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# List the category dictionary of a product catalog
Management\
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The dictionary is flat by default: every row carries the full, separator-terminated category path in `slug` (`electronics/phones/`) and its own segment name in `name`. Pass `parent` to walk the tree one level at a time, or `slug[startsWith]` to take a whole branch at once.
````json
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