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Operations (p. 164)
General, Optional Parameters
The parameters in the following table can be used optionally in any Product Advertising API request.
Description
Value
Parameter
The only valid optional value is “Amazon”.
An optional parameter
that can be used to filter
search results and offer
listings to include only
items sold by Amazon.
By default, the API will
return items sold by
various merchants
including Amazon.
MerchantId
Specifies what subset of data to return. The API
Reference Guide specifies the response groups
that can be used with each operation..
Various
ResponseGroup (p. 213)
Version of the Product Advertising API 4.0 WSDL.
The default is 2005-10-05. If you want another
version, including the latest, you must specify it in
your request.
Various
Version
XSL Parameters
If you are using an XSL stylesheet to specify the output returned by Product Advertising API, you may
need to include some or all of the following (optional) parameters.
Description
Value
Parameter
The
Style
parameter applies to REST requests
only. Use the
Style
parameter to control the
format of the data returned by Product Advertising
API. Set this parameter to "XML" to generate a pure
XML response. Set this parameter to the URL of
an XSL stylesheet to have Product Advertising API
transform the XML response to another format you
specify.
"XML", the default, or
the URL of an XSL
stylesheet
Style
The
ContentType
parameter is valid for REST
requests only. The
ContentType
set in your
request is returned as the content type in the HTTP
headers of the response that Product Advertising
API returns. Generally
ContentType
should only
be changed when it is being used in conjunction
with an XSLT stylesheet specified with the
Style
parameter. When you use a stylesheet to transform
your Product Advertising API response to HTML,
set this parameter to text/html.
"text/xml", the default, or
"text/html"
ContentType
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