GET productcategories/{categoryID}

This call allows you to return a single category and its immediate children.

Request Information

URI Parameters

NameDescriptionTypeAdditional information
categoryID The category ID you wish to return integer Required

Body Parameters

None.

Response Information

Resource Description

This call allows you to return a single category and its immediate children.

CategoryModel
NameDescriptionTypeAdditional information
ParentCategory The parent category CategoryBaseModel None.
ChildCategories This only goes down a depth of one category Collection of CategoryBaseModel None.
CategoryFullPath The full path of the category. For instance Category 1 > Category 2 > Category 3 string None.
CategoryID The ID of the category. integer None.
CategoryName The Categories Name string None.

Response Formats

application/json, text/json

Sample: 
{
  "ParentCategory": {
    "CategoryID": 8,
    "CategoryName": "Electronics"
  },
  "ChildCategories": [
    {
      "CategoryID": 10,
      "CategoryName": "Accessories"
    },
    {
      "CategoryID": 11,
      "CategoryName": "Digital Cameras"
    }
  ],
  "CategoryID": 9,
  "CategoryName": "Cameras"
}

application/xml, text/xml

Sample: 
<CategoryModel xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <CategoryID>9</CategoryID>
  <CategoryName>Cameras</CategoryName>
  <ParentCategory>
    <CategoryID>8</CategoryID>
    <CategoryName>Electronics</CategoryName>
  </ParentCategory>
  <ChildCategories>
    <CategoryBaseModel>
      <CategoryID>10</CategoryID>
      <CategoryName>Accessories</CategoryName>
    </CategoryBaseModel>
    <CategoryBaseModel>
      <CategoryID>11</CategoryID>
      <CategoryName>Digital Cameras</CategoryName>
    </CategoryBaseModel>
  </ChildCategories>
</CategoryModel>