Restrict expired skus in ATG Search

Question

Hi
we have implemented product based search in our project and we are doing sort by price filtering.
But the results are not coming proper as the products are including expired skus. some expired skus have less price and that is making product to appear in top results when we do the filtering.
Is there a way to exclude skus whose end date has passed?
P.S we dont want to change the existing search functionality to sku based search.
Any ideas would help.

Answer 1

You can restrict the expired sku's not to show up in the search results by mentioning the date constraints in the QueryRequest. You can set the constraints for the search query request by adding property constraint for the startDate property of the product
In the QueryRequest.properties set the documentSetConstraints
QueryRequest.properties
documentSetContraints=/atg/commerce/search/SkuConstraints
and in the SkuConstraints.properties
$class=atg.search.routing.command.search.ConstraintsGroup
$scope=request
# include all the constraints that need to part of search Query
constraints=Constraint1, SkuStartDateConstraints, Constraint2, Constraint3
operation=and
SkuStartDateConstraints.properties
$class=atg.search.routing.command.search.PropConstraint
$scope=request
# Restrict the search to products with start date is less than or equal to the current date
type=integer
propertyName=startDate
operation=lesseq
value^=/atg/dynamo/service/CurrentDate.epochTime
Since in the above constraint we are comparing the time in seconds, extend the CurrentDate class to convert the time into seconds
* Returns the Epoch/current time value in String format. The time value is divided by 1000 in
* order to get the Epoch (seconds) time value, which is compatible with Search's date format.
* @return the time value in String format
public String getEpochTime() {
return String.valueOf((CurrentDate.getTime()/1000));
you can have custom class to define additional constraints that you want to set to the docSetConstraints.
HTH
Thanks
Rajesh Akavaram