deleteProductCategory

This method deletes an existing product category.

Description

This method removes the specified ProductCategoryRefNum from the product database. The product category is deleted immediately and this operation can not be undone. The ProductCategoryRefNum is the gateway assigned product Category ID that was returned by addProductCategory.

Syntax

boolean deleteProductCategory ( ueSecurityToken Token, string ProductCategoryRefNum)

Arguments

Type	Name	Description
ueSecurityToken	Token	Merchant security token: used to identify merchant and retrieve the custom fields.
string	ProductCategoryRefNum	Product category reference number used to delete a product category

Return Value

boolean

Returns true if product category has been deleted (on error an exception is thrown)

Exceptions

The following exceptions (errors) are applicable to this method.

Code	Message	Advice
41008	Failed to delete product category	Product category specified by ProductCategoryRefNum was not found. Make sure the number stored is not truncated or rounded.

Examples

PHP

For directions on how to set up the WSDL link, create “$token” and “$client”, go to PHP Soap How-to.

VB

        Dim catRefNum As String
        catRefNum = "9001169811"
        Dim response As Boolean
 
        response = client.deleteProductCategory(token, catRefNum)
        MsgBox(response)

.NET C#

            string catRefNum = "900116983";
 
            Boolean response;
 
            try
            {
                response = client.deleteProductCategory(token, catRefNum);
                MessageBox.Show(string.Concat(response));
            }
            catch (Exception err)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(err.Message);
            }

XML

Request:

Response:

Change History

Version	Change
1.3	Method added in this release

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