Exclude resourceName from response

[Zhisheng Zhou]

Hi. Team.

Is there a way to exclude resourceName field from response(Google Ads API)?

My Request body is something like:

{

     "page_size": 10,

      "query": "SELECT customer.id,customer.descriptive_name,segments.date FROM                                     click_view  WHERE segments.date = '2021-06-01'",

      "return_total_results_count": "true",

      "validate_only": "false"

}

And the response is like:

{

      "customer": {

               "resourceName": "customers/11111111111",

               "id": "11111111111",

               "descriptiveName": "LSS - EMEA"

       },

      "segments": {

               "date": "2021-06-01"

       },

      "clickView": {

                "resourceName": "customers/11111111111/clickViews/2021-06-01~Cj0KCQjwIsAJeDT0g---0zk2KJ5E1swerwersfsfsTkTDpBomqw7uJ2AT-SZSqhusRWECScB"

      }

}

As you can see, even I don't have resourceName in the query.
They still appear in the response.
I am trying to minimize the response size.

Is there an option to disable that?

Best,

Zhisheng

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Zhisheng,

Thank you for posting your concern.

Could you provide the complete request and response logs with request ID generated on your end for this report to further check? Please share it via Reply privately to author option.

Regards,

Ernie John Blanca Tacata Google Ads API Team

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[Pete Lavetsky (AdWords API Guru)]

Hey Zhisheng,

This question also came up recently in the Java client library board: https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-java/issues/438

Long story short it doesn't look like removing resource_name will be coming any time soon.

They are working on compression toggles tho.

Pete

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Allow me as well to create a feature request, subject for review, regarding this. That said, as an addition to what the client library owners mentioned in the Github thread provided by Pete, and aside from the thread itself, you may for now keep an eye on our blog for any possible updates or announcements related to this topic.

Best regards,

Peter Laurence Napa Oliquino Google Ads API Team

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