Interests

What is an interest? For us, interest is a combination of a few things: a source, a type and a unique identifier. Behind this data sits a football player, competition, or anything custom you decide. Interests also have a favorite flag, so your users can distinguish between, say teams they want to keep up with and their favorite teams. The source is usually one of our internal systems: e.g. football, profile, sport. Then comes the type. The type depends on the source. For example, if the source is football, your types can be player, team or competition. If it’s sport, then you only have sport as a type. The last component is ID. This is usually the identifier in our platform. So, an interest with a source football, type player and ID fb:p:43400 is a someone called Cristiano Ronaldo. A source sport, with type sport and ID boxing means that the user follows the sport of Boxing. You can also specify your custom interests, using the custom source. Then, you are free to define your own type and ID to mean anything in your platform.