Variations Response Group

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.

Relevant Operations

Operations that can use this response group include:

Response Elements

The following table describes the elements returned by Variations.

Variations also returns the elements that all response groups return, which is described in Elements Common to All Response Groups.

Parent Response Group

The following response groups are parent response groups of Variations.

None

Child Response Group

The following response groups are child response groups of Variations.

Sample REST Use Case

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=2008-08-19
&Timestamp=[YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ]
&Signature=[Request Signature]

Sample Response Snippet

The 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.