Is anyone successfully using the CJ web services? I just keep getting java.lang.NullPointerExceptions even though my app is .net (clearly their errors). CJ support doesn't even know what a web service is. I googled and found many people getting this or other errors. Question is: is it a temporary problem or am I doomed to parse manually downloaded reports for eternity?
The specific API I'm trying to use is the daily publisher commission service. Here is the WSDL.
Links:
After a spending many days, this code is working for me.
$client = new SoapClient($cjCommissionUrl,
array('trace' => 1,
'soap_version' => SOAP_1_1,
'style' => SOAP_DOCUMENT,
'encoding' => SOAP_LITERAL
));
$date = '06/23/2010';
$results = $client->findPublisherCommissions(array(
"developerKey" => $cjDeveloperKey,
"date" => $date,
"dateType" => 'posting',
"countries" => 'all',
));
I have successfully used CJ's API with PHP, though not this particular WSDL. I am seriously troubled by the lack of documentation and even cannot find any serious programmer using it (all amateurs basically trying to copy-paste). If you have some more experience we may be able to help each other out.
I had written a Python library for retrieving commission info from CJ. Here is the code: https://github.com/sidchilling/commissionjunction-python-lib
Works for me.
create a page cjcall.php forexample
paste this code and do according to your requirement i.e. keyword , dev id , records per page
include('../../../../wp-load.php');
$stringkeyw=urlencode(get_option('cj_keyword'));
if(get_option('rm_num_products')==''){
$pperkeyword=50;
}else{
$pperkeyword= get_option('rm_num_products');
}//number of products against keyword
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://product-search.api.cj.com/v2/product-search?website-id=".get_option('cj_siteid')."&keywords=".$stringkeyw."&records-per-page=".$pperkeyword."&serviceable-area=US");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Accept: application/xml", "Authorization:".get_option('cj_devid').""));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
create another page and paste the following code to bring xml from this page:
$hurl= home_url();
$homepage = file_get_contents(''.$hurl.'/wp-content/plugins/rapid_monetizer/cronjob/cjcall.php');
$object = simplexml_load_string($homepage);
foreach($object->products->product as $cjres)
{
//do your code with products coming in $cjres
}
EDIT: First and foremost, you will not get any results back if there are no commissions to report.
I am working with these API's, I have no problem with any of the REST API's, the SOAP API for the daily publisher commission service does not appear to be working. The results from:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:api="https://pubcommission.api.cj.com">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<api:findPublisherCommissions>
<api:developerKey>*DEVKEY*</api:developerKey>
<api:date>01/19/2007</api:date>
<api:dateType>event</api:dateType>
<api:advertiserIds></api:advertiserIds>
<api:websiteIds>123456</api:websiteIds>
<api:actionStatus>all</api:actionStatus>
<api:actionTypes></api:actionTypes>
<api:adIds></api:adIds>
<api:countries></api:countries>
<api:correctionStatus></api:correctionStatus>
<api:sortBy>commissionAmount</api:sortBy>
<api:sortOrder>desc</api:sortOrder>
</api:findPublisherCommissions>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
Which is completely valid and correct, gives me an HTML page back. Your error is probably related to parsing the page as XML.
The results are:
<html>
<head>
<title>Web Services</title>
</head>
<body vlink="#333333" alink="#FFCC33" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" marginheight="0">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td background="images/header_bg.gif">
<a href="http://webservices.cj.com"><img src="images/header.gif" width="600" height="63" border="0" alt="webservices.cj.com" /></a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3>Latest WSDLs</h3>
<table width=70%><tr><td>
<ul>
<li>ProductSearchServiceV2.0<a href="wsdl/version2/productSearchServiceV2.wsdl">[wsdl]</a><img src="images/new11.gif" width="40" height="15"/></li>
<li>LinkSearchServiceV2.0<a href="wsdl/version2/linkSearchServiceV2.wsdl">[wsdl]</a><img src="images/new11.gif" width="40" height="15"/></</li>
<li>PublisherCommissionService and ItemDetails V2.0<a href="wsdl/version2/publisherCommissionServiceV2.wsdl">[wsdl]</a><img src="images/new11.gif" width="40" height="15"/></</li>
<li>RealTimeCommissionServiceV2.0<a href="wsdl/version2/realtimeCommissionServiceV2.wsdl">[wsdl]</a><img src="images/new11.gif" width="40" height="15"/></</li>
<li>AdvertiserSearchService<a href="wsdl/version2/advertiserSearchServiceV2.wsdl">[wsdl]</a></li>
<li>FieldTypesSupportService<a href="wsdl/version2/supportServiceV2.wsdl">[wsdl]</a></li>
</ul>
</td></tr></table>
<h3>Previously Released WSDLs</h3>
For previous versions of the wsdls <a href="old_versions.jsp">click here.</a><p>
<h3>Sign Up</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="sign_up.cj">Sign Up</a></li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
I have sent them an email, and expect a response today. I will confirm with you that this API is still available, it may have been completely replaced by the Real Time publisher commission API.
I can make a user interface for you to lift your curse !!!
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Let me know here if you still need help.
Laravel has no issues calling to cj.com although i have to take the json and convert it to xml before processing it.
I took have had issues with their link lookup api. It will say I have many active advertisers but then will only give me one advertiser in 800florals. I too called cj and filed an issue. They closed the case in May without any correspondence.
This web site doesn't even function properly. You cannot upload a profile image like at all and regardless of file type.
