[QUESTION] Send xml file

[viandanteoscuro]

Hi,

Can i send directly an xml string instead of a dict data?

I tried to pass an xml for an AddFixedPriceItem but a have an error...

The xml:

<AddFixedPriceItemRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
<Item xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
 <Country>IT</Country>
 <Currency>EUR</Currency>
<ListingDuration>GTC</ListingDuration>
...

but i got this error:

AddFixedPriceItem: Class: RequestError, Severity: Error, Code: 10009, No <Item.Currency> exists or <Item.Currency> is specified as an empty tag. No <Item.Currency> exists or <Item.Currency> is specified as an empty tag in the request., Class: RequestError, Severity: Error, Code: 10009, No <Item.Country> exists or <Item.Country> is specified as an empty tag. No <Item.Country> exists or <Item.Country> is specified as an empty tag in the request., Class: RequestError, Severity: Error, Code: 10009, No <Item.ListingDuration> exists or <Item.ListingDuration> is specified as an empty tag. No <Item.ListingDuration> exists or <Item.ListingDuration> is specified as an empty tag in the request.

Is it possible to send plain xml?

Or i must convert it to dict?

Thanks!

Massimo

[mmcc-xx]

I have the same question - I'm building an AddItem request in XML and converting it to a dict, but that conversion isn't working properly. There is a file input to the execute method - can that be used for an xml file?

Update:
I dug into the code a little bit and it would seem that no, an xml file can not be passed with the file argument.

Here's my kludegy workaround that seems to be working correctly.

I'm using a library called xmltodict.
The json library is also needed. This is because xmltodict outputs an OrderedDict and we need a normal dict, and the way I found of converting a nested OrderedDict to a Dict involves doing a json dump and load. Anyway...

say we have a string requestxml containing the following:

<GetCategorySpecificsRequest>
  <WarningLevel>High</WarningLevel>
  <CategorySpecific>
    <CategoryID>176985</CategoryID>
  </CategorySpecific>
</GetCategorySpecificsRequest>

I use the following to convert the xml to an OrderedDict, then a dict, and then do the request.

request = xmltodict.parse(requestxml)
request = json.loads(json.dumps(request))
response = api.execute('GetCategorySpecifics', request['GetCategorySpecificsRequest'])