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Prerequisite

Fields have to be defined in Hawksearch in order for the data sent from Optimizely website to be saved in the Hawksearch indexes. For more details on field setup please refer to https://luminoslabs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HC/pages/3718774833

Overall Approach

Passing data from an Optimizely solution (1 or multiple websites) to a Hawksearch engine (or more) has been designed as a 2-part process. Each part uses the Optimizely Scheduled Jobs support provided out of the box by the Optimizely framework:

1. Full Indexing Job - process which extracts all cms (pages) & commerce (products/variants/bundles/packages) content from your Optimizely Solution, transforms each content into document objects which are then loaded into the Hawksearch Engine(s).

2. Incremental Indexing Job - a process which uses Optimizely events raised when content is changed (published/deleted) in order to update the Hawksearch engine(s) with the latest version of data.

At the core of both indexing jobs sits a design based on a series of Handlers chained one after the other, each of them solving one particular indexing use case. This represents the first extensibility point of the indexing processes inside the connector. Additional handlers can be developed and chained as needed. For more details on how to do this, check How to Extend Handlers.

The more complex handlers (e.g. Product Indexing) are then built out of a series of Pipes which are usually extracting the content from the Optimizely databases, transforming them into Hawksearch document objects and then loading them into Hawksearch Engine(s) using the https://hawksearch.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HSKB/pages/1150943236/Hawksearch+V4.0 APIs. Additional pipes can be developed as needed. For more details on how to do this, check How to Extend Pipes.