mask

FieldMask

Indicates which fields in the provided ServingConfig to update. The following are NOT supported:

If not set, all supported fields are updated.

UserEvent

UserEvent captures all metadata information Retail API needs to know about how end users interact with customers' website.

Fields
event_type

string

Required. User event type. Allowed values are:

  • add-to-cart: Products being added to cart.
  • remove-from-cart: Products being removed from cart.
  • category-page-view: Special pages such as sale or promotion pages viewed.
  • detail-page-view: Products detail page viewed.
  • home-page-view: Homepage viewed.
  • promotion-offered: Promotion is offered to a user.
  • promotion-not-offered: Promotion is not offered to a user.
  • purchase-complete: User finishing a purchase.
  • search: Product search.
  • shopping-cart-page-view: User viewing a shopping cart.
visitor_id

string

Required. A unique identifier for tracking visitors.

For example, this could be implemented with an HTTP cookie, which should be able to uniquely identify a visitor on a single device. This unique identifier should not change if the visitor log in/out of the website.

Don't set the field to the same fixed ID for different users. This mixes the event history of those users together, which results in degraded model quality.

The field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

The field should not contain PII or user-data. We recommend to use Google Analytics Client ID for this field.

session_id

string

A unique identifier for tracking a visitor session with a length limit of 128 bytes. A session is an aggregation of an end user behavior in a time span.

A general guideline to populate the sesion_id: 1. If user has no activity for 30 min, a new session_id should be assigned. 2. The session_id should be unique across users, suggest use uuid or add visitor_id as prefix.

event_time

Timestamp

Only required for UserEventService.ImportUserEvents method. Timestamp of when the user event happened.

experiment_ids[]

string

A list of identifiers for the independent experiment groups this user event belongs to. This is used to distinguish between user events associated with different experiment setups (e.g. using Retail API, using different recommendation models).

attribution_token

string

Highly recommended for user events that are the result of PredictionService.Predict. This field enables accurate attribution of recommendation model performance.

The value must be a valid PredictResponse.attribution_token for user events that are the result of PredictionService.Predict. The value must be a valid SearchResponse.attribution_token for user events that are the result of SearchService.Search.

This token enables us to accurately attribute page view or purchase back to the event and the particular predict response containing this clicked/purchased product. If user clicks on product K in the recommendation results, pass PredictResponse.attribution_token as a URL parameter to product K's page. When recording events on product K's page, log the PredictResponse.attribution_token to this field.

product_details[]

ProductDetail

The main product details related to the event.

This field is optional except for the following event types:

  • add-to-cart
  • detail-page-view
  • purchase-complete

In a search event, this field represents the products returned to the end user on the current page (the end user may have not finished browsing the whole page yet). When a new page is returned to the end user, after pagination/filtering/ordering even for the same query, a new search event with different product_details is desired. The end user may have not finished browsing the whole page yet.

completion_detail

CompletionDetail

The main auto-completion details related to the event.

This field should be set for search event when autocomplete function is enabled and the user clicks a suggestion for search.

attributes

map<string, CustomAttribute>

Extra user event features to include in the recommendation model.

If you provide custom attributes for ingested user events, also include them in the user events that you associate with prediction requests. Custom attribute formatting must be consistent between imported events and events provided with prediction requests. This lets the Retail API use those custom attributes when training models and serving predictions, which helps improve recommendation quality.

This field needs to pass all below criteria, otherwise an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned:

  • The key must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 5,000 characters.
  • For text attributes, at most 400 values are allowed. Empty values are not allowed. Each value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 256 characters.
  • For number attributes, at most 400 values are allowed.

For product recommendations, an example of extra user information is traffic_channel, which is how a user arrives at the site. Users can arrive at the site by coming to the site directly, coming through Google search, or in other ways.

cart_id

string

The ID or name of the associated shopping cart. This ID is used to associate multiple items added or present in the cart before purchase.

This can only be set for add-to-cart, purchase-complete, or shopping-cart-page-view events.

purchase_transaction

PurchaseTransaction

A transaction represents the entire purchase transaction.

Required for purchase-complete events. Other event types should not set this field. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

search_query

string

The user's search query.

See SearchRequest.query for definition.

The value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 5,000 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

At least one of search_query or page_categories is required for search events. Other event types should not set this field. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

filter

string

The filter syntax consists of an expression language for constructing a predicate from one or more fields of the products being filtered.

