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Published: February 08 2013, 4:29:00 PMยทUpdated: August 26 2022, 1:43:41 PM

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I am using BulkDataExchangeService for ReviseInventoryStatus api and getting Error -21916254 'You have exceeded the maximum allowed containers'. Why ? - <BulkDataExchangeResponses xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents"> - <ReviseInventoryStatusResponse xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents"> <Timestamp>2013-01-31T13:08:25.448Z</Timestamp> <Ack>Failure</Ack> - <Errors> <ShortMessage>You have exceeded the maximum allowed containers</ShortMessage> <LongMessage>You have exceeded the maximum allowed containers</LongMessage> <ErrorCode>21916254</ErrorCode> <SeverityCode>Error</SeverityCode> <ErrorClassification>RequestError</ErrorClassification> </Errors>

Answer

The reason you are getting this error is because you can only pass upto 4 InventoryStatus nodes in a single request.

Please refer to the this link : http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/XML/docs/Reference/eBay/ReviseInventoryStatus.html#Request.InventoryStatus

The same rule applies to LMS too.

So what you need to do is in one ReviseInventoryStatus api request you should pass only 4 InventoryStatus nodes, but make multiple ReviseInventoryStatus api calls in one single upload file.

Here is an example :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <BulkDataExchangeRequests>
- <Header>
<SiteID>0</SiteID>
<Version>1271</Version>
</Header>
- <ReviseInventoryStatusRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
<Version>1271</Version>
- <InventoryStatus>
<ItemID>Item-1</ItemID>
<StartPrice>36.82</StartPrice>
<Quantity>1</Quantity>
</InventoryStatus>
- <InventoryStatus>
<ItemID>Item-2</ItemID>
<StartPrice>231.88</StartPrice>
<Quantity>1</Quantity>
</InventoryStatus>
- <InventoryStatus>
<ItemID>Item-3</ItemID>
<StartPrice>26.90</StartPrice>
<Quantity>5</Quantity>
</InventoryStatus>
- <InventoryStatus>
<ItemID>Item-4</ItemID>
<StartPrice>26.97</StartPrice>
<Quantity>3</Quantity>
</InventoryStatus>
</ReviseInventoryStatusRequest>


- <ReviseInventoryStatusRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
- <InventoryStatus>
<ItemID>Item-5</ItemID>
<StartPrice>97.98</StartPrice>
<Quantity>16</Quantity>
</InventoryStatus>
- <InventoryStatus>
<ItemID>Item-6</ItemID>
<StartPrice>38.45</StartPrice>
<Quantity>18</Quantity>
</InventoryStatus>
- <InventoryStatus>
<ItemID>Item-7</ItemID>
<StartPrice>85.62</StartPrice>
<Quantity>29</Quantity>
</InventoryStatus>
- <InventoryStatus>
<ItemID>Item-8</ItemID>
<StartPrice>89.14</StartPrice>
<Quantity>2</Quantity>
</InventoryStatus>
</ReviseInventoryStatusRequest>


---more ReviseInventoryStatus nodes -----


</BulkDataExchangeRequests>

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