BrowseNodeInfo Response Group

Description

BrowseNodeInfo can only be used with the BrowseNodeLookup operation. This combination enables you to find the child and parent browse nodes of a specified browse node.

One application of this information is to use the child and parent browse nodes to traverse the browse node tree to either refine a search (child nodes) or to generalize a search (parent nodes). You do that using BrowseNodeLookup one or more times.

This response group is similar to the BrowseNodes response group. The difference is that the BarowseNodes response group is used with operations, including ItemSearch, ItemLookup, ListLookup, and SimilarlityLookup, that are based on item attributes, search indices, and lists, and potentitally return multiple items. BrowseNodeLookup coupled with BrowseNodeInfo enables you to implement your search using specific browse nodes.

REST Sample Response and Request

Sample Response Snippet)

The following code is a snippet from the full resonse. 

<BrowseNode>
  <BrowseNodeId>9</BrowseNodeId> 
  <Name>History</Name> 
  <Children>
    <BrowseNode>
      <BrowseNodeId>4762</BrowseNodeId> 
      <Name>Africa</Name> 
      </BrowseNode>
    <BrowseNode>
    <BrowseNodeId>5032</BrowseNodeId> 
      <Name>Russia</Name> 
      </BrowseNode>
    <BrowseNode>
    <BrowseNodeId>4853</BrowseNodeId> 
      <Name>United States</Name> 
    </BrowseNode>
    <BrowseNode>
      <BrowseNodeId>5035</BrowseNodeId> 
      <Name>World</Name> 
    </BrowseNode>
  </Children>
  <Ancestors>
    <BrowseNode>
      <BrowseNodeId>1000</BrowseNodeId> 
      <Name>Subjects</Name> 
      <Ancestors>
       <BrowseNode>
        <BrowseNodeId>283155</BrowseNodeId> 
        <Name>Books</Name>
      </BrowseNode>
    </Ancestors>
  </BrowseNode>
</Ancestors>
</BrowseNode>
</BrowseNodes>

The Request that Generated the Response (REST)

http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&
AWSAccesskeyId=[[AWS Access Key ID][&
AssociateTag=[[Associate Tag][&
Operation=BrowseNodeLookup&
ResponseGroup=BrowseNodeInfo&
BrowseNodeId=9&
Version=2007-01-17