Amazon Product API: "Your request is missing a required parameter combination" on Blended ItemSearch
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I'm having some problems trying to do an ItemSearch on the Blended index using the Amazon Product API.
According to the documentation, Blended requests cannot specify the MerchantId parameter - and indeed, if I try to include it I get an error telling me so. However, when I don't include it, I get an error telling me that my request is missing a required parameter combination and that a valid combination includes MerchantId... what the hell? Here's the XML response:
<Items xmlns="http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/2005-10-05">
<Request>
<IsValid>False</IsValid>
<ItemSearchRequest>
<Availability>Available</Availability>
<Condition>All</Condition>
<Keywords> home theater pc and other geekery</Keywords>
<ResponseGroup>Similarities</ResponseGroup>
<ResponseGroup>SalesRank</ResponseGroup>
<ResponseGroup>OfferSummary</ResponseGroup>
<ResponseGroup>Small</ResponseGroup>
<ResponseGroup>Images</ResponseGroup>
<SearchIndex>Blended</SearchIndex>
</ItemSearchRequest>
<Errors>
<Error>
<Code>AWS.MissingParameterCombination</Code>
<Message>Your request is missing a required parameter combination. Required parameter combinations include MerchantId, Availability.</Message>
</Error>
</Errors>
</Request>
</Items>
The failing requests are being sent as part of batches with other requests that are succeeding.
I'm using REST to send my requests, so here's an example of a request:
http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?AWSAccessKeyId=-------------&
ItemSearch.1.Keywords=Mates%20of%20State&
ItemSearch.1.MerchantId=Amazon&
ItemSearch.1.SearchIndex=DVD&
ItemSearch.2.Keywords=teaching%20Lily%20various%20computer%20related%20skills&
ItemSearch.2.SearchIndex=Blended&
ItemSearch.Shared.Availability=Available&
ItemSearch.Shared.Condition=All&
ItemSearch.Shared.ResponseGroup=Small%2CSalesRank%2CImages%2COfferSummary%2CSimilarities&
Operation=ItemSearch%2CSimilarityLookup&
Service=AWSECommerceService&
SimilarityLookup.1.ItemId=B000FNNHZ2&
SimilarityLookup.2.ItemId=B000EQ5UPU&
SimilarityLookup.Shared.Availability=Available&
SimilarityLookup.Shared.Condition=All&
SimilarityLookup.Shared.MerchantId=Amazon&
SimilarityLookup.Shared.ResponseGroup=Small%2CSalesRank%2CImages%2COfferSummary&
Timestamp=2010-04-02T17%3A18%3A05Z&
Signature=----------------
Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?
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