Migrate Discover/Search Requests

This section covers the actions that must be taken to migrate a Places API Search request to a GS7 Discover request.

For more details about the types or specification of parameters, see the Developer Guide.

Base URL, Version, Resource

Parameter Places API GS7
Public/Automotive Base URL https://places.ls.hereapi.com https://discover.search.hereapi.com
Public Legacy Base URL https://places.ls.hereapi.com https://discover.search.hereapi.com
Public Automotive Base URL https://places.ls.hereapi.com https://discover.search.hereapi.com
Version /places/v1 /v1
Resource / Endpoint /discover/search /discover

Query flow

Places API Search result items are Place object links, of type urn:nlp-types:place. Applications needing to discriminate the different kind of Search results are using either the category.id or the categories[].id attribute. GS7 Discover resultType response element can be used instead. More details are to be found in the Result Types page

Places API applications retrieving the additional details of Place Media types through the href attribute
can retrieve those details on GS7 using the Lookup service with the id response element returned by the Discover Service. Chapter Place Details describes how Place Media types attributes map to those of a GS7 Lookup result.

Query parameters

Places API GS7 Comment
q q
Accept-Language lang Multiple values are currently not supported.
See Accept-Language header chapter
at
Geolocation 		at cgen and u sub-parameters currently not supported.
See Location Context for more details.
in in cgen and u sub-parameters currently not supported.
See Location Context for more details.
size limit
route route GS7 routes need to be encoded as "HERE flexible-polyline". CW, HW, DW are currently not supported.
See Route And Compressed Route for more details
compressedRoute route GS7 routes need to be encoded as "HERE flexible-polyline". .C, .H, .D are currently not supported.
See Route And Compressed Route and here-polyline-converter for more details
cs=pds Not necessary on GS7: GS7 supports by default cs=pds, the more granular places categories.
addressFilter=countryCode in=countryCode stateCode, county, district, city, zipCode keys are currently not supported.
recd=false Not necessary on GS7: GS7 always calculates distances with respect to the query location context.
urgency=1.0 Not necessary on GS7: GS7 distances are per default for an urgency of 1.0, i.e. calculated from the at position value. Check Route and Compressed Route chapter for more details.
tf=plain Not necessary on GS7: GS7 supports per default this label formatting mode.
show_refs=pvid
show_refs=tripadvisor
show_refs=yelp 		Not necessary on GS7: GS7 returns Core, Yelp and Tripadvisor ids in the references response element by default.

Search Media Type

Places API GS7 Comments
results GS7 does not currently support pagination.
search GS7 does not currently return a search location context that the service has chosen for the query.

Search Results Media Type

Places API GS7 Comments
previous, next, offset GS7 does not currently supports pagination.
items items
title title
highlightedTitle
highlightedVicinity 		Not returned.
Highlighting is supported in GS7 through string indices.
position[0]
position[1] 		position.lat
position.lon
Places API GS7 Comments
position[0]
position[1] 		position.lat
position.lon
title title
id id
categories[].id
categories[].title
(when id:xxx-xxxx-xxxx)		 categories[].id
categories[].name 		In GS7, the primary category object has primary field set to true.
categories[].id
categories[].title
(when id:xxx-xxxx)		 foodTypes[].id
foodTypes[].name 		In GS7, the primary cuisine object has primary field set to true.
type The concept of Media type is not supported. resultType field should be used to identify the type of the result.
href id See below Query flow
tags[].id foodTypes
bbox[0]
bbox[1]
bbox[2]
bbox[3] 		mapView.west
mapView.south
mapView.east
mapView.north
distance distance
address.text address.label
address.house address.houseNumber
address.building address.building
address.street address.street
address.postalCode address.postalCode
address.district address.district
address.city address.city
address.county address.county
address.state address.state
address.stateCode address.stateCode
address.country address.countryName
address.countryCode address.countryCode
contacts.phone[].value contacts[].phone[].value
contacts.website[].value contacts[].www[].value
contacts.fax[].value contacts[].fax[].value
contacts.email[].value contacts[].email[].value
references references Places API and GS7 structure the references differently.
access[0].position[0] access[0].lat
access[0].position[1] access[0].lon
openingHours openingHours[] GS7 supports multiple opening hours of same structure as Places API
phonemes phonemes
chainIds chains[].id
chains[].id chains[].id
chains[].names[].name chains[].name

Currently not supported

Following query parameters or headers are currently not supported in GS7 Discover service:

Places API Comment
X-Map-Viewport
asr
cs=places,cuisines Not supported.
GS7 only supports the more granular places categories.
See Category Systems for more details.
recd=true
urgency=0.0
tf=html
show_refs=venues*
show_refs=facebook
show_content
threshold

The following Places API attributes are currently not returned in GS7 Discover service:

Places API Comments
averageRating
category non-PDS categories are currently not supported
categories.href
categories.type
categories.system
contacts.phone[].label
contacts.website[].label
contacts.fax[].label
contacts.email[].label
icon
vicinity Currently not supported. address.label could be considered as a replacement.
address.level
address.areas
address.regions
having
tags non-PDS cuisines are currently not supported. Check Category Systems for more details.
authoritative
access[].accessType GS7 does not currently support access types
access[1:].position GS7 currently only supports one access position per result.
teaser
alternativeNames

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