Can anyone tell me how can i get all the categories through server-side API

Regards

hmmm, we pull from and work with data in the database all the time... less often through the APIs.

You have already been through the list of Hotcakes API Endpoints?
https://hotcakescommerce...26405-REST-API-Endpoints 

There is a specific one for Categories
https://hotcakescommerce...Endpoints-for-Categories 

And if you're needing some more info, there are these two helpful articles and content from Will

https://hotcakescommerce...EST-API-Example-Solution 
https://hotcakescommerce...REST-or-Server-Side-API- [/list]

Great response, Ryan.

As a general FYI for all readers - It's generally never a good idea to directly query the database for any commercial or open-source application. The database is considered to be part of the core application and is subject to change during an upgrade. It can break the application that you've deployed or even invalidate support.

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Oh, and here is the server-side API code to call to get a list of categories:

var HccApp = HotcakesApplication.Current;
var allCats = HccApp.CatalogServices.Categories.FindAllSnapshotsPaged(1, 5000);

You can see an example of that below:

https://github.com/Hotca...g/Categories.aspx.cs#L73 

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Is it workable for multilanguage portal?

Hi,
I tried the code
var HccApp = HccAppHelper.InitHccApp();
var allCats = HccApp.CatalogServices.Categories.FindAllSnapshotsPaged(1, 5000);

but it's only returning the default language caption and properties, how I will get different language category property like name and rewrite URL

Hello:

Can you please provide some more details about what was returned? I'm not sure I understand. Thanks! 🙂

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Hi,
Thanks for the reply, I have multilanguage portal English and Arabic. Once I called the product through the server-side API, it is returning me the active language product information. (Like if I am in Arabic the Arabic product data I received and When I am in English the English data is receiving).

But when it comes to categories, whatever the language I selected it's only returning me the English data. I already make sure the translation exists.

I don't know why this is the behaviour of API. Temporarily I collected data from the database but I want to that with API

Have you debugged the API call? When you do, please check the code to see if you're specifying the language and also inspect the request to see if the headers are being sent with a language parameter. Even in a threaded context, you should be able to see that by debugging it.

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I found very strange thing :S, Once I tried to deploy the module on the pages which created by HCC wizard, it returning me the correct value, but when i placed the same module in my customer DNN page it is only getting the English URL. In both cases the culture set as ar-SA. I did not get why it is behaving like that.

The setting is showing me ar-SA in both pages.

I sorted out the issue
I import using Hotcakes.Commerce.Dnn.Web; and then inherit HotcakesModuleBase instead of Dotnetnuke.Entities.Module.PortalModuleBase

using Hotcakes.Commerce.Dnn.Web;
public partial class Splash_Categories : HotcakesModuleBase
solved my problem

Ah... Yes, the Hotcakes base class extends the DNN PortalModuleBase class. Nice work!

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