4 messages in com.googlegroups.google-base-data-apiRe: payment_options and category attr...
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Anton S.13 Nov 2007 22:37 
Jeff S15 Nov 2007 16:59 
Anton S.18 Nov 2007 23:16 
Anton S.22 Nov 2007 00:48 
Subject:Re: payment_options and category attributes disappeared from GBase xml results
From:Jeff S (j.@google.com)
Date:11/15/2007 04:59:02 PM
List:com.googlegroups.google-base-data-api

Hi Anton,

On Nov 13, 10:37 pm, "Anton S." <russ@gmail.com> wrote:

I've noticed strange thing, we were going to implement feature based on payment_options in our project, and when we started to implement I realized that Google now doesn't return payment_options field (though it did a month ago). I don't mean that there are no such attribute at all, but there are really few items now that have it. A month ago almost all items had this attribute.

Yes it seems that we have deprecated the use of payment_options in favor of payments. I think the information is essentially the same. Take a look at our list of recommended attributes here:

http://base.google.com/base/api/itemTypeDocs?verticalName=products&verticalLocale=en_US

The above resource should be the most up to date version on what we recommend. Querying the attributes feed is also a great way to find out which attributes you might want to use, but the information in the feed is based on usage and will change organically over time.

And nearly a week ago I've also noticed that 'category' field disappeared from most of queries
tohttp://www.google.com/base/feeds/attributes/-/products .

I'm still looking into this one so I'll have to get back to you. If you look at this list here:

http://base.google.com/base/api/itemTypeDocs?verticalLocale=en_US

you can see the item types associated with the item-type-specific attributes.

What's going on?

Cheers,