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 span></a></li></ul></li><li class="level-1"><a class="expandible" href="#"><span>Getting Help</span></a><ul><li class="level-2"><a class="final" href="/resources/faq/"><span>FAQs</span></a></li><li class="level-2"><a class="final" href="/support/"><span>Support</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="level-1"><a class="expandible" href="#"><span>Resources</span></a><ul><li class="level-2"><a class="final" href="/resources/intellij/"><span>Developing Engines with IntelliJ IDEA</span></a></li><li class="level-2"><a class="final" href="/resources/upgrade/"><span>Upgrade Instructions</span></a></li><li class="level-2"><a class="final" href="/resources/glossary/"><span>Glossary</span></a></li></ul></li></ul></nav></div><div class="col-md-9 col-sm-12"><div class="content-header hidden-md hidden-lg"><div id="page-title"><h1>Quick Start - E-Commerce Recommendation Engine Template (Java)</h1></div></div><div id="table-of-content-wrapper"><h5>On this page</h5><aside id="table-of-contents"><ul> <l
 i> <a href="#overview">Overview</a> </li> <li> <a href="#usage">Usage</a> </li> <li> <a href="#1-install-and-run-predictionio">1. Install and Run PredictionIO</a> </li> <li> <a href="#2-create-a-new-engine-from-an-engine-template">2. Create a new Engine from an Engine Template</a> </li> <li> <a href="#3-generate-an-app-id-and-access-key">3. Generate an App ID and Access Key</a> </li> <li> <a href="#4-collecting-data">4. Collecting Data</a> </li> <li> <a href="#5-deploy-the-engine-as-a-service">5. Deploy the Engine as a Service</a> </li> <li> <a href="#6-use-the-engine">6. Use the Engine</a> </li> <li> <a href="#setting-constraint-unavailableitems">Setting constraint "unavailableItems"</a> </li> <li> <a href="#advanced-query">Advanced Query</a> </li> </ul> </aside><hr/><a id="edit-page-link" href="https://github.com/apache/incubator-predictionio/tree/livedoc/docs/manual/source/templates/javaecommercerecommendation/quickstart.html.md.erb"><img src="/images/icons/edit-pencil-d6c1bb3d.p
 ng"/>Edit this page</a></div><div class="content-header hidden-sm hidden-xs"><div id="page-title"><h1>Quick Start - E-Commerce Recommendation Engine Template (Java)</h1></div></div><div class="content"><h2 id='overview' class='header-anchors'>Overview</h2><p>This engine template provides personalized recommendation for e-commerce applications with the following features by default:</p> <ul> <li>Exclude out-of-stock items</li> <li>Provide recommendation to new users who sign up after the model is trained</li> <li>Recommend unseen items only (configurable)</li> <li>Recommend popular items if no information about the user is available</li> </ul> <div class="alert-message warning"><p>This template requires PredictionIO version &gt;= 0.9.3</p></div><h2 id='usage' class='header-anchors'>Usage</h2><h3 id='event-data-requirements' class='header-anchors'>Event Data Requirements</h3><p>By default, this template takes the following data from Event Server:</p> <ul> <li>Users&#39; <em>view</em> 
 events</li> <li>Users&#39; <em>buy</em> events</li> <li>Items with <em>categories</em> properties</li> <li>Constraint <em>unavailableItems</em> set events</li> </ul> <div class="alert-message info"><p>This template can easily be customized to consider more user events such as <em>rate</em> and <em>like</em>.</p></div><p>The <em>view</em> events are used as Training Data to train the model. The algorithm has a parameter <em>unseenOnly</em>; when this parameter is set to true, the engine would recommend unseen items only. You can specify a list of events which are considered as <em>seen</em> events with the algorithm parameter <em>seenItemEvents</em>. The default values are <em>view</em> and <em>buy</em> events, which means that the engine by default recommends un-viewed and un-bought items only. You can also define your own events which are considered as <em>seen</em>.</p><p>The constraint <em>unavailableItems</em> set events are used to exclude a list of unavailable items (such as o
 ut of stock) for all users in real time.</p><h3 id='input-query' class='header-anchors'>Input Query</h3> <ul> <li>User entity ID</li> <li>Number of items to be recommended</li> <li>List of whitelisted item categories (optional)</li> <li>List of whitelisted item entity IDs (optional)</li> <li>List of blacklisted item entity IDs (optional)</li> </ul> <p>This template also supports blacklist and whitelist. If a whitelist is provided, the engine will include only those products in the recommendation. Likewise, if a blacklist is provided, the engine will exclude those products in the recommendation.</p><h3 id='output-predictedresult' class='header-anchors'>Output PredictedResult</h3> <ul> <li>A ranked list of recommended item entity IDs</li> </ul> <h2 id='1.-install-and-run-predictionio' class='header-anchors'>1. Install and Run PredictionIO</h2><p>First you need to <a href="/install">install PredictionIO 0.10.0-incubating</a> (if you haven&#39;t done it).</p><p>Let&#39;s say you have in
 stalled PredictionIO at <code>/home/yourname/PredictionIO/</code>. For convenience, add PredictionIO&#39;s binary command path to your <code>PATH</code>, i.e. <code>/home/yourname/PredictionIO/bin</code>:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span><span class="nv">PATH</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nv">$PATH</span>:/home/yourname/PredictionIO/bin; <span class="nb">export </span>PATH
