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Lua Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Shopify Retrieve the item's inventory levels

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After you have the inventory item ID, you can use it with the InventoryLevel resource to find the levels and locations for the inventory item:

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Lua
local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
-- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

local http = chilkat.Http.new()

http.login = "SHOPIFY_PRIVATE_API_KEY"
http.password = "SHOPIFY_PRIVATE_API_KEY"

http.accept = "application/json"

-- How to get the inventory item ID

local resp = chilkat.HttpResponse.new()
local success = http:http_no_body("GET", "https://{shop}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2020-04/inventory_levels.json?inventory_item_ids={inventory_item_id}", resp)
if not success then
    print(http.last_error_text)
    return
end

print("Response Status Code: " .. resp.status_code)

local jsonResponse = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
jsonResponse:load(resp.body_str)
jsonResponse.emit_compact = false
print(jsonResponse:emit())

if resp.status_code ~= 200 then
    print("Failed.")
    return
end

-- Sample output...
-- (See the parsing code below..)
--
-- Use the this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON:
-- Generate Parsing Code from JSON

-- {
--   "inventory_levels": [
--     {
--       "inventory_item_id": 12250274365496,
--       "location_id": 6884556842,
--       "available": 8,
--       "updated_at": "2018-06-18T11:49:50-04:00",
--       "admin_graphql_api_id": "gid://shopify/InventoryLevel/6485147690?inventory_item_id=12250274365496"
--     },
--     {
--       "inventory_item_id": 12250274365496,
--       "location_id": 13968834616,
--       "available": 50,
--       "updated_at": "2018-06-26T14:44:30-04:00",
--       "admin_graphql_api_id": "gid://shopify/InventoryLevel/13570506808?inventory_item_id=12250274365496"
--     },
--     {
--       "inventory_item_id": 12250274365496,
--       "location_id": 13968867384,
--       "available": 100,
--       "updated_at": "2018-06-26T14:44:30-04:00",
--       "admin_graphql_api_id": "gid://shopify/InventoryLevel/13570539576?inventory_item_id=12250274365496"
--     }
--   ]
-- }
--

local inventory_item_id = 0
local location_id = 0
local available = 0
local updated_at = ""
local admin_graphql_api_id = ""

local i = 0
local count_i = jsonResponse:size_of_array("inventory_levels")
while i < count_i do
    jsonResponse.i = i
    inventory_item_id = jsonResponse:int_of("inventory_levels[i].inventory_item_id")
    location_id = jsonResponse:int_of("inventory_levels[i].location_id")
    available = jsonResponse:int_of("inventory_levels[i].available")
    updated_at = jsonResponse:string_of("inventory_levels[i].updated_at")
    admin_graphql_api_id = jsonResponse:string_of("inventory_levels[i].admin_graphql_api_id")
    i = i + 1
end