To better understand an Endeca record object returned by the MDEX Engine, we can look at a diagram.
The following diagram shows the structure of a generic Endeca record object:
This diagram illustrates that Endeca record objects contain all the
information associated with an Endeca record, including:
- A list of the dimensions that contain dimension values that have been tagged to the record.
- Information about each
individual dimension, including:
- Dimension root.
- Tagged dimension value(s).
- Ancestors for the tagged
dimension value(s), if any exist.
Note: The combination of a tagged dimension value and its ancestors is called a dimension location.
You can use the dimension hierarchy information in an Endeca record object to build follow-on navigation queries. For example, you can incorporate Find Similar functionality into your application by building a navigation query from the tagged dimension values for the current record.
