eBay Trading API
Call Reference Version 585

A characteristic set ID that is associated with a catalog-enabled category that supports product search pages. You can pass an array of these IDs in the request. Each characteristic set corresponds to a level in the eBay category hierarchy at which all items share common characteristics. Multiple categories can be mapped to the same characteristic set. Each ID is used as a filter to limit the response content to fewer characteristic sets. When IDs are specified, the call only returns search page data for the corresponding characteristic sets. When no IDs are specified, the call returns all the current search page data in the system.

A version of the search page definitions for the site. Typically, an application passes the version value that was returned the last time the application executed this call. Filter that causes the call to return only the search pages for which the attribute meta-data has changed since the specified version. The latest version value is not necessarily greater than the previous value that was returned. Therefore, when comparing versions, only compare whether the value has changed.