DEPRECATED message No Availability for some countries

[Ephigenia]

UPDATE:

2021-12-31

After some more hints by @klim123123 I found out that the DEPRECATION warning appears when product availability is requested for a product that is not available in the country. So the ikea-availability-checker is still working as expected.

2021-12-17

At least since 17.12.2021 some IOWS2 endpoints for some countries reply with a deprecation warning ("IOWSStockAvailabilityService.GetStockAvailability.v1 API is now deprecated.") and no data at all. The following countries are known to not provide any data anymore:

• au
• ca
• gb
• hk
• jp
• kr
• my
• pl (only Warszawa)
• ru
• sg
• th
• us

The reply contains the following headers which hint that also other countries may be added to the list in the next future.

{
  'x-backside-transport': 'FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL',
  'deprecation': 'version="1", date="Sat, 31 Dec 2022 23:59:59 GMT"',
  'warning': 'IOWSStockAvailabilityService.GetStockAvailability.v1 API is now deprecated.',
  'link': 'alternate="Customer Item Availability. Enquire via slack #rrm-cia"',
}

The table will display "DEPRECATED" for requests that run into this deprecation error since 1.0.4 (fixed in PR #80

[Ephigenia]

Maybe the new developer portal and it’s APIs provide new possibilities: #84

[klim123123]

ru - works fine. no errors.

[Ephigenia]

It looks like the product id makes the difference. When I’m using 40482596 it works fine. Don’t know why they are making a difference in the product.

[Ephigenia]

I found out that when I use 40482596 with the stores from Germany I get the DEPRECATED message. So I guess that the deprecation message happens when a product is not available in a country. I was able to confirm my theory by searching in the german store for the product id: https://www.ikea.com/de/de/search/products/?q=40482596 which returns no results. I’ll change the note in the README so that it gets more clear.

[Ephigenia]

@klim123123 thanks for your feedback. I’m happy to see that the availability-checker still works :)

[klim123123]

Thank for you for your work!

[jeanf-flutterint]

I tried https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/search/products/?q=49318323 and got 1 result in North York but
ikea-availability stock --store 004,149,372 59227775 29027396 49318323

$ ikea-availability stock --store 004,149,372 59227775 29027396 49318323
┌──────────────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬──────────┬──────────────────┬────────────┬───────┬─────────────┬─────────────┬──────────┐
│ date │ countryCode │ country │ product │ storeId (buCode) │ store │ stock │ probability │ restockDate │ forecast │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────┼───────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────┤
│ 2022-07-05T19:50:14.197Z │ ca │ Canada │ 59227775 │ 149 │ North York │ 0 │ DEPRECATED │ │ │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────┼───────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────┤
│ 2022-07-05T19:50:13.893Z │ ca │ Canada │ 59227775 │ 004 │ Ottawa │ 0 │ DEPRECATED │ │ │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────┼───────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────┤
│ 2022-07-05T19:50:13.808Z │ ca │ Canada │ 59227775 │ 372 │ Vaughan │ 0 │ DEPRECATED │ │ │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────┼───────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────┤
│ 2022-07-05T19:50:13.892Z │ ca │ Canada │ 29027396 │ 149 │ North York │ 0 │ DEPRECATED │ │ │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────┼───────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────┤
│ 2022-07-05T19:50:13.802Z │ ca │ Canada │ 29027396 │ 004 │ Ottawa │ 0 │ DEPRECATED │ │ │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────┼───────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────┤
│ 2022-07-05T19:50:13.891Z │ ca │ Canada │ 29027396 │ 372 │ Vaughan │ 0 │ DEPRECATED │ │ │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────┼───────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────┤
│ 2022-07-05T19:50:13.918Z │ ca │ Canada │ 49318323 │ 149 │ North York │ 0 │ DEPRECATED │ │ │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────┼───────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────┤
│ 2022-07-05T19:50:14.074Z │ ca │ Canada │ 49318323 │ 004 │ Ottawa │ 0 │ DEPRECATED │ │ │
├──────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼────────────┼───────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────┤
│ 2022-07-05T19:50:13.904Z │ ca │ Canada │ 49318323 │ 372 │ Vaughan │ 0 │ DEPRECATED │ │ │

[Ephigenia]

@jeanpfrancois This issue is fixed by using a different API. This "new" API is used by the alpha channel only. Please read: https://github.com/Ephigenia/ikea-availability-checker#important-note

For your use-case please try:

npx ikea-availability-checker@2.0.0-alpha.3 stock --store 004,149,372 59227775 29027396 49318323

[jeanf-flutterint]

Yes, it works! Thank you!

[jeanf-flutterint]

I suggest adding CA in this list:
This package uses the undocumented iows2 api by IKEA which doesn’t work for several countries anymore: be, cn, fi, fr, gb, hk, ie, jp, kr, my, pl, ru, sg, th, tw, us