See SearchRequest.filter for definition and syntax.

The value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 1,000 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

order_by

string

The order in which products are returned.

See SearchRequest.order_by for definition and syntax.

The value must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 1,000 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

This can only be set for search events. Other event types should not set this field. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

offset

int32

An integer that specifies the current offset for pagination (the 0-indexed starting location, amongst the products deemed by the API as relevant).

See SearchRequest.offset for definition.

If this field is negative, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

This can only be set for search events. Other event types should not set this field. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

page_categories[]

string

The categories associated with a category page.

To represent full path of category, use '>' sign to separate different hierarchies. If '>' is part of the category name, replace it with other character(s).

Category pages include special pages such as sales or promotions. For instance, a special sale page may have the category hierarchy: "pageCategories" : ["Sales > 2017 Black Friday Deals"].

Required for category-page-view events. At least one of search_query or page_categories is required for search events. Other event types should not set this field. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

user_info

UserInfo

User information.

uri

string

Complete URL (window.location.href) of the user's current page.

When using the client side event reporting with JavaScript pixel and Google Tag Manager, this value is filled in automatically. Maximum length 5,000 characters.

referrer_uri

string

The referrer URL of the current page.

When using the client side event reporting with JavaScript pixel and Google Tag Manager, this value is filled in automatically.

page_view_id

string

A unique ID of a web page view.

This should be kept the same for all user events triggered from the same pageview. For example, an item detail page view could trigger multiple events as the user is browsing the page. The pageViewId property should be kept the same for all these events so that they can be grouped together properly.

When using the client side event reporting with JavaScript pixel and Google Tag Manager, this value is filled in automatically.

entity

string

The entity for customers that may run multiple different entities, domains, sites or regions, for example, Google US, Google Ads, Waymo, google.com, youtube.com, etc. We recommend that you set this field to get better per-entity search, completion, and prediction results.

UserEventImportSummary

A summary of import result. The UserEventImportSummary summarizes the import status for user events.

Fields
joined_events_count

int64

Count of user events imported with complete existing catalog information.

unjoined_events_count

int64

Count of user events imported, but with catalog information not found in the imported catalog.

UserEventInlineSource

The inline source for the input config for ImportUserEvents method.

Fields
user_events[]

UserEvent

Required. A list of user events to import. Recommended max of 10k items.

UserEventInputConfig

The input config source for user events.

Fields
Union field source. The source of the input. source can be only one of the following:
user_event_inline_source

UserEventInlineSource

Required. The Inline source for the input content for UserEvents.

gcs_source

GcsSource

Required. Google Cloud Storage location for the input content.

big_query_source

BigQuerySource

Required. BigQuery input source.

UserInfo

Information of an end user.

Fields
user_id

string

Highly recommended for logged-in users. Unique identifier for logged-in user, such as a user name. Don't set for anonymous users.

Always use a hashed value for this ID.

Don't set the field to the same fixed ID for different users. This mixes the event history of those users together, which results in degraded model quality.

The field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

ip_address

string

The end user's IP address. This field is used to extract location information for personalization.

This field must be either an IPv4 address (e.g. "104.133.9.80") or an IPv6 address (e.g. "2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334"). Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

This should not be set when:

user_agent

string

User agent as included in the HTTP header. Required for getting SearchResponse.sponsored_results.

The field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 1,000 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

This should not be set when using the client side event reporting with GTM or JavaScript tag in UserEventService.CollectUserEvent or if direct_user_request is set.

direct_user_request

bool

True if the request is made directly from the end user, in which case the ip_address and user_agent can be populated from the HTTP request. This flag should be set only if the API request is made directly from the end user such as a mobile app (and not if a gateway or a server is processing and pushing the user events).

This should not be set when using the JavaScript tag in UserEventService.CollectUserEvent.

WriteUserEventRequest

Request message for WriteUserEvent method.

Fields
parent

string

Required. The parent catalog resource name, such as projects/1234/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog.

user_event

UserEvent

Required. User event to write.

write_async

bool

If set to true, the user event will be written asynchronously after validation, and the API will respond without waiting for the write. Therefore, silent failures can occur even if the API returns success. In case of silent failures, error messages can be found in Stackdriver logs.