Search Shipping Item in Netsuite API - php

Question

I have this existing code snippet that searches list of records specified by its RecordType (e.g. InventoryItem, SalesOrder).
$request = new GetRequest();
$request->baseRef = new RecordRef();
$request->baseRef->type = $type; //Record Type
$request->baseRef->internalId = $internalId; //Internal ID of record
$getResponse = $service->get($request);
if ( ! $getResponse->readResponse->status->isSuccess) {
return 'ERROR';
} else {
return $getResponse->readResponse->record;
}
However, it seems that there's no Shipping Item in the list in RecordType although I can pass an internal ID. My goal here was to get the shipping item details to be used in my computation for creating a sales order (needs to be displayed before submitting).
Will there be a different approach in getting the shipping item record? How?

Answer 1

Shipping Item record is not yet supported in Suitetalk. As an alternate solution you can create a RESTlet instead to get the Shipping Item.

Answer 2

I can now successfully retrieve Shipping items via RESTlets. I uploaded this first as new in the File Cabinet, then added it as a new script. NetSuite does not allow direct upload of script file when creating a new script.
// get_record.js
function get_record(datain)
{
var record = nlapiLoadRecord(datain.recordType, datain.id);
return record;
}
Then used guzzle http library to call the RESTlet.
$url = "https://rest.sandbox.netsuite.com/app/site/hosting/restlet.nl";
$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$authorization = [
'NLAuth nlauth_account='.getenv('NETSUITE_ACCOUNT'),
'nlauth_email='.getenv('NETSUITE_EMAIL'),
'nlauth_signature='.getenv('NETSUITE_PASSWORD'),
'nlauth_role='.getenv('NETSUITE_ROLE')
];
$response = $client->request('GET', $url, [
'headers' => [
'Authorization' => implode(',', $authorization),
'Content-Type' => 'application/json'
],
'query' => [
'script' => '343', //script id
'deploy' => '1',
'recordType' => 'ShipItem',
'id' => '5905' // example of internal id of desired shipping item
]
]);
return json_decode($response->getBody());