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Use the below program to find a category in which the item has to be listed. You need to replace the text "INSERT_YOUR_TOKEN" with your user token. The assumption is that you are already using eBay SDK for Java.
package test.categorysearch;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import com.ebay.sdk.ApiContext;
import com.ebay.sdk.ApiCredential;
import com.ebay.sdk.ApiLogging;
import com.ebay.sdk.call.GetSuggestedCategoriesCall;
import com.ebay.soap.eBLBaseComponents.CategoryType;
import com.ebay.soap.eBLBaseComponents.GetSuggestedCategoriesRequestType;
import com.ebay.soap.eBLBaseComponents.GetSuggestedCategoriesResponseType;
import com.ebay.soap.eBLBaseComponents.SuggestedCategoryType;
public class GetSuggestedCategories
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
GetSuggestedCategories caller=new GetSuggestedCategories();
ApiContext apiContext = new ApiContext();
ApiCredential cred = apiContext.getApiCredential();
cred.seteBayToken("INSERT_YOUR_TOKEN");
apiContext.setApiServerUrl("https://api.ebay.com/wsapi");
ApiLogging apiLogging=apiContext.getApiLogging();
apiLogging.setLogSOAPMessages(true);
apiLogging.setLogHTTPHeaders(true);
GetSuggestedCategoriesCall call=new GetSuggestedCategoriesCall();
call.setApiContext(apiContext);
GetSuggestedCategoriesRequestType request=new GetSuggestedCategoriesRequestType();
try
{
BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
String query="";
System.out.println("Enter the product name(Type 9 to quit):");
query=br.readLine();
while(!query.equals("9"))
{
request.setQuery(query);
GetSuggestedCategoriesResponseType response=(GetSuggestedCategoriesResponseType)call.execute(request);
if(response.getCategoryCount()>0)
{
caller.processResponse(response);
}
else
{
System.out.println("No match found!!!");
}
System.out.println("Enter the product name(Type 9 to quit):");
query=br.readLine();
}
}
catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private void processResponse(GetSuggestedCategoriesResponseType response)
{
SuggestedCategoryType suggestedCategory=null;
for(int i=0;i<response.getSuggestedCategoryArray().getSuggestedCategoryLength();i++)
{
suggestedCategory=response.getSuggestedCategoryArray().getSuggestedCategory(i);
CategoryType category=suggestedCategory.getCategory();
System.out.println("CategoryID:"+category.getCategoryID());
System.out.println("Category Name:"+category.getCategoryName());
System.out.println("Rank(Higher the better):"+suggestedCategory.getPercentItemFound());
System.out.println("Parent Category Name:"+category.getCategoryParentName(0));
System.out.println("********************************************");
}
System.out.println("-------------------------------------------------");
}
}