getProductCategories

Retrieve all product categories

Description

This method retrieves an array of ProductCategory objects for all product categories.

See also addProductCategory

Syntax

ProductCategory getProductCategories ( ueSecurityToken Token)

Arguments

Type	Name	Description
ueSecurityToken	Token	Merchant security token: used to identify merchant and retrieve the custom fields.

Return Value

Type	Description
ProductCategory	Returns an array of ProductCategory objects containing information on the product categories

Examples

VB

            Dim category() As newtek.ProductCategory
            category = client.getProductCategories(token)

            MsgBox(category.Length)

.NET C

                try
                {
                    newtek.ProductCategory[] category = client.getProductCategories(token);
                    MessageBox.Show(string.Concat(category.Length));
                }
                catch (Exception err)
                {
                    MessageBox.Show(err.Message);
                }

XML

Request:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:ns1="urn:newtek" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
    <SOAP-ENV:Body>
     <ns1:getProductCategories>
    <Token xsi:type="ns1:ueSecurityToken">
    <ClientIP xsi:type="xsd:string">192.168.0.1</ClientIP>
    <PinHash xsi:type="ns1:ueHash">
    <HashValue xsi:type="xsd:string">11ac55b0a0b59f8f028dbf85bc32266fa973dd0e</HashValue>
    <Seed xsi:type="xsd:string">12678150211876663375</Seed>
    <Type xsi:type="xsd:string">sha1</Type>
    </PinHash>
    <SourceKey xsi:type="xsd:string">HB4P7C4K2w2ZCQQQXRqrxDj6agrS2NIT</SourceKey>
    </Token>
     </ns1:getProductCategories>
    </SOAP-ENV:Body>
    </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Response:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
    xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:ns1="urn:newtek"
    xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
      <SOAP-ENV:Body>
        <ns1:getProductCategoriesResponse>
          <getProductCategoriesReturn SOAP-ENC:arrayType="ns1:ProductCategory[4]" xsi:type="ns1:ProductCategoryArray">
            <item xsi:type="ns1:ProductCategory">
              <ProductCategoryRefNum xsi:type="xsd:string">900100191</ProductCategoryRefNum>
              <Name xsi:type="xsd:string">Books:Math</Name>
            </item>
            <item xsi:type="ns1:ProductCategory">
              <ProductCategoryRefNum xsi:type="xsd:string">900100193</ProductCategoryRefNum>
              <Name xsi:type="xsd:string">Example Category</Name>
            </item>
            <item xsi:type="ns1:ProductCategory">
              <ProductCategoryRefNum xsi:type="xsd:string">900100194</ProductCategoryRefNum>
              <Name xsi:type="xsd:string">Example Category</Name>
            </item>
            <item xsi:type="ns1:ProductCategory">
              <ProductCategoryRefNum xsi:type="xsd:string">900100192</ProductCategoryRefNum>
              <Name xsi:type="xsd:string">Test Category</Name>
            </item>
          </getProductCategoriesReturn>
        </ns1:getProductCategoriesResponse>
      </SOAP-ENV:Body>
    </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

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