Updating cart quantities
How to update the quantity of an item in your shopping cart
You have some items in your shopping cart and you want to update their quantity.

A sample cart quantity selection
To set the quantity of an item in your shopping cart you need to change its
quantity
attribute. To do that, send a PATCH
request to the /api/line_items/:id
endpoint.Request
Response
The following request updates the line item identified by the "aBmNkPQRst" ID with a quantity of 6:
curl -g -X PATCH \
'http://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/line_items/aBmNkPQRst' \
-H 'Accept: application/vnd.api+json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer your-access-token' \
-d '{
"data": {
"id": "aBmNkPQRst",
"type": "line_items",
"attributes": {
"quantity": 6
}
}
}'
On success, the API responds with a
200 OK
status code, returning the line item object updated with the new quantity:{
"data": {
"id": "aBmNkPQRst",
"type": "line_items",
"links": {
"self": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/line_items/aBmNkPQRst"
},
"attributes": {
"sku_code": "TSHIRTB5B5B5XL",
"quantity": 6,
"currency_code": "EUR",
"unit_amount_cents": 12900,
"unit_amount_float": 129.0,
"formatted_unit_amount": "129,00€",
"options_amount_cents": 0,
"options_amount_float": 0.0,
"formatted_options_amount": "$0.00",
"total_amount_cents": 77400,
"total_amount_float": 774.0,
"formatted_total_amount": "774,00€",
"name": "Grey T-Shirt XL",
"image_url": "https://img.yourdomain.com/skus/TSHIRTB5B5B5XL.png",
"tax_rate": null,
"tax_breakdown": {},
"item_type": "skus",
"created_at": "2018-01-01T12:00:00.000Z",
"updated_at": "2018-01-01T12:00:00.000Z",
"reference": null,
"metadata": {}
},
"relationships": {
"order": {
"links": {...}
},
"item": {
"links": {...}
},
"line_item_options": {
"links": {...}
}
},
"meta": {
"mode": "test"
}
}
}
The image below shows how the related action on the product quantity is mapped to a specific attribute of the line item object.

A sample cart quantity update mapping
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