Destiny.Definitions.DestinyItemCategoryDefinition

Mobile Manifest Entity
In an attempt to categorize items by type, usage, and other interesting properties, we created DestinyItemCategoryDefinition: information about types that is assembled using a set of heuristics that examine the properties of an item such as what inventory bucket it's in, its item type name, and whether it has or is missing certain blocks of data.

This heuristic is imperfect, however. If you find an item miscategorized, let us know on the Bungie API forums!

We then populate all of the categories that we think an item belongs to in its DestinyInventoryItemDefinition.itemCategoryHashes property. You can use that to provide your own custom item filtering, sorting, aggregating... go nuts on it! And let us know if you see more categories that you wish would be added!
Mapped to Mobile Manifest Table: ItemCategories
Type: object
Object Properties
visible
If True, this category should be visible in UI. Sometimes we make categories that we don't think are interesting externally. It's up to you if you want to skip on showing them.
Type: boolean
deprecated
If True, this category has been deprecated: it may have no items left, or there may be only legacy items that remain in it which are no longer relevant to the game.
Type: boolean
shortTitle
A shortened version of the title. The reason why we have this is because the Armory in German had titles that were too long to display in our UI, so these were localized abbreviated versions of those categories. The property still exists today, even though the Armory doesn't exist for D2... yet.
Type: string
itemTypeRegex
The janky regular expression we used against the item type to try and discern whether the item belongs to this category.
Type: string
grantDestinyBreakerType
If the item in question has this category, it also should have this breaker type.
Type: int32
plugCategoryIdentifier
If the item is a plug, this is the identifier we expect to find associated with it if it is in this category.
Type: string
itemTypeRegexNot
If the item type matches this janky regex, it does *not* belong to this category.
Type: string
originBucketIdentifier
If the item belongs to this bucket, it does belong to this category.
Type: string
grantDestinyItemType
If an item belongs to this category, it will also receive this item type. This is now how DestinyItemType is populated for items: it used to be an even jankier process, but that's a story that requires more alcohol.
Type: int32
grantDestinySubType
If an item belongs to this category, it will also receive this subtype enum value.

I know what you're thinking - what if it belongs to multiple categories that provide sub-types?

The last one processed wins, as is the case with all of these "grant" enums. Now you can see one reason why we moved away from these enums... but they're so convenient when they work, aren't they?
Type: int32
grantDestinyClass
If an item belongs to this category, it will also get this class restriction enum value.

See the other "grant"-prefixed properties on this definition for my color commentary.
Type: int32
traitId
The traitId that can be found on items that belong to this category.
Type: string
groupedCategoryHashes
Mapped to Definition
If this category is a "parent" category of other categories, those children will have their hashes listed in rendering order here, and can be looked up using these hashes against DestinyItemCategoryDefinition.

In this way, you can build up a visual hierarchy of item categories. That's what we did, and you can do it too. I believe in you. Yes, you, Carl.

(I hope someone named Carl reads this someday)
Type: array
Array Contents: uint32
Mapped to Manifest Database Definition: Destiny.Definitions.DestinyItemCategoryDefinition
parentCategoryHashes
All item category hashes of "parent" categories: categories that contain this as a child through the hierarchy of groupedCategoryHashes. It's a bit redundant, but having this child-centric list speeds up some calculations.
Type: array
Array Contents: uint32
groupCategoryOnly
If true, this category is only used for grouping, and should not be evaluated with its own checks. Rather, the item only has this category if it has one of its child categories.
Type: boolean
hash
The unique identifier for this entity. Guaranteed to be unique for the type of entity, but not globally.

When entities refer to each other in Destiny content, it is this hash that they are referring to.
Type: uint32
index
The index of the entity as it was found in the investment tables.
Type: int32
redacted
If this is true, then there is an entity with this identifier/type combination, but BNet is not yet allowed to show it. Sorry!
Type: boolean