/*
* Gets a List of all categories tuples for a specified name.
*/
public List<RESTCategoryV1> getCategoriesByName(final String name) {
final List<RESTCategoryV1> output = new ArrayList<RESTCategoryV1>();
try {
BaseRestCollectionV1<RESTCategoryV1, RESTCategoryCollectionV1> categories =
collectionsCache.get(RESTCategoryV1.class, RESTCategoryCollectionV1.class);
if (categories.getItems() == null) {
/* We need to expand the Categories collection */
final ExpandDataTrunk expand = new ExpandDataTrunk();
expand.setBranches(
CollectionUtilities.toArrayList(
new ExpandDataTrunk(new ExpandDataDetails("categories"))));
final String expandString = mapper.writeValueAsString(expand);
// final String expandEncodedString = URLEncoder.encode(expandString, "UTF-8");
categories = client.getJSONCategories(expandString);
collectionsCache.add(RESTCategoryV1.class, categories);
}
if (categories != null) {
for (RESTCategoryV1 cat : categories.getItems()) {
if (cat.getName().equals(name)) {
output.add(cat);
}
}
}
return output;
} catch (Exception e) {
log.error(ExceptionUtilities.getStackTrace(e));
}
return null;
}
