I’m adding some products though to a magento store front through the soap API from C#. The problem I am having is when I am inserting items into the store it is removing part of the SKU. Any insight or suggestions? Example soap message follows..
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Body s:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<q1:catalogProductCreate xmlns:q1="urn:Magento">
<sessionId xsi:type="xsd:string">**********************</sessionId>
<type xsi:type="xsd:string">virtual</type>
<set xsi:type="xsd:string">9</set>
<sku xsi:type="xsd:string">C16933A</sku>
<productData href="#id1"/>
</q1:catalogProductCreate>
<q2:catalogProductCreateEntity id="id1" xsi:type="q2:catalogProductCreateEntity" xmlns:q2="urn:Magento">
<name xsi:type="xsd:string">Beautiful Every Time</name>
<status xsi:type="xsd:string">1</status>
<visibility xsi:type="xsd:string">4</visibility>
<category_ids href="#id2"/><website_ids href="#id3"/>
<price xsi:type="xsd:string">1.99</price>
<tax_class_id xsi:type="xsd:string">2</tax_class_id>
<additional_attributes href="#id4"/>
<stock_data href="#id5"/>
</q2:catalogProductCreateEntity>
<q3:Array id="id2" q3:arrayType="xsd:string[1]" xmlns:q3="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<Item>10</Item>
</q3:Array>
<q4:Array id="id3" q4:arrayType="xsd:string[3]" xmlns:q4="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<Item>1</Item>
<Item>2</Item>
<Item>3</Item>
</q4:Array>
<q5:Array id="id4" q5:arrayType="q6:associativeEntity[16]" xmlns:q5="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:q6="urn:Magento">
<Item href="#id6"/>
<Item href="#id7"/>
<Item href="#id8"/>
<Item href="#id9"/>
<Item href="#id10"/>
<Item href="#id11"/>
<Item href="#id12"/>
<Item href="#id13"/>
<Item href="#id14"/>
<Item href="#id15"/>
<Item href="#id16"/>
<Item href="#id17"/>
<Item href="#id18"/>
<Item href="#id19"/>
<Item href="#id20"/>
<Item href="#id21"/>
</q5:Array>
<q7:catalogInventoryStockItemUpdateEntity id="id5" xsi:type="q7:catalogInventoryStockItemUpdateEntity" xmlns:q7="urn:Magento">
<qty xsi:type="xsd:string">0</qty>
</q7:catalogInventoryStockItemUpdateEntity>
<q8:associativeEntity id="id6" xsi:type="q8:associativeEntity" xmlns:q8="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">artist</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">Lee Brice</value>
</q8:associativeEntity>
<q9:associativeEntity id="id7" xsi:type="q9:associativeEntity" xmlns:q9="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">publisher</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string"/>
</q9:associativeEntity><q10:associativeEntity id="id8" xsi:type="q10:associativeEntity" xmlns:q10="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">writer</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string"/>
</q10:associativeEntity>
<q11:associativeEntity id="id9" xsi:type="q11:associativeEntity" xmlns:q11="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">key_signature</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">B</value>
</q11:associativeEntity>
<q12:associativeEntity id="id10" xsi:type="q12:associativeEntity" xmlns:q12="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">custom_cd_allowed</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">1</value>
</q12:associativeEntity>
<q13:associativeEntity id="id11" xsi:type="q13:associativeEntity" xmlns:q13="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">hardware_available</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">1</value>
</q13:associativeEntity><q14:associativeEntity id="id12" xsi:type="q14:associativeEntity" xmlns:q14="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">digital_download_allowed</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">0</value>
</q14:associativeEntity>
<q15:associativeEntity id="id13" xsi:type="q15:associativeEntity" xmlns:q15="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">msrp</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">0</value>
</q15:associativeEntity>
<q16:associativeEntity id="id14" xsi:type="q16:associativeEntity" xmlns:q16="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">mix_type</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">13</value>
</q16:associativeEntity>
<q17:associativeEntity id="id15" xsi:type="q17:associativeEntity" xmlns:q17="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">track_length</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">03:39</value>
</q17:associativeEntity>
<q18:associativeEntity id="id16" xsi:type="q18:associativeEntity" xmlns:q18="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">file_type</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">98</value>
</q18:associativeEntity>
<q19:associativeEntity id="id17" xsi:type="q19:associativeEntity" xmlns:q19="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">file_size</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">40125168</value>
</q19:associativeEntity><q20:associativeEntity id="id18" xsi:type="q20:associativeEntity" xmlns:q20="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">genre</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">10</value>
</q20:associativeEntity>
<q21:associativeEntity id="id19" xsi:type="q21:associativeEntity" xmlns:q21="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">vocal_type</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">120</value>
</q21:associativeEntity>
<q22:associativeEntity id="id20" xsi:type="q22:associativeEntity" xmlns:q22="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">has_male</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">1</value>
</q22:associativeEntity>
<q23:associativeEntity id="id21" xsi:type="q23:associativeEntity" xmlns:q23="urn:Magento">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">has_female</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">0</value>
</q23:associativeEntity>
</s:Body>
As you can see the SKU is set to “C16933A”, however, when the service call returns and I lookup the item in the store admin panel the result is
I was able to resolve my issue, what I had to do was add another item to the associatearray and set the sku again, I think this is a bug in the magento API, but at least I was able to find a work around for it.