Ads API: New Customer auto_tagging_enabled IMMUTABLE_FIELD, no validateOnly option also?

[Joel]

I am trying to create a new Account and set autoTaggingEnabled. When I perform the operation I get back a message that this field is immutable - so how can I set this? Also, testing this is very cumbersome because there's no validateOnly option, so every successful call actually makes a new Account. Is there a way to do this with validation only?

Thanks!

Joel

// Build a new Customer object and populate required objects
Customer.Builder builder = Customer.newBuilder()
    .setDescriptiveName(StringValue.of(spec.name))
    .setCurrencyCode(StringValue.of(spec.currencyCode))
    .setTimeZone(StringValue.of(spec.timeZone))
    .setTestAccount(BoolValue.of(spec.testAccount));
    //.setAutoTaggingEnabled(BoolValue.of(true)); // IMMUTABLE_FIELD  message: "Field \'auto_tagging_enabled\' cannot be modified by \'CreateCustomerClient\' operation."

// Sends the request to create the customer.
try (CustomerServiceClient client = googleAdsClient.getLatestVersion().createCustomerServiceClient())
{
    // Does not have a validateOnly option
    CreateCustomerClientResponse response = client.createCustomerClient(spec.managerId, builder.build());
}

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hello Joel, 

The error indicates that you cannot set the auto-tagging while creating the account. You will first need to create an account and then perform the mutate operation to set the auto-tagging. Please find the code snippet below as a reference: 

CustomerServiceClient customerServiceClient = googleAdsClient.getLatestVersion().createCustomerServiceClient();
Customer customer = Customer.newBuilder()
.setResourceName(ResourceNames.customer(6664466450L))
.setAutoTaggingEnabled(BoolValue.of(true))
.build();
CustomerOperation operation = CustomerOperation.newBuilder()
.setUpdate(customer)
.setUpdateMask(FieldMasks.allSetFieldsOf(customer))
.build();

MutateCustomerResponse response =
customerServiceClient.mutateCustomer("6664466450", operation); 

The CID should be of the newly created account that you're mutating. Could you please give this a try?

Thanks,

Bharani, Google Ads API Team

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