Method: GetCategoryInfo

Description

Get information about the given category.

Input

The input of this method is the document element ns:GetCategoryInfoRequest of type having the structure defined by the following table.

Element	Type	Description
ns:MessageID	xs:string	If you pass a value in MessageID in a request, we'll return the same value in CorrelationID in the response.
any
ns:CategoryID	xs:string	Use an ID of -1 to retrieve the root category and the top-level (level 1) meta categories.
ns:IncludeSelector	xs:string	Defines standard subsets of fields to return within the response.

Output

The output of this method is the document element ns:GetCategoryInfoResponse of type having the structure defined by the following table.

Element	Type	Description
ns:Timestamp	xs:dateTime	This value represents the date and time when eBay processed the request.
ns:Ack	ns:AckCodeType	Indicates whether the call was successfully processed by eBay.
ns:Errors	ns:ErrorType	A list of application-level errors or warnings (if any) that were raised when eBay processed the request.
ns:Build	xs:string	This refers to the particular software build that eBay used when processing the request and generating the response.
ns:Version	xs:string	The release version that eBay used to process the request.
ns:CorrelationID	xs:string	If you pass a value in MessageID in a request, we will return the same value in CorrelationID in the response.
any
ns:CategoryArray	ns:CategoryArrayType	List of the returned categories.
ns:CategoryCount	xs:int	Indicates the number of categories returned (i.e., the number of CategoryType objects in CategoryArray).
ns:UpdateTime	xs:dateTime	Indicates the last date and time that eBay modified the category hierarchy for the specified eBay site.
ns:CategoryVersion	xs:string	Indicates the version of the category hierarchy on the specified eBay site.

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