Is there a way to access the Item Search API response data in shopping.ssp?

From backend (SSP and SS files) you can via 2 mechanisms: • For getting a set of items by id, commerce api has session.getItemFieldValues • For getting the raw api call, you can just do nlapiRequestURL to the item api you are interested in.

Thanks @PabloZ, I'm trying to redirect a user to the PDP if their search results return a unique single item in the PLP and thought that accessing the item search results would be a viable solution. Do you have any suggestions about how you might accomplish this or where in code you would extend to make this happen?

That should be built either with the extensibility API with the PLP component, or otherwise by modifying/extending the Facet Router or Facet Browse View.

Thanks again @PabloZ, I've been trying to utilize the extensibility API by creating an extension with a module that I access the PLP component from. Is it possible to cause a url redirect from the module mountToApp function? The idea I have is to check the PLP's items returned, and if only one item is returned, redirect the user to that item's PDP. I found an article that utilizes the PLP component to display an additional view and am wondering if I need to create a view and template to handle this instead of trying to code this within the mountToApp function.

The PLP component probably will not be able to access the search results until after rendering has begun (the page waits for a success/fail before doing so) so the redirect might not be very pretty if you do it that way. You have found the article that adds a child view on the PLP, my suggestion would be rather than straight redirecting a user after completing a keyword search that returns one item, just to show a banner that or something that encourages it.

@Ross Ireland i've just coded this for fun.

/* global SC */
define('SZeta.OneResultRedirect', [
    'Backbone'
], function SZetaOneResultRedirect(
    Backbone
) {
    'use strict';
    return {
        mountToApp: function mountToApp (application) {
            application.getLayout().on('beforeAppendView', function onBeforeAppendView() {
                var itemsInfo;
                var firstItem;
                var onlyOneItem;
                var plpComponent = application.getComponent('PLP');
                if (plpComponent) {
                    itemsInfo = plpComponent.getItemsInfo();
                    firstItem = itemsInfo && itemsInfo.length > 0 && itemsInfo[0];
                    onlyOneItem = itemsInfo && itemsInfo.length === 1;
                    if (!onlyOneItem || !firstItem) {
                        return;
                    }
                    if (SC.ENVIRONMENT.jsEnvironment === 'browser') {
                        Backbone.history.navigate(firstItem.keyMapping_url, { trigger: true });
                    }
                }
            });
        }
    };
});

Disclaimer: This hasn't been tested except for the bare minimum. It's not something that is live on any projects either. Use at own discression 🙂_._

btw you can swap out the use of the SC global var by using the environment component