Get Attributes (Java)

Description

getAttributes() is used to fetch experimentation and personalized experiences from Target and extract attribute values.

Method

getAttributes

Attributes TargetClient.getAttributes(TargetDeliveryRequest targetRequest, String ...mboxes)

Parameters

Name Type Required Default Description
targetRequest TargetDeliveryRequest Yes None The same target request as used for Get Offers​
mboxNames var-args array No None A var-args array of mbox names

Result

An Attributes object is returned from TargetClient.getAttributes() which has the following methods:

Name Type Description
getBoolean(mboxName, key) Boolean Returns the value for a specified mbox name and attribute key
getString(mboxName, key) String Returns the value for a specified mbox name and attribute key
getInteger(mboxName, key) Integer Returns the value for a specified mbox name and attribute key
getDouble(mboxName, key) Double Returns the value for a specified mbox name and attribute key
toMboxMap(mboxName) Map Returns a simple Map with key value pairs
getResponse() TargetDeliveryResponse Returns the response object normally returned by getOffers

Example

Java

ClientConfig clientConfig = ClientConfig.builder()
        .client("acmeclient")
        .organizationId("1234567890@AdobeOrg")
        .build();

TargetClient targetJavaClient = TargetClient.create(clientConfig);

TargetDeliveryRequest targetDeliveryRequest = TargetDeliveryRequest.builder()
        .context(new Context().channel(ChannelType.WEB))
        .build();

Attributes offerAttributes = targetJavaClient.getAttributes(targetDeliveryRequest, "demo-engineering-flags");

//returns just the value of searchProviderId from the mbox offer
String searchProviderId = offerAttributes.getString("demo-engineering-flags", "searchProviderId");

//returns a simple Map representing the mbox offer
Map<String, Object> engineeringFlags = offerAttributes.toMboxMap("demo-engineering-flags");

//  the value of engineeringFlags looks like this
//  {
//      "cdnHostname": "cdn.cloud.corp.net",
//      "searchProviderId": 143,
//      "hasLegacyAccess": false
//  }

String assetUrl = "http://" + engineeringFlags.cdnHostname + "/path/to/asset";

On this page