(Perl) Shopware 6 - List Categories

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use chilkat();

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

$http = chilkat::CkHttp->new();

# Sends the following POST

# POST /store-api/v3/category
# {
#     "includes": {
#         "category": ["id", "name"]
#     }
# }

# Use this online tool to generate code from sample JSON:
# Generate Code to Create JSON

$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$json->UpdateString("includes.category[0]","id");
$json->UpdateString("includes.category[1]","name");

# This request simply authenticate with the sw-access-key you can interactively copy from your 
# sales channel in the Shopware 6 administration web portal.



# We do NOT use OAuth2 for Store API requests.
$http->SetRequestHeader("sw-access-key","<sales-channel-api-access-key>");

# resp is a HttpResponse
$resp = $http->PostJson3("https://my-shopware-6-shop.de/store-api/v3/category","application/json",$json);
if ($http->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$sbResponseBody = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$resp->GetBodySb($sbResponseBody);
$jResp = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$jResp->LoadSb($sbResponseBody);
$jResp->put_EmitCompact(0);

print "Response Body:" . "\r\n";
print $jResp->emit() . "\r\n";

# If we get a 401 response, it may be that our access token expired and we need to fetch a new one.
$respStatusCode = $resp->get_StatusCode();
print "Response Status Code = " . $respStatusCode . "\r\n";
if ($respStatusCode >= 400) {
    print "Response Header:" . "\r\n";
    print $resp->header() . "\r\n";
    print "Failed." . "\r\n";

    exit;
}

# Sample JSON response:
# (Sample code for parsing the JSON response is shown below)

# {
#   "total": 2,
#   "aggregations": [],
#   "elements": [
#     {
#       "id": "00a284072bcb42ed8fee31e26ea53b60",
#       "name": "Home",
#       "apiAlias": "category"
#     },
#     {
#       "id": "bd835e75afa14b09b7da156d095a9a30",
#       "name": "Outdoors",
#       "apiAlias": "category"
#     }
#   ],
#   "apiAlias": "dal_entity_search_result"
# }

# Sample code for parsing the JSON response...
# Use the following online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON:
# Generate Parsing Code from JSON

$total = $jResp->IntOf("total");
$apiAlias = $jResp->stringOf("apiAlias");
$i = 0;
$count_i = $jResp->SizeOfArray("elements");
while ($i < $count_i) {
    $jResp->put_I($i);
    $id = $jResp->stringOf("elements[i].id");
    $name = $jResp->stringOf("elements[i].name");
    $apiAlias = $jResp->stringOf("elements[i].apiAlias");
    $i = $i + 1;
}