PhysicalProductStockService - getStockAvailability

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Introduction

(Web) shops selling physical products to their customers place great value in fulfilling their client commitments. Important aspect is understanding the currently available stock. On this basis, the (web) shop is able to provide their customers with the correct delivery indication.

This operation allows the (web) shop to request the physically available stock of one or multiple products.  

Requirements:

  • This operation concerns physically available stock ready to be delivered within 24 or 48 hours, products that do not meet this criteria show a stock of 0 (zero). 
  • No account is taken of buyer restrictions such as delivery agreements, credit checks etc.
  • Product ownership is irrelevant in this operation. The only relevance is the physically available stock.
  • The QuantityAvailable24hrs availability is valid only during requests on workdays before the cut-off time.
  • Requests on workdays after the cut-off time and requests on non-workdays have to use the QuantityAvailable48hrs availability.

This operation only supports REST.

Authentication for this webservice

This operation does not need authentication. The UserName is only used for logging.

Operation getStockAvailability

Request

Parameter

Description

Cardinality

Approved values

ProductProduct composite1..1000
ProductId

Identification of the product for which the available stock is requested

1..1


ProductIdTypeThe identification type of the product 1..1 EAN
Example request
POST https://testservices.cb.nl/rest/api/v1/PhysicalProductStockService/getStockAvailability HTTP/1.1
UserName: _SNIP_
Content-Type: application/json
  
{
    "Product": [
    {"ProductId": "9780582275225","ProductIdType": "EAN"},
    {"ProductId": "9783259011928","ProductIdType": "EAN"}
    ]
}

Reply

Parameter

Description

Cardinality

Approved values

StockAvailabilityStock availability composite1..n
ProductIdIdentification of the product for which the available stock is requested1..1


ProductIdTypeThe identification type of the product1..1EAN
QuantityAvailable24hrsThe number of products available at the time of this request and ready for delivery within 24 hours.1..1
QuantityAvailable48hrsThe number of products available at the time of this request and ready for delivery within 48 hours. This includes delivery within 24 hours.1..1
Example reply - without message
{
  "StockAvailability": [
    {
      "ProductId": "9780582275225",
      "ProductIdType": "EAN",
      "QuantityAvailable24hrs": "54",
      "QuantityAvailable48hrs": "1554"
    },
    {
      "ProductId": "9783259011928",
      "ProductIdType": "EAN",
      "QuantityAvailable24hrs": "11",
      "QuantityAvailable48hrs": "11"
    }
  ]
}
Example reply - with message
{
  "Message": {
    "MessageType": "E",
    "MessageCode": "WMS-00011",
    "MessageText": "Invalid value for productIdType."
  }
}

Specific messages (type/code/text) for this webservice

Type

Code

Text

EWMS-00010The field productId is mandatory.
EWMS-00011Invalid value for productIdType.
EWMS-00012The field productType is mandatory.
EWMS-00013At least one product required
EWMS-00014The number of products is bigger than maximum 1000
EWMS-00015Product(s) not found
EEBS-11001Something went wrong in processing the request.

General webservice information

Content-Type

The content/body in the request and the response has to be / will be in json format.

Content-Typeapplication/json

Supported SSL/TLS protocols 

TLS ProtocolsTLS1.2

TLS1.3

Authentication

CB uses message level authentication based on header parameters “UserName” and “Password”. These will be provided when you sign up for this service at CB.

Response messages

If a webservice is technical able to process, it will respond with a HTTP status 200. The response can contain a message with additional information. It can be an error (MessageType “E”) in case it wasn’t possible to supply a functional answer or additional explanation/information about the answer (MessageType “I”).

A message contains of:

A message contains of:
MessageTypeE or I
MessageCodeformat XXX-99999
MessageTextTextual information/reason

The following generic error (E) messages are defined:

WMS-00002Invalid username/password combination
WMS-00004Not authorized to use this service
WMS-00005No username and/or password provided by the caller
EBS-11000Something went wrong in processing the request
EBS-11001Something went wrong in processing the request

Optional parameter

For any optional attribute one of the following options applies:

  • be filled with the correct value
  • be left out
  • be filled with “” (read empty)

An optional parameter may therefore never be filled with the value null.

 Click here for Physical products for testing purposes

Physical products for testing purposes

Tests can be performed using the titles below:

EAN

Title

Publisher

9789000300914Spreekwoorden verklaardCB Test EAN's voor webservices
9789000307456Capitool Leuke uitstapjes in Nederland en VlaanderenCB Test EAN's voor webservices
9789047501596Basiskookboek bij voedselallergie en -intolerantieCB Test EAN's voor webservices
9789047512134over een filmauditie, dromen en bedrog & zoCB Test EAN's voor webservices
9789047515548Regen en sterrenCB Test EAN's voor webservices
9789047515715On Track Picknicken in de natuurCB Test EAN's voor webservices
9789047520689Niets meer te verliezenCB Test EAN's voor webservices
9789049104788Prisma miniwoordenboek NoorsCB Test EAN's voor webservices
9789049107024Prisma complete taalcursus SpaansCB Test EAN's voor webservices
9789077431047On Track Digitale fietsrouteplanner  Overijssel, Gelderland, FlevolandCB Test EAN's voor webservices

Volume limits and performance requirements

Metric

Value

Unit

Interval

Explanation

Maximale response time

2

second



Availability

24 x 7 x 365

The general availability of the service equals an average of 99.95% in prime time (08:00 - 01:00) in the standard time zone: UTC GMT +1. 

Outside this window, the web service availability may be lower, but never less than 95%. Planned maintenance by CB will be executed outside prime time and will be announced at least five working days in advance.

Exception: CB can start planned maintenance four times a year at 23:00 hours.

Planned downtime

10

hour

year


Unplanned downlime

10

hour

year


Performance

The average service response time is no less than 2 seconds in prime time (08:00 -01:00). Inside this window, 99.95% of the requests will be dealt with. Outside prime time, 99% of the requests will be dealt with within 6 seconds.