FX

Shopping Service

Powered by Yahoo! Shopping

Shopping Service is a JavaFX application that search and displays
products using Yahoo! Shopping Web Services API. It can search for product offerings using text string queries.

Enter product to search (Ex: ipod, boombox) in text box and press enter key or click on button.	A list of products matching products will be shown. Click on a product to view its details.	Detailed information of product along with image is shown. Use and to scroll through list.
Click on thumbnail will zoom the image and will be displayed in its default size.	Move pointer over or click to view product URL.	Key Bindings: - Left Arrow - Right Arrow - Enter [Textbox] - Enter Key

Don't use the api-key used in this sample. Obtain your own key from http://developer.yahoo.com/shopping/

The response contains an XML document that has a list of products including the following information about each one:

1. Url
2. ProductName
3. PriceFrom
4. PriceTo
5. Thumbnail
6. Description
7. UserRating
8. Summmary

At the top of the Main.fx file, a constant appid is declared that is initialized with value returned by FX argument "yahoo_appid". Go to http://developer.yahoo.com/shopping/ to register and receive the App ID. Use the App ID to initialize the constant appid before running the program. The App ID can be passed as argument to application.

  // appid from http://developer.yahoo.com/shopping/
  def appid = FX.getArgument("yahoo_appid");

You can also directly assign the app-id string as shown below and rebuild the application

def appid = "<your yahoo app id>";

If you are using proxy-server for connecting to internet, please follow setup as specified in "Java Networking and Proxies".

References

• Yahoo! Shopping Web Services API
• Java Networking and Proxies