Data Layer medium complexity

User Preferences Service

Data service dedicated to managing user-specific preferences and settings related to activity suggestions, enabling personalized recommendation adjustments and feedback incorporation.

0 Dependencies
0 Dependents
1 Feature
2 Entities

📋 Component Information

🏷️ Component ID
user-preferences-service
📊 Type
Complexity
MEDIUM
🎯 Related Feature

📝 Component Summaries

Executive Summary

The User Preferences Service is essential for tailoring activity suggestions to individual users by managing their preference data securely and efficiently. This service enhances the relevance of recommendations, increasing user satisfaction and engagement. By respecting privacy and ensuring secure data handling, it supports compliance with data protection regulations and fosters user trust in the platform.

Project Manager Summary

This component requires medium complexity development focused on secure data management and integration with the main activity data repository. It must support real-time updates and retrievals to enable dynamic personalization. Coordination with backend and security teams is necessary to implement access controls and privacy safeguards. Testing should cover data accuracy, security, and performance under concurrent access.

Developer Summary

The User Preferences Service provides APIs for CRUD operations on user preference data, integrating with the activity data repository for persistence. It includes validation and sanitization layers to maintain data integrity and prevent injection attacks. The service implements authentication and authorization checks to secure user data. It is designed for extensibility to incorporate new preference types and supports asynchronous updates from user feedback mechanisms.

🔧 Technical Details

📋 Responsibilities

  • Store and retrieve user preference data
  • Update preferences based on user feedback and behavior
  • Provide preference data to suggestion engine
  • Ensure privacy and secure access controls

🔌 Interfaces

  • getUserPreferences(userId)
  • saveUserPreferences(userId, preferences)
  • updatePreferencesFromFeedback(userId, feedback)

🔗 Component Relationships

No component dependencies or relationships have been identified yet. This may be because:

  • The component is self-contained
  • Dependencies are managed at a higher level
  • Relationship mapping hasn't been completed