-</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="alert-message note"><p>If you launched <strong>PredictionIO AWS instance</strong>, the path is located at <code>/opt/PredictionIO/bin</code>.</p></div><p>Once you have completed the installation process, please make sure all the components (PredictionIO Event Server, Elasticsearch, and HBase) are up and running.</p><div class="alert-message note"><p>If you launched <strong>PredictionIO AWS instance</strong>, you can skip <code>pio-start-all</code>. All components should have been started automatically.</p></div><p>If you are using PostgreSQL or MySQL, run the following to start PredictionIO Event Server:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio eventserver &amp;
-</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>If instead you are running HBase and Elasticsearch, run the following to start all PredictionIO Event Server, HBase, and Elasticsearch:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio-start-all
-</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>You can check the status by running:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio status
-</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>If everything is OK, you should see the following outputs:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
-2
-3
-4</pre></td><td class="code"><pre>...
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-<span class="o">(</span>sleeping 5 seconds <span class="k">for </span>all messages to show up...<span class="o">)</span>
-Your system is all ready to go.
-</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="alert-message note"><p>To further troubleshoot, please see <a href="/resources/faq/#using-predictionio">FAQ - Using PredictionIO</a>.</p></div> <p><a href="#"></a></p> <h2 id='2.-create-a-new-engine-from-an-engine-template' class='header-anchors'>2. Create a new Engine from an Engine Template</h2><p>Now let&#39;s create a new engine called <em>MyECommerceRecommendation</em> by downloading the E-Commerce Recommendation Engine Template. Go to a directory where you want to put your engine and run the following:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
-2</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio template get apache/incubator-predictionio-template-java-ecom-recommender MyECommerceRecommendation
-<span class="gp">$ </span><span class="nb">cd </span>MyECommerceRecommendation
-</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>A new directory <em>MyECommerceRecommendation</em> is created, where you can find the downloaded engine template.</p> <p><a href="#"></a></p> <h2 id='3.-generate-an-app-id-and-access-key' class='header-anchors'>3. Generate an App ID and Access Key</h2><p>You will need to create a new App in PredictionIO to store all the data of your app. The data collected will be used for machine learning modeling.</p><p>Let&#39;s assume you want to use this engine in an application named &quot;MyApp1&quot;. Run the following to create a new app &quot;MyApp1&quot;:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio app new MyApp1
-</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>You should find the following in the console output:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6</pre></td><td class="code"><pre>...
-<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span> Initialized Event Store <span class="k">for </span>this app ID: 1.
-<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span> Created new app:
-<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span>       Name: MyApp1
-<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span>         ID: 1
-<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span> Access Key: 3mZWDzci2D5YsqAnqNnXH9SB6Rg3dsTBs8iHkK6X2i54IQsIZI1eEeQQyMfs7b3F
-</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>Note that <em>App ID</em><em>, **Access Key</em>* are created for this App &quot;MyApp1&quot;. You will need the <strong>Access Key</strong> when you collect data with EventServer for this App.</p><p>You can list all of the apps created its corresponding ID and Access Key by running the following command:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio app list
-</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p>You should see a list of apps created. For example:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
-2
-3
-4</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span>                 Name |   ID |                                                       Access Key | Allowed Event<span class="o">(</span>s<span class="o">)</span>
-<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span>               MyApp1 |    1 | 3mZWDzci2D5YsqAnqNnXH9SB6Rg3dsTBs8iHkK6X2i54IQsIZI1eEeQQyMfs7b3F | <span class="o">(</span>all<span class="o">)</span>
-<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span>               MyApp2 |    2 | io5lz6Eg4m3Xe4JZTBFE13GMAf1dhFl6ZteuJfrO84XpdOz9wRCrDU44EUaYuXq5 | <span class="o">(</span>all<span class="o">)</span>
-<span class="o">[</span>INFO] <span class="o">[</span>App<span class="nv">$]</span> Finished listing 2 app<span class="o">(</span>s<span class="o">)</span>.
