validate_only doesn't throw exceptions

[Дмитро Булах]

Hi there,

I got a problem with using `validateOnly` header.

when set to `True` I got no exceptions for malformed mutate operations.

I've just rolled back to example from https://github.com/googleads/googleads-python-lib/blob/9bfa25c1bbd45957a8d670c7d744523c8457dd32/examples/adwords/v201809/campaign_management/validate_text_ad.py and it doesn't print out any output.

Is there any other working approach for validating operations?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out.

Could you confirm if you are testing an error scenario? I asked because using validateOnly will only return errors if there were indeed errors in your request :

"If no errors are found, an empty response is returned. If validation fails, error messages indicate the failure points."

If you continue to observe issues, you may provide your customer ID, and the complete SOAP request (and response, if available) log, so our team can investigate further. You may send these details using the Reply privately to author option.

Best regards,

Peter Laurence Napa Oliquino Google Ads API Team

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[Дмитро Булах]

Thanks Peter,

Here's one of my sample mutate operations:
(I'm using python SDK and Test account)

adgroupOperations = [

  {

    'operator': 'SET',

    'operand': {

      'id': 114550458410,

      'biddingStrategyConfiguration': { 'targetRoasOverride': 1.0 }

    }

  },

  {

    'operator': 'SET',

    'operand': {

      'id': 'nosuchgroup',

      'status': 'OTHER',

      'biddingStrategyConfiguration': { 'targetRoasOverride': 'malformed' }

    }

  },

]

client.SetClientCustomerId(CUSTOMER_SERVICE_ID)

client.validate_only=True

adgroup_service = client.GetService('AdGroupService', version='v201809')

response = adgroup_service.mutate([adgroupOperations])

the second element in the adgroupOperations list is malformed and at least I expect to get EntityNotFound.INVALID_ID error but I get None response.
Could Test account be a reason for that?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out. Please give it a try to enable logging for the python client library.

Thanks and regards,
Xiaoming, Google Ads API Team

Xiaoming Google Ads API Team

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