Trying to add product with description via REST

Question

Apologies if this is a silly question, I'm sure it must be but I just can't seem to figure out how you are supposed to add a product's description via REST.

The REST API docs at http://devdocs.magento.com/swagger/index_20.html under the catalogProductRepositoryV1 list all the the available fields but description is not there.

Can someone advise which resource the product's description is managed through?

Answer 1

We need to add custom_attributes:

$productData = [
        'attribute_set_id'  => 4,
        "type_id": "simple",
        "sku": "test-SKU",
        "name": "Test",
        "price": 100,
        "status": 1,
        'custom_attributes' => [
                ['attribute_code' => 'description', 'value' => 'Test Description' ],
                ['attribute_code' => 'short_description', 'value' => 'Test Short Description' ],
            ]
    ];

Payload:

{
    "product": {
        "attribute_set_id": 4,
        "type_id": "simple",
        "sku": "test-SKU",
        "name": "Test",
        "price": 100,
        "status": 1,
        "custom_attributes": {
            "description": "Test Description",
            "short_description": "Test Short Description"
        }
    }
}