-</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <p><a href="#"></a></p> <h2 id='4.-collecting-data' class='header-anchors'>4. Collecting Data</h2><p>Next, let&#39;s collect training data for this Engine. By default, the E-Commerce Recommendation Engine Template supports 2 types of entities and 2 events: <strong>user</strong> and <strong>item</strong>; events <strong>view</strong> and <strong>buy</strong>. An item has the <strong>categories</strong> property, which is a list of category names (String). A user can view and buy an item. The specical <strong>constraint</strong> entiy with entityId <strong>unavailableItems</strong> defines a list of unavailable items and is taken into account in realtime during serving.</p><p>In summary, this template requires &#39;$set&#39; user event, &#39;$set&#39; item event, user-view-item events, user-buy-item event and &#39;$set&#39; constraint event.</p><div class="alert-message info"><p>This template can easily be customized to consider other user-to-it
 em events.</p></div><p>You can send these events to PredictionIO Event Server in real-time easily by making a HTTP request or through the provided SDK. Please see <a href="/appintegration/">App Integration Overview</a> for more details how to integrate your app with SDK.</p><p>Let&#39;s try sending events to EventServer with the following <code>curl</code> commands (The corresponding SDK code is showed in other tabs).</p><p>Replace <code>&lt;ACCCESS_KEY&gt;</code> by the Access Key generated in above steps. Note that <code>localhost:7070</code> is the default URL of the Event Server.</p><p>For convenience, set your access key to the shell variable, run:</p><p><code>$ ACCESS_KEY=&lt;ACCESS_KEY&gt;</code></p> <p><a href="#"></a></p> <p>For example, when a new user with id &quot;u0&quot; is created in your app on time <code>2014-11-02T09:39:45.618-08:00</code> (current time will be used if eventTime is not specified), you can send a <code>$set</code> event for this user. To send this e
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-  <span class="n">access_key</span><span class="o">=&lt;</span><span class="n">ACCESS</span> <span class="n">KEY</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">,</span>
-  <span class="n">url</span><span class="o">=&lt;</span><span class="n">URL</span> <span class="n">OF</span> <span class="n">EVENTSERVER</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">,</span>
-  <span class="n">threads</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span>
-  <span class="n">qsize</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">500</span>
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-  <span class="s1">'event'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'$set'</span><span class="p">,</span>
-  <span class="s1">'entityType'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'user'</span><span class="p">,</span>
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-  <span class="s1">'event'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'$set'</span><span class="p">,</span>
-  <span class="s1">'entityType'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">'item'</span><span class="p">,</span>
-  <span class="s1">'entityId'</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">ITEM</span> <span class="nx">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
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-  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityId</span><span class="o">(&lt;</span><span class="n">USER_ID</span><span class="o">&gt;);</span>
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-  <span class="n">entity_type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"item"</span><span class="p">,</span>
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-  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityType</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"item"</span><span class="o">)</span>
-  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityId</span><span class="o">(&lt;</span><span class="n">ITEM_ID</span><span class="o">&gt;)</span>
-  <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">property</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"categories"</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="n">ImmutableList</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">of</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"&lt;CATEGORY_1&gt;"</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="s">"&lt;CATEGORY_2&gt;"</span><span class="o">));</span>
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-  <span class="s1">'view'</span><span class="p">,</span>
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-  <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="no">USER</span> <span class="no">ID</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">{</span>
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-    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">event</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"view"</span><span class="o">)</span>
-    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityType</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"user"</span><span class="o">)</span>
-    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityId</span><span class="o">(&lt;</span><span class="n">USER_ID</span><span class="o">&gt;)</span>
-    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">targetEntityType</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"item"</span><span class="o">)</span>
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-<span class="n">client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">createEvent</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">viewEvent</span><span class="o">);</span>
