/**
* Get categories using GetCategory2CS and GetCategories calls,
* and merge the categories
*
*/
public CategoryTypeCollection GetAllMergedCategories()
{
if (!siteMergedCategoriesTable.ContainsKey(apiContext.Site))
{
//Get all categories that are mapped to characteristics sets
CategoryCSDownloader categoryCSDownloader = new CategoryCSDownloader(apiContext);
CategoryTypeCollection cats = categoryCSDownloader.GetCategoriesCS();
Hashtable csCatsTable = new Hashtable();
foreach (CategoryType cat in cats)
{
if (csCatsTable.ContainsKey(cat.CategoryID)) continue;
csCatsTable.Add(cat.CategoryID, cat);
}
//get all categories
Hashtable allCatsTable = GetAllCategoriesTable();
foreach (CategoryType cat in allCatsTable.Values)
{
CategoryType csCat = csCatsTable[cat.CategoryID] as CategoryType;
if (csCat != null)
{
//copy category name and leaf category fields, since these
//fields are not set when using GetCategoryCS call.
csCat.CategoryName = cat.CategoryName;
csCat.LeafCategory = cat.LeafCategory;
}
else
{
//some category has no characteristics sets,
//but it may has custom item specifics
csCatsTable.Add(cat.CategoryID, cat);
}
}
CategoryTypeCollection catCol = new CategoryTypeCollection();
foreach (CategoryType cat in csCatsTable.Values)
{
catCol.Add(cat);
}
siteMergedCategoriesTable.Add(apiContext.Site, catCol);
return catCol;
}
else
{
return siteMergedCategoriesTable[apiContext.Site] as CategoryTypeCollection;
}
}
