Line item creation with custom targeting

[Jobeso]

Since it took me some time to figure this out, I want to share it with others to help you save time. When creating new line items with custom targeting the ts types do not help you with the structure. Custom targeting children can have multiple types so you might run into a soap error:

The type definition cannot be abstract for element children.

This means that you did not explicitly set the element type. If you want to do this you need to use the attributes field and set the xsi type. Children can either have the CustomCriteria xsi type or CustomCriteriaSet if you have multiple rules. So in the end custom targeting should look like this if you have just one targeting rule:

...
targeting: {
  customTargeting: {
    logicalOperator: 'OR',
    children: {
      attributes: { 'xsi:type': 'CustomCriteria' }, // This does the trick
      keyId: 123,
      valueIds: [987],
      operator: 'IS'
    }
  }
}
...

[Jobeso]

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