According to the API Docs, one can specify an array of attributes as a parameter when retrieving a product. What is the purpose in that?
The parameter attributes (it's a Array of catalogProductRequestAttributes) It is used to define which attributes about a product to retrieve in request response.
Note that the additional attributes will be returned in through the associative array named additional_attributes in catalogProductReturnEntity.
Example to retrive just product title, description, short description and price attributes.
// connect to soap server
$client = new SoapClient('http://magentoinstall.local/api/v2_soap?wsdl=1');
// log in
$session = $client->login('user', 'pass');
// product info
$attributes = new stdclass();
$attributes->attributes = array('product_title', 'description', 'short_description', 'price');
$productInfo = $client->catalogProductInfo($session, 'sku', NULL, $attributes);
Doing an analogy with Magento Collections, this has an effect similar to addAttributeToSelect() method.
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when you create products, you can add attribute sets to them. How do I access the attributes and attribute values for a product? – Kevin Wu Jan 20 '16 at 1:39
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You can retrieve this via
catalogProductAttributeListmethod: magentocommerce.com/api/soap/catalog/catalogProductAttribute/… – Denis Spalenza Jan 21 '16 at 2:39 -
yes, but that does not give me the attributes for one product. It gives me all attributes in the store. – Kevin Wu Jan 21 '16 at 3:06
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Could you tell me how to retrieve the label from an attribute that is populated from a dropdown? I can get the ID of the dropdown option from the method you mentioned, but not the descriptive label. (i.e - product_type is returning '5' and not 'Magazine') – richelliot Feb 6 '17 at 16:38
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