The Variations response group is a parent response group that returns the contents of the VariationSummary and VariationMinimum response groups plus other variation details, such as item attributes, offers, and offer listings for each variation in the response.
Operations that can use this response group include:
The following table describes the elements returned by Variations. In the Ancestry column, the elements on the left side of a slash mark are the parents of the elements on the right side of the slash mark.
Variations also returns the elements that all response groups return, which is described in Elements Common to All Response Groups.
The following response groups are child response groups of Variations.
The following request was used to illustrate the XML response elements returned by Variations.
http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?
Service=AWSECommerceService&
AWSAccessKeyId=[AWS Access Key ID]&
Operation=ItemSearch&
SearchIndex=Apparel&
Keywords=Hooded%20Short%20Down%20Jacket&
ResponseGroup=Variations&
Version=2008-03-03The following response snippet shows the elements returned by Variations.
<ItemSearchRequest> <Keywords>Hooded Short Down Jacket</Keywords> <ResponseGroup>Variations</ResponseGroup> <SearchIndex>Apparel</SearchIndex> </ItemSearchRequest> </Request> <Item> <ASIN>B000CCIIT6</ASIN> </Item> <Item> <ASIN>B000CCIITQ</ASIN> </Item> <Item> <ASIN>B000CCONPO</ASIN> </Item> <Item> <ASIN>B000CCMQ1W</ASIN> </Item> <Item> <ASIN>B000CDDRJ6</ASIN> </Item> <Item> <ASIN>B000CCIISC</ASIN> </Item> <Item> <ASIN>B000CCIIRI</ASIN> </Item> <Item> <ASIN>B000BVA9AE</ASIN> </Item> <Item> <ASIN>B000CCMQFS</ASIN> </Item> <Item> <ASIN>B000CDDRJG</ASIN> </Item> </Items>This response shows that the ASIN in the response has ten variations.