The use case for returning quantity is as follows: - When a user is searching for a product from multiple sellers, his consideration of where to order may be based on price, shipping cost, delivery time, and the seller's quantity of that product. - If the user sees that a seller's quantity is low while another's is higher, they may choose the seller with the higher quantity to ensure their order doesn't get back ordered and delayed.
That's it. On Oct 12, 2:24 pm, Alex <[email protected]> wrote: > 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- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
