Starting on
September 14th, 2016,
Productstatuses will return all the errors and warnings present in
the Diagnostics tab of Merchant Center. To explain the changes, first we separate errors and warnings for products into two categories:
- Validation issues are reported as a result of product insertion and update, and they include issues such as missing required fields or invalid item IDs.
- Data quality issues are reported later after either automatic or manual review of the data provided to Merchant Center, and they include issues such as product images being too generic or a non-matching price on the landing page.
Historically, only data quality issues were available from
Productstatuses, while validation issues required the developer to check the returned status from the insertion or update of the product. After this change, developers can retrieve
both data quality and validation issues using
Productstatuses, but this means that developers may see more issues returned by
Productstatuses than before.
Please note that the
includeInvalidInsertedItems URL parameter to
Productstatuses.list still defaults to
false. This means that, by default, calls only retrieve products which had no validation errors, and thus the retrieved products will only include data quality issues and validation warnings (if any). If you want to retrieve information about products with validation errors, please set this parameter to
true.
If you have any questions or feedback about the changes to issue reporting or other questions about the Content API for Shopping, please let us know on the
forum.
-Stevie Strickland, Content API for Shopping Team
