Unable to list products or categories in WooCommerce Rest API

Compare the capabilities for customer with that of shop_manager in the code: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/7b95988811a988053ae0c7e031ee75a3a838dff0/includes/class-wc-install.php#L653-L699

You’d need more than just manage_woocommerce methinks; Likely ‘manage_categories`.

Ok, I manged to achieve it by granting specific access to products, product_categories, etc. to the customer role.
But I don’t know why do I even need to do this? Shouldn’t listing products and their categories be publicly available to anyone? Even those unregistered?
Or should not a Customer be able to view/manage his/her own order?

I am also facing the same issue help me out

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by vandan19.

This issue should not be resolved. In fact, this issue makes developing apps with woocommerce highly problematic unless they are used only by shop_managers.

Listing items should be open for items like products for example. That have different behaviour than default rest API and default rest API endpoint doesn’t pass enough attributes to make use of it. Also, default endpoint seam to have wrong endpoint slug (product instead of products).

Surprisingly woocommerce on read checks if user can read_private_posts instead of just read. This can be fixed with below check, however, I am not sure what implication it have on security.

add_filter( 'woocommerce_rest_check_permissions',
	function ( $permission, $context, $object_id, $post_type ) {
		if ( $context !== 'read' ) {
			return $permission;
		}

		$post_type_object = get_post_type_object( $post_type );

		return current_user_can( $post_type_object->cap->read, $object_id );
	}, 10, 4 );