For example, when you add Variations to the preceding request, the response includes, in addition to
what is shown, variations and their offers, as shown in the following response snippet.
<Offer>
...
<OfferListing>
<OfferListingId>4L2h0ymPZs3lDap8fU9Kw8hmKiPs5qVknFiifrviXAkRDZivZpZsSfTe0YM
Ltbo6MVWHTCzyKjT9UZI%2BpvF8Ax%2BFeSG29QGqQ4eF6ZspRD5fdxj8zmRp%2Bw%3D%3D</Offer
ListingId>
...
</Offer>
<Offer>
...
<OfferListing> <OfferListingId>PCOIjALkrkCts8UYi3pqf%2BqBaH5xbmJfiko
aB5fNhlF7yRMeh19NJxBEBBNz9GDFMMYtH0EI06Y1Vbar7raOf6ieUnzzST94RN8wwiXpEn2jaW
mZ%2F%2BYc7Q%3D%3D</OfferListingId>
Each of these offers is associated with an Item element and each of these items is a variation. The
following snippet, which comes from the same response, shows how each variation is differentiated by
size.
<Item>
<ItemAttributes>
<Brand>Eddie Bauer</Brand>
...
</ItemAttributes>
<VariationAttributes>
<VariationAttribute>
<Name>ClothingSize</Name>
<Value>Small Regular<Value>
</VariationAttribute>
<VariationAttribute>
<Name>ClothingSize</Name>
<Value>Medium Regular</Value>
</VariationAttribute>
<VariationAttribute>
<Name>ClothingSize</Name>
<Value>Large Regular<Value>
</VariationAttribute>
<VariationAttribute>
<Name>ClothingSize</Name>
<Value>X-Large Regular<Value>
</VariationAttribute>
</VariationAttributes>
...
</Item>
Returning Variation Dimension Information Only
The Variations and VariationSummary response groups return a great deal of information about each
item in the response.
To see the values of the variation dimensions
• Use the VariationMatrix response group in an
ItemSearch
request.
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