UNKOWN error when attempting to create campaign with a conversion action

Meir Mouyal

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Jan 11, 2022, 5:13:03 AM1/11/22

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Requests are only getting this error when attempting to create a campaign with a conversion action.

The errorCode.requestError says "UNKOWN", and the message "The error code is not in this version."

I find it really weird as this has been working fine for months.

Request Id: Um9s-3rj9ukgWjZt_IX6gQ

Meir Mouyal

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Jan 11, 2022, 6:53:51 AM1/11/22

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This is the response body from another request

{
    "error": {
        "code": 400,
        "message": "Request contains an invalid argument.",
        "status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT",
        "details": [
            {
                "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.ads.googleads.v9.errors.GoogleAdsFailure",
                "errors": [
                    {
                        "errorCode": {
                            "requestError": "UNKNOWN"
                        },
                        "message": "The error code is not in this version.",
                        "trigger": {
                            "stringValue": ""
                        },
                        "location": {
                            "fieldPathElements": [
                                {
                                    "fieldName": "operations",
                                    "index": 0
                                },
                                {
                                    "fieldName": "create"
                                },
                                {
                                    "fieldName": "selective_optimization"
                                },
                                {
                                    "fieldName": "conversion_actions"
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    }
                ],
                "requestId": "AhDzrzsd2AbbKNgSVaqoCQ"
            }
        ]
    }
}

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Jan 11, 2022, 9:20:13 AM1/11/22

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Hi Meir,

Thanks for reaching out. Can you please privately provide us with the complete request and response logs so we can take a closer look?

Thanks,
Matt
Google Ads API Team

Matt
Google Ads API Team

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