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Commerce: Product category

Product categories are used to classify a group of products together, either by type (e.g. "Furniture"), or sometimes by tax profile.

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{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "#/components/schemas/CommerceProductCategory",
  "title": "Commerce: Product category",
  "description": "Product categories are used to classify a group of products together, either by type (e.g. \"Furniture\"), or sometimes by tax profile.",
  "type": "object",
  "allOf": [
    {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "id": {
          "type": "string",
          "example": "\"102\"",
          "description": "The unique identifier of the product category"
        },
        "name": {
          "type": "string",
          "example": "Entertainment",
          "description": "The name of the product category"
        },
        "ancestorRefs": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "A collection of parent product categories implicitly ordered with the immediate parent last in the list.",
          "items": {
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/CommerceRecordRef"
          }
        },
        "hasChildren": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "A boolean indicating whether there are other product categories beneath this one in the hierarchy."
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "$ref": "#/components/schemas/CommerceOrder/allOf/3"
    }
  ],
  "examples": [
    {
      "productCategories": [
        {
          "id": "100",
          "name": "Entertainment",
          "ancestorRefs": [],
          "hasChildren": true,
          "modifiedDate": "2022-01-01T12:00:00Z",
          "sourceModifiedDate": "2021-10-01T12:53:21Z"
        },
        {
          "id": "101",
          "name": "Cinema",
          "ancestorRefs": [
            {
              "id": "100",
              "name": "Entertainment"
            }
          ],
          "hasChildren": true,
          "modifiedDate": "2022-01-01T12:00:00Z",
          "sourceModifiedDate": "2021-10-01T12:55:02Z"
        },
        {
          "id": "102",
          "name": "Movie",
          "ancestorRefs": [
            {
              "id": "100",
              "name": "Entertainment"
            },
            {
              "id": "101",
              "name": "Cinema"
            }
          ],
          "hasChildren": false,
          "modifiedDate": "2022-01-01T12:00:00Z",
          "sourceModifiedDate": "2021-12-25T12:00:00Z"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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