getCategoryPolicies

This array contains applicable policy metadata for the leaf categories returned for the marketplace specified in the path parameter marketplace_id and optionally limited by only those leaf category IDs specified in the query parameter filter.

Occurrence: Always

If this field is returned as true, the corresponding category supports immediate payment for listings. The immediate payment feature is applicable to fixed-price listings, to auction listings with the 'Buy It Now' option enabled, and for a motor vehicle listing that requires an initial deposit. If the immediate payment feature is enabled for a listing, the buyer must pay immediately after clicking the 'Buy it Now' button.

This field is only returned when true (not returned when false).

Occurrence: Conditional

If this field is returned as true, the corresponding category supports business-to-business (B2B) VAT listings. If this field is not present, the category does not have B2B VAT listings. This feature is applicable to the eBay Germany (DE), Austria (AT), and Switzerland (CH) sites only.

This field is only returned when true (not returned when false).

Occurrence: Conditional

The unique identifier of the eBay leaf category for which metadata is being returned.

Occurrence: Always

The unique identifier of the category tree.

Occurrence: Always

If this field is returned as true, the corresponding category is no longer a valid eBay category on the site, and items may not be listed in this category. You can use the getExpiredCategories method (of the Taxonomy API) to find the leaf category that replaced the expired category.

This field is only returned when true (not returned when false).

Occurrence: Conditional

If this field is returned as true, the category supports the listing of intangible goods or services.

Occurrence: Conditional

If this field (Lot Size Disabled) is returned as true, the corresponding category does not support lot listings. A lot listing is a listing that features multiple related items that must be purchased by one buyer in one transaction.

This field is only returned when true (not returned when false).

Occurrence: Conditional

Indicates the Minimum Reserve Price for an auction listing in this category. If there is no Minimum Reserve Price, a value of 0.0 is returned in this field.

Occurrence: Conditional

If this field (Override Reserve Price Allowed) is returned as true, all leaf categories on the site allow the seller to completely remove the reserve price for an active auction�listing. For information on removing or reducing reserve prices, see Setting a reserve price.

Occurrence: Conditional

If this field (Override Reduce Reserve Allowed) is returned as true, the seller can reduce or remove a reserve price that had already been reduced for an active auction�listing.

Occurrence: Conditional

An array that indicates the acceptable offline payment methods that can be used when listing an item for sale in the corresponding category.

Occurrence: Conditional

If this field (Reduce Reserve Allowed) is true, the corresponding leaf category allows the seller to reduce an item's reserve price. If false, this field is not returned in the response and the corresponding leaf category on the site do not normally allow sellers to reduce an item's reserve price.

This field is only returned when true (not returned when false).

Occurrence: Conditional

If this field is returned as true, the corresponding category is an eBay virtual category, a category in which items may not be listed.

This field is only returned when true (not returned when false).

Occurrence: Conditional

An array of the warnings that were generated as a result of the request. This field is not returned if no warnings were generated by the request.

Occurrence: Conditional

The category type for this error or warning. It takes an ErrorCategory object which can have one of three values:

• Application: Indicates an exception or error occurred in the application code or at runtime. Examples include catching an exception in a service's business logic, system failures, or request errors from a dependency.
• Business: Used when your service or a dependent service refused to continue processing on the resource because of a business rule violation such as "Seller does not ship item to Antarctica" or "Buyer ineligible to purchase an alcoholic item". Business errors are not syntactical input errors.
• Request: Used when there is anything wrong with the request, such as authentication, syntactical errors, rate limiting or missing headers, bad HTTP header values, and so on.

Occurrence: Conditional

Name of the domain containing the service or application.

Occurrence: Conditional

A positive integer that uniquely identifies the specific error condition that occurred. Your application can use error codes as identifiers in your customized error-handling algorithms.

Occurrence: Conditional

Identifies specific request elements associated with the error, if any. inputRefId's response is format specific. For JSON, use JSONPath notation.

Occurrence: Conditional

An expanded version of message that should be around 100-200 characters long, but is not required to be such.

Occurrence: Conditional

An end user and app developer friendly device agnostic message. It explains what the error or warning is, and how to fix it (in a general sense). Its value is at most 50 characters long. If applicable, the value is localized in the end user's requested locale.

Occurrence: Conditional

Identifies specific response elements associated with the error, if any. Path format is the same as inputRefId.

Occurrence: Conditional

This optional complex field type contains a list of one or more context-specific ErrorParameter objects, with each item in the list entry being a parameter (or input field name) that caused an error condition. Each ErrorParameter object consists of two fields, a name and a value.

Occurrence: Conditional

Name of the entity that threw the error.

Occurrence: Conditional

A description of the error.

Occurrence: Conditional

Name of the domain's subsystem or subdivision. For example, checkout is a subdomain in the buying domain.

Occurrence: Conditional