I have been playing with Amazon's Product Advertising API, and I cannot get a request to go through and give me data. I have been working off of this: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/2011-08-01/GSG/ and this: Amazon Product Advertising API signed request with Java
Here is my code. I generated the SOAP bindings using this: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/2011-08-01/GSG/YourDevelopmentEnvironment.html#Java
On the Classpath, I only have: commons-codec.1.5.jar
import com.ECS.client.jax.AWSECommerceService;
import com.ECS.client.jax.AWSECommerceServicePortType;
import com.ECS.client.jax.Item;
import com.ECS.client.jax.ItemLookup;
import com.ECS.client.jax.ItemLookupRequest;
import com.ECS.client.jax.ItemLookupResponse;
import com.ECS.client.jax.ItemSearchResponse;
import com.ECS.client.jax.Items;
public class Client {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String secretKey = <my-secret-key>;
String awsKey = <my-aws-key>;
System.out.println("API Test started");
AWSECommerceService service = new AWSECommerceService();
service.setHandlerResolver(new AwsHandlerResolver(
secretKey)); // important
AWSECommerceServicePortType port = service.getAWSECommerceServicePort();
// Get the operation object:
com.ECS.client.jax.ItemSearchRequest itemRequest = new com.ECS.client.jax.ItemSearchRequest();
// Fill in the request object:
itemRequest.setSearchIndex("Books");
itemRequest.setKeywords("Star Wars");
// itemRequest.setVersion("2011-08-01");
com.ECS.client.jax.ItemSearch ItemElement = new com.ECS.client.jax.ItemSearch();
ItemElement.setAWSAccessKeyId(awsKey);
ItemElement.getRequest().add(itemRequest);
// Call the Web service operation and store the response
// in the response object:
com.ECS.client.jax.ItemSearchResponse response = port
.itemSearch(ItemElement);
String r = response.toString();
System.out.println("response: " + r);
for (Items itemList : response.getItems()) {
System.out.println(itemList);
for (Item item : itemList.getItem()) {
System.out.println(item);
}
}
System.out.println("API Test stopped");
}
}
Here is what I get back.. I was hoping to see some Star Wars books available on Amazon dumped out to my console :-/:
API Test started
response: com.ECS.client.jax.ItemSearchResponse@7a6769ea
com.ECS.client.jax.Items@1b5ac06e
API Test stopped
What am I doing wrong (Note that no "item" in the second for loop is being printed out, because its empty)? How can I troubleshoot this or get relevant error information?
This ended up working (I had to add my associateTag to the request):
public class Client {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String secretKey = "<MY_SECRET_KEY>";
String awsKey = "<MY AWS KEY>";
System.out.println("API Test started");
AWSECommerceService service = new AWSECommerceService();
service.setHandlerResolver(new AwsHandlerResolver(secretKey)); // important
AWSECommerceServicePortType port = service.getAWSECommerceServicePort();
// Get the operation object:
com.ECS.client.jax.ItemSearchRequest itemRequest = new com.ECS.client.jax.ItemSearchRequest();
// Fill in the request object:
itemRequest.setSearchIndex("Books");
itemRequest.setKeywords("Star Wars");
itemRequest.getResponseGroup().add("Large");
// itemRequest.getResponseGroup().add("Images");
// itemRequest.setVersion("2011-08-01");
com.ECS.client.jax.ItemSearch ItemElement = new com.ECS.client.jax.ItemSearch();
ItemElement.setAWSAccessKeyId(awsKey);
ItemElement.setAssociateTag("th0426-20");
ItemElement.getRequest().add(itemRequest);
// Call the Web service operation and store the response
// in the response object:
com.ECS.client.jax.ItemSearchResponse response = port
.itemSearch(ItemElement);
String r = response.toString();
System.out.println("response: " + r);
for (Items itemList : response.getItems()) {
System.out.println(itemList);
for (Item itemObj : itemList.getItem()) {
System.out.println(itemObj.getItemAttributes().getTitle()); // Title
System.out.println(itemObj.getDetailPageURL()); // Amazon URL
}
}
System.out.println("API Test stopped");
}
}