search&promote facet flow expects json while seach is working with xml response

[asn11]

We are using search&promote for seach on our site.

The usage is prettymuch inline with the OOTB searchpromote components in libs/cq/searchpromote path.

We receive an XML from s&p server.

We now are looking at having facets, I tried putting linklist facet on results page to get facets but it failed, so looking at logs and going through jar I noticed that facet component in its dialog calls a servlet (path+facetList.json) this servlet calls searchpromoteservice's get facetList method.

      String facetList = this.searchpromote.getFacetList(memberId, accountNo);
      JSONObject facets = new JSONObject(facetList);
      out.write(facets.toString());

but it then tries to convert string response as JSON object and fails since the URL http://sp10050b5b.guided.ss-omtrdc.net/design/sp_id=MyID-MyAccount&sp_fn=facets results xml rsponse.

Only changing this setting in search & promote to return json would suffice or I will have to make any other changes as well?

Regards,

Allhad

[ParitMittal · Accepted solution]

Hi ,

You should make sure that the XML that it is received is the AEM XML  https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/en_US/snp/r_gsxmloutputforwem.html, not the normal XML. Also, it is not clear that which version of AEM your are sing . Actually is AEM code calling S&P, so the you should put the question in the AEM forum or contact support. you  should not modified the templates in S&P to return JSON and you  eed to re-write the AEM components to read them correctly, basically implement all S&P components.

Thanks & Regards

Parit Mittal