Suspicious behaviour of BatchJob service when AdGroup was removed

Mariusz

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Oct 30, 2015, 11:24:11 AM10/30/15

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Hi all,

I noticed rather suspicious behaviour of BatchJob service when it comes to operations on removed AdGroups. The case scenario is updating BiddableAdGroupCriterion with new CpcBid for a keyword in removed AdGroup. I would expect service to return MutateResult with OperationAccessDenied error in errorList - behaviour similar to other services. What I am getting instead is an MutateResult with no errors and result set to AdGroupCriterion (instead of 1BiddableAdGroupCriterion`!) which is not populated with any values.

Does anyone else noticed same behaviour?
I hope this is not an expected behaviour but rather a bug. Returning OperationAccessDenied.OPERATION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_REMOVED_ENTITY would be much better and more consistent with other services.

Regards,

Mariusz

Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)

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Nov 2, 2015, 3:11:08 PM11/2/15

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Hello,

Would you mind providing the ID of one such batch job where this occurred, as well as the ID of the ad group you were attempting to mutate which exhibited this behavior? I'll pass those along to the engineering team so they can take a look.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

Mariusz

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Nov 3, 2015, 6:56:31 AM11/3/15

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Hi Michael,

I sent those details in private response to you.

Cheers,

Mariusz

Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)

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Nov 4, 2015, 9:04:31 AM11/4/15

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Hello,

I have confirmed with engineering that this is not intended behavior. They are currently working on a fix. I will let you know when I find out more about when it will be ready.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)

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Nov 4, 2015, 1:33:20 PM11/4/15

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Hello,

Engineering has determined a fix which will be available within a few weeks. I will ping this thread again when the fix is live. Thanks for reporting this issue!

Please note that the issue is only with the return value from the BatchJobService. The error is occurring as it should, but it's simply not being returned in the response due to a bug. You are not able to act on removed AdGroups in illegal ways using the BatchJobService, as you feared might be the case.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

Mariusz

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Nov 6, 2015, 6:23:13 AM11/6/15

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Glad to here this will be fixed. Can you confirm the bug affects all types of operations or just those on AdGroupCriterions?

Thanks a lot,

Mariusz

Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)

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Nov 6, 2015, 9:00:27 AM11/6/15

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Hello,

Currently, the bug affects all similar operations to the one you described for AdGroups.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)

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Nov 18, 2015, 1:43:51 PM11/18/15

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Hello,

Please give this a try again; the fix should be live now.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

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