Editing drafted listings

[david olick]

Can we edit drafted listings yet?  I noticed in the docs it says drafted listings cannot be edited, but I don't know if that information is out of date.  It's also not clear if we can update the images of a listing.

If we can't edit them, is there a reason why we can't?  I'd think drafted listings would be part of the same system active/inactive listings are in.

The closest I can think of is deleting a drafted listing and replacing it with a new one... however the docs don't make it clear if I can delete a drafted listing (is deleting the same thing as editing to the docs?).  I don't really consider deleting a drafted listing and creating a new one is really equivalent when we can't edit all of the fields a listing can have.

The ability to draft listings on Etsy's website, from what I can gather from the Google Group history, has been available since 2011.  It's been 2 years.  I've been wanting to add support for drafted listings for quite some time.  Can I get any information as to when we can get proper API support for this?

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David Olick

Oriku Inc.

[david olick]

Also, is it possible to change an active listing into a drafted listing?  Or to be more generic... have a drafted listing be created with the same ID as a listing that was once active?

All we query for is active listings (via findAllListingActive) for updating, however it seems users are trying to update drafted listings.  Is findAllListingActive somehow returning drafted listings?

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David Olick

Oriku Inc.

[Matt Graham]

Hi David,

Adding the ability to edit draft listings makes sense. I've added a ticket on github to reflect this:
https://github.com/etsy/etsyapi/issues/50

We are not planning to allow changing an active listing to a draft listing for now. Once a listing goes out of draft state, we are not going to be putting it back. You can set a listing to be inactive to make it not sellable.

The API should not be returning listings in draft from findAllListingActive. If let us know if you see examples of draft listings being returned by that call.

Thanks,
Matt

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[david olick]

Looking at my importing code, I always double check the state to make sure it's active before adding it to my database.  Yet, somehow when I try to update them, they're in draft mode.

Is it possible you could check up on the history of listings to see if/when they were drafted and active?  The only things I can think of are: 

1. findAllListingActive is giving draft listings with an active state
2. listings are improperly being reported as being drafted when I check up on them (via /listing/# )
3. they're somehow changing from active to draft

Here's a few failed API calls where I check their state (before attempting to update them):

X-Etsy-Request-Uuid: ovnE2T1AwGwm5i8lp-SkJx6uNd13 (listing 150653627)

X-Etsy-Request-Uuid: 0eAk8s7Qt4jE3ivwd9X_jQKbMD4R (listing 150655602 - still being drafted?)

X-Etsy-Request-Uuid: _0y4k_WLL-aRCKMcRcIzdS2rvi3y (listing 150682596)

I'll look around for more clues, but as of right now I don't see how this is possible on my end (as it seems to be a relatively new issue and I haven't changed anything related importing in quite a while)

If there's something I can do to help debug the issue, let me know!  I'm a bit stumped as to how this is happening.

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David Olick

Oriku Inc.

[david olick]

Hey Matt!

Any updates on when the fix for "new listings are automatically set to draft" will be?

Also, you didn't answer some of the questions in my first post.  Can we update the images of a drafted listing?  Can we delete a drafted listing?

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David Olick

Oriku Inc.

[Matt Graham]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:20 PM, david olick <david...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Matt!

Any updates on when the fix for "new listings are automatically set to draft" will be?

Hi David,

This should be fixed now.

 

Also, you didn't answer some of the questions in my first post.  Can we update the images of a drafted listing?  Can we delete a drafted listing?

I've not had a chance to test this yet, but I would expect that you should be able to add images or delete to a draft listing.

Thanks,

Matt

[david olick]

For future people reading this thread:

The docs were wrong and you can edit listings in the draft state.  The github issue mentions this in the comments but this thread was never updated.

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David Olick

Oriku Inc.