Product attribute 'attributes' is represented as array, map or string

[guisrx]

The 'get_products' method returns the object product with its attribute 'attributes' represented as array, map or string depending of the product type representation on Woocommerce. Can't parse it correctly this way.

[jasonknight]

Can you be a bit more specific with what you got, and what you expect.

[guisrx]

Sorry. When I executed a 'get_products' request I got this JSON bellow. Note the lines: "attributes":[], "attributes":{ and "attributes":"". The object Product has 3 different types for the "attributes" field. When I try to parse it in Java with Gson I got an error because it can't identify correctly the type.

{
    "action":"woocommerce_json_api",
    "arguments":{
        "include":{
            "categories":false,
            "featured_image":false,
            "images":false,
            "reviews":false,
            "tags":false,
            "variations":false},
        "order":"asc",
        "order_by":"ID",
        "token":"1234",
        "per_page":20,
        "page":1},
    "proc":"get_products",
    "status":true,
    "errors":[],
    "warnings":[],
    "notifications":[],
    "payload":[
        {
            "id":"16",
            "name":"Product1",
            "slug":"product1",
            "type":"product",
            "description":"Product1 anything ...",
            "short_description":"product description ....",
            "parent_id":"0",
            "publishing":"publish",
            "sku":"",
            "downloadable":"no",
            "visibility":"visible",
            "virtual":"no",
            "manage_stock":"yes",
            "sold_individually":"no",
            "featured":"no",
            "allow_backorders":"no",
            "quantity":"50",
            "height":"",
            "weight":"1",
            "length":"",
            "price":"20",
            "regular_price":"15",
            "sale_price":"20",
            "sale_from":"",
            "sale_to":"",
            "status":"instock",
            "attributes":[],
            "tax_class":"",
            "tax_status":"none",
            "product_type":"simple"},
        {
            "id":"22",
            "name":"Product 3",
            "slug":"product-3",
            "type":"product",
            "description":"product 3 description ....",
            "short_description":"description .....",
            "parent_id":"0",
            "publishing":"publish",
            "sku":"",
            "downloadable":"no",
            "visibility":"visible",
            "virtual":"no",
            "manage_stock":"yes",
            "sold_individually":"no",
            "featured":"no",
            "allow_backorders":"no",
            "quantity":"65",
            "height":"",
            "weight":"",
            "length":"",
            "price":"",
            "regular_price":"",
            "sale_price":"",
            "sale_from":"",
            "sale_to":"",
            "status":"instock",
            "attributes":{
                "size":{
                    "name":"Size",
                    "value":"small | medium | large",
                    "position":"0",
                    "is_visible":1,
                    "is_variation":1,
                    "is_taxonomy":0},
                "color":{
                    "name":"Color",
                    "value":"green | red | orange | yellow | black",
                    "position":"1",
                    "is_visible":1,
                    "is_variation":1,
                    "is_taxonomy":0}},
            "tax_class":"",
            "tax_status":"none",
            "product_type":"variable"},                                                                                                     
        {
            "id":"24",
            "name":"Variation #24 of Product 3",
            "slug":"product-22-variation-2",
            "type":"product_variation",
            "description":"",
            "short_description":"",
            "parent_id":"22",
            "publishing":"publish",
            "sku":"",
            "downloadable":"no",
            "visibility":"visible",
            "virtual":"no",
            "manage_stock":"no",
            "sold_individually":"no",
            "featured":"no",
            "allow_backorders":"no",
            "quantity":"",
            "height":"",
            "weight":"",
            "length":"",
            "price":"",
            "regular_price":"",
            "sale_price":"",
            "sale_from":"",
            "sale_to":"",
            "status":"instock",
            "attributes":"",
            "tax_class":"",
            "tax_status":"none",
            "product_type":"unknown",
            "featured_image":[]}],
    "statistics":{
        "products":"3",
        "products_in_trash":"0",
        "variations":"1",
        "orders":"0",
        "user_id":1},
    "payload_length":4
}

Thanks. Selau.

[jasonknight]

K, see if that does it, not it will force it to always be a hash.

[jasonknight]

Also, would you be interested in sending me some notes about using Java to connect to the API? Also I am interested in your feed back, or ways it can be made easier. It'd be nice to add some documentation on using Java to connect to WooCom through the API.

[guisrx]

Yeah. It's working! Thanks!

I'm developing an native Android application to a store that uses Woocommerce. I will use Woocommerce as a back-end through woocommerce-json-api, so I will need full access to its functionalities. I will write a tutorial about using Java through the API.

Do you have some idea of when the cart functionality will be available on the woocommerce-json-api? Maybe I can contribute with some help implementing it.