Access Sub Categories through PS Standard WebService feature

[yashman]

Hi,

 

PS Version: 1.6.0.11

Theme: Default with slight customization of Color and width

 

Background: I am using www.appery.io to create a mobile app for my website. For this I have activated the WebService in the PS. I am able to access the data perfectly but facing some issues where I need some guidance.

 

Kindly note, I am not a developer and am using the standard webservice features of PS

 

Issue: As understood for PS, Category or Sub Category both are equal. Based on the XML I saw through the webservice, the SubCategories are also stored as Categories but associated using associations. So far I have managed to access the Categories but I am not sure how to access the Sub Categories.

<prestashop xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
	<script id="tinyhippos-injected"/>
	<categories>
		<category>
			<id>...</id>
			<id_parent xlink:href="http://www.abc.com/api/categories/2">...</id_parent>
			<level_depth>...</level_depth>
			<nb_products_recursive notFilterable="true">...</nb_products_recursive>
			<active>...</active>
			<id_shop_default>...</id_shop_default>
			<is_root_category>...</is_root_category>
			<position>...</position>
			<date_add>...</date_add>
			<date_upd>...</date_upd>
			<name>...</name>
			<link_rewrite>...</link_rewrite>
			<description>...</description>
			<meta_title>...</meta_title>
			<meta_description>...</meta_description>
			<meta_keywords>...</meta_keywords>
			<associations>
				<categories nodeType="category" api="categories">
					<category xlink:href="http://www.abc.com/api/categories/36">
						<id>
						<![CDATA[ 36 ]]>
						</id>
					</category>
					<category xlink:href="http://www.abc.com/api/categories/35">
						<id>
						<![CDATA[ 35 ]]>
						</id>
						</category>
				</categories>
				<products nodeType="product" api="products">...</products>
			</associations>
		</category>
	</categories>
</prestashop>

In appery.io I am using the below code the access the Webservice. The below code gives me the header level Categories. Now I want to have the SubCategories.

http://www.abc.com/api/categories?ws_key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&filter[id]=[3,5000]&filter[active]=[1]&sort=[id_ASC]&filter[id_parent]=[2]

Appreciate if anyone can guide on how to achieve the same. This issue also applies to Products, Product Images etc. basically anything that is tagged under the associations tag. I tried to access the api with 

http://www.abc.com/api/associations/

but unfortunately this does not exist.

 

Edited July 3, 2015 by yashman (see edit history)