The /snippets feed, as its name says, returns snippets. There is noguarantee that what you get back is the complete item that you have submitted to Base. In most cases, it will return the most imporant attributes. These usually are the required ones, and some recommended ones. In addition, you should be aware that Google Base doesn't guarantee all attributes you submit will be searchable (and returned as part of a search result). This is the case with the quantity attribute. If you really think an attribute should be returned as part of snippets, please let us know why and we'll consider the request.
With regard to the quantity field, can you please tell us your use-case, so that we better understand what you need. If you need all attributes, you can always use the /items feed to search over your own items. Then all attributes will be returned. But you should be aware of the following: (1) it is possible some of the attributes will not be searchable (e.g. quantity) so you won't be able to search using them ([quantity == 0] will return no results). (2) the /items feed requires authentication (not like /snippets feed) (3) the /items feed is not optimized for search but for data manipulation, therefore your requests might take longer. Thanks for feedback, Alex On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Celebird <[email protected]> wrote: > > the snippets seems to indicate that > there are no submitted items with a > quantity attribute for that account -- > so none being returned makes sense. > > i would look at both the sent and returned > xml during an insert -- either on the wire > directly or as returned from the api or both. > > the quantity shown on the website > may have nothing whatever to do > with the merchant-center unless > the attributes are verified as > submitted -- and with the proper > namespace -- by inspection of the > sent and returned xml during > a batch-insert. > > > -- Alex Dovlecel, Google Switzerland GmbH Company Identifikationsnummer: CH-020.4.028.116-1 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Base Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-base-data-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