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--H <span class="s2">"Content-Type: application/json"</span> <span class="se">\</span>
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-  <span class="n">entity_type</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"user"</span><span class="p">,</span>
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-    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">event</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"buy"</span><span class="o">)</span>
-    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityType</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"user"</span><span class="o">)</span>
-    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">entityId</span><span class="o">(&lt;</span><span class="n">USER_ID</span><span class="o">&gt;)</span>
-    <span class="o">.</span><span class="na">targetEntityType</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"item"</span><span class="o">)</span>
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 ith categories &quot;c1&quot; to &quot;c6&quot;). Each user then randomly view 10 items.</p><p>First, you will need to install Python SDK in order to run the sample data import script. To install Python SDK, run:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pip install predictionio
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 g-constraint-&quot;unavailableitems&quot;' class='header-anchors'>Setting constraint &quot;unavailableItems&quot;</h2><p>Now let&#39;s send an item constraint &quot;unavailableItems&quot; (replace accessKey with your Access Key):</p><div class="alert-message note"><p>You can also use SDK to send this event as described in the SDK sample above.</p></div><div class="tabs"> <ul class="control"> <li data-lang="json"><a href="#tab-a11c8a40-964b-4966-bb53-fb53dfb290c6">REST API</a></li> <li data-lang="python"><a href="#tab-d06a2b8d-508b-4638-b0a1-68a95039d059">Python SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="php"><a href="#tab-41759252-90bc-4687-981d-105821799967">PHP SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="ruby"><a href="#tab-2c2e716e-d5ce-4400-946f-51c168d981f7">Ruby SDK</a></li> <li data-lang="java"><a href="#tab-18ebd8b2-07bd-48e9-9df5-a896997a1cd9">Java SDK</a></li> </ul> <div data-tab="REST API" data-lang="json" id="tab-a11c8a40-964b-4966-bb53-fb53dfb290c6"> <div class="highlight shell"> <table style="border
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-  "userEntityId": "u1",
-  "number": 4,
-  "whitelist": ["i1", "i2", "i3", "i21", "i22", "i23", "i24", "i25"]
-}'</span> <span class="se">\</span>
-http://localhost:8000/queries.json
-
-<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"itemScores"</span>:[<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"itemEntityId"</span>:<span class="s2">"i3"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.003007015026561692<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"itemEntityId"</span>:<span class="s2">"i2"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.002848917309942939<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"itemEntityId"</span>:<span class="s2">"i23"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.0016857619403278443<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"itemEntityId"</span>:<span class="s2">"i25"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:1.3707548965227745E-4<span class="o">}]}</span>
-</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <h3 id='recommend-items-not-in-the-blacklist:' class='header-anchors'>Recommend items not in the blackList:</h3><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8
-9
-10</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>curl -H <span class="s2">"Content-Type: application/json"</span> <span class="se">\</span>
--d <span class="s1">'{
-  "userEntityId": "u1",
-  "number": 4,
-  "categories" : ["c4", "c3"],
-  "blacklist": ["i21", "i26", "i40"]
-}'</span> <span class="se">\</span>
-http://localhost:8000/queries.json
-
-<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"itemScores"</span>:[<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"itemEntityId"</span>:<span class="s2">"i4"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.006009267718658978<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"itemEntityId"</span>:<span class="s2">"i33"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.005999267822052033<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"itemEntityId"</span>:<span class="s2">"i14"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.005261309429391667<span class="o">}</span>,<span class="o">{</span><span class="s2">"itemEntityId"</span>:<span class="s2">"i2"</span>,<span class="s2">"score"</span>:0.002848917309942939<span class="o">}]}</span>
-</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <h4 id='<a-href="../dase/">next:-dase-components-explained</a>' class='header-anchors' ><a href="../dase/">Next: DASE Components Explained</a></h4></div></div></div></div><footer><div class="container"><div class="seperator"></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-6 col-xs-6 footer-link-column"><div class="footer-link-column-row"><h4>Community</h4><ul><li><a href="//docs.prediction.io/install/" target="blank">Download</a></li><li><a href="//docs.prediction.io/" target="blank">Docs</a></li><li><a href="//github.com/apache/incubator-predictionio" target="blank">GitHub</a></li><li><a href="mailto:user-subscribe@predictionio.incubator.apache.org" target="blank">Subscribe to User Mailing List</a></li><li><a href="//stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/predictionio" target="blank">Stackoverflow</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="col-md-6 col-xs-6 footer-link-column"><div class="footer-link-column-row"><h4>Contribute</h4><ul><li><a href="//predicti
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