This directory contains Java samples for Vertex AI Search for commerce.

To run these samples, you must have:

1. A Google Cloud Project with the Vertex AI Search for commerce API enabled.
2. Vertex AI Search for commerce set up with a valid catalog and serving configuration (placement).
3. Authentication: These samples use Application Default Credentials (ADC).
   • If running locally, you can set up ADC by running:

     gcloud auth application-default login

4. IAM Roles: The service account or user running the samples needs the roles/retail.viewer (Retail Viewer) role or higher.

• Search.java: Basic search request showing both text search and browse search (using categories).
• SearchPagination.java: Shows how to use next_page_token to paginate through search results.
• SearchOffset.java: Shows how to use offset to skip a specified number of results.

For more information, see the Vertex AI Search for commerce documentation.