Category and its structure

Question

Using Tridion Core Service which method would provide me a whole object of below tree

Core service provinding me whole xml but not .net object of ProductCatalog.

Answer 1

The SDL Tridion Core Service will return you a IdentifiableObjectData object when you call the client.Read() method. You can cast this object into a CategoryData object which will just contain the information about this Category.

There is to my knowledge no way of getting a Category object which contains the entire tree of Keywords, from the Category you would have to call:

client.GetListXml(categoryUri, new KeywordsFilterData() { IsRoot = true });

And for each of the Keywords returned you can then call:

client.GetListXml(keywordUri, new ChildKeywordsFilterData());

To get each of its children. An example of this I have displayed in my Item Selector on SDL Tridion World.