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How to retrieve a seller's items that are not:
1) Vehicles
2) Real Estate
Summary
You can use PrimaryCategory.CategoryName property to identify an item's listing category.
PrimaryCategory.CategoryName is returned in GetSellerList, GetItem and GetBidderList
As you can see that to accommodate the mentioned use case - be able to filter out the certain items based on its listing catetory is to use GetSellerList api call. However; the GetSellerList call returns large amount of data, you need to follow the best practice provided in the KB article Guidelines for using DetailLevel and GranularityLevel in GetSellerList to control the volume of the response.
Detailed Description
The PrimaryCategory.CategoryName property returns a fully qualified category name like
Collectibles:Decorative Collectibles, eBay Motors:Cars Trucks, ..
as it would appear on the eBay Web site, and we can then use Java String startWith() api to get the item's most top level Category names like Art, Books, Music ... The below Java code shows how to filter the unwanted items from the GetSellerList response.
public void request(ApiContext apiContext){
try{
String from = "2022-07-19 00:00:00", to = "2022-07-19 23:00:00";
java.util.Date dtfrom = eBayUtil.fromAPITimeString(from), dtto = eBayUtil.fromAPITimeString(to);
java.util.Calendar calFrom = java.util.Calendar.getInstance(), calTo = java.util.Calendar.getInstance();
calFrom.setTime(dtfrom);
calTo.setTime(dtto);
TimeFilter tf = new TimeFilter(calFrom, calTo);
PaginationType pt = new PaginationType();
pt.setEntriesPerPage(new Integer("200"));
pt.setPageNumber(new Integer("1"));
GetSellerListCall gslc = new GetSellerListCall(apiContext);
gslc.setStartTimeFilter(tf);
gslc.setEndTimeFilter(tf);
// set the GranulatityLevel to Medium for getting ListingType property
gslc.setGranularityLevel(GranularityLevelCodeType.Medium);
gslc.setPagination(pt);
//execute the GetSellerList call
ItemType[] retItems = gslc.getSellerList();
//iterate through the seller's items
for (ItemType item : retItems){
String listingType = item.getListingType().toString();
String categoryName = item.getPrimaryCategory().getCategoryName();
// filter out both the Real Estate and eBay Motors items
// <CategoryName>eBay Motors:Cars Trucks:Honda:Civic</CategoryName>
// <CategoryName>Real Estate:Land</CategoryName>
if( ( ! categoryName.startsWith("Real Estate")) && ( ! categoryName.startsWith("eBay Motors")) ){
// get the sold items only
if ((item.getSellingStatus().getQuantitySold().intValue() !=0)){
System.out.println("item: "+ item.getItemID().getValue() +" is listed in categoryName: [ "+ categoryName+" ]");
System.out.println("Item Current price :" +item.getSellingStatus().getCurrentPrice().getValue());
System.out.println("Item sold: " + item.getSellingStatus().getQuantitySold().intValue());
}
}
}
}catch(Exception e){}
}
Version Info
The code example above was based on the versions specified below:
| API Schema Version | 967 |
| Java SDK Version | javasdk v883.0 P |