DFA/DCM Reporting Trafficking v2.0 Sandbox

[sunnyv...@gmail.com]

Hello,

Is there a sandbox environment for development purposes to interact with the v2.0 of the API for DFA/DCM Reporting/Trafficking?

If there is, could you direct me there?  

Thanks,

_sunny

[Jonathon Imperiosi (DFA API Team)]

Hi Sunny,

There is a sandbox version of the API, but it requires that you already have an account in the DCM sandbox environment. If you do have one of those, you can use the "sandboxv2.0" endpoint to interact with that account. Here's a link to the API explorer where you can play around with this API:

https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/dfareporting/sandboxv2.0/

Note that the API surface is exactly the same as normal v2.0, just that this version only interacts with the DCM sandbox environment. Note that there is no DDM Reporting sandbox, so only trafficking methods will work.

If you don't already have a sandbox account, you'll need to get in touch with the DCM support team.

Regards,

- Jonathon Imperiosi, DFA API Team

[ric...@richardhatcher.com]

Johathon, your post is the only place that I can find any mention of a DCM sandboxv2.0. The link https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/dfareporting/sandboxv2.0/ has no mention of a sandbox. 

Can you direct me to a DCM sandbox instruction page?

[Jonathon Imperiosi (DCM API Team)]

Hi there,

I'm not aware of any documentation on the sandbox environment specifically. Each API version starting with v2.0 has a sandbox equivalent, such as the one you linked to. These versions only interact with DCM accounts in the sandbox environment, which is entirely separate from production. If you don't already have a sandbox DCM account, then you won't be able to make use of them.

Regards,

- Jonathon Imperiosi, DCM API Team

[Richard Hatcher]

We currently use the APIs at https://www.googleapis.com/dfareporting/v2.2/ for production. 

Which URL would we use to access the APIs in a sandboxed environment?

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[Jonathon Imperiosi (DCM API Team)]

Hey Richard,

Every API version (2.0+) has a corresponding sandbox version named sandboxv2.x. For v2.2, the base sandbox URL would be https://www.googleapis.com/dfareporting/sandboxv2.2/. This is also exposed in the APIs explorer: https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/dfareporting/sandboxv2.2/.

Regards,

- Jonathon Imperiosi, DCM API Team

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Ahhh. Woot woot! Thanks. 

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[giulio...@gmail.com]

Hello Jonathon, I am trying to access the sandbox by using the .net library Dfareporting v2.2.

I could not find any documentation about it, so I decompiled the library itself looking for some clues.

By looking at the code I've noticed that there are a couple of readonly properties:

    /// <summary>
    /// Gets the service base URI.
    /// </summary>
    public override string BaseUri
    {
      get
      {
        return "https://www.googleapis.com/dfareporting/v2.2/";
      }
    }
    /// <summary>
    /// Gets the service base path.
    /// </summary>
    public override string BasePath
    {
      get
      {
        return "dfareporting/v2.2/";
      }
    }

One way to access the sandbox could be to extend the DfareportingService class in order to override these properties...but that's a very ugly solution: isn't it any better and tidier way to achieve the same ?

Thank you for your help,

Giulio D'Ambrosio (The Exchange Lab)

[Jonathon Imperiosi (DCM API Team)]

Hi Giulio,

Last time I checked I wasn't able to find a better way to do this, but I am not intimately familiar with the internals of the .NET client library. Your best bet would be to ask around on the client library specific support channels. If there isn't a better way, you could also open an issue on the libs github tracker to have this improved.

Regards,

- Jonathon Imperiosi, DCM API Team

[Ryan Semple]

Is there a way to hit the sandbox in the explorer, though? I tried typing in "sandbox" before the version number and it just dumps me back into the list of API services. 

[Ryan Semple]

Er that, and the link provided in previous messages ( https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/dfareporting/sandboxv2.2/)

[Jonathon Imperiosi (DCM API Team)]

Hi Ryan,

Just to confirm, you're not able to access the APIs Exporer link in your last message? Have you made a successful request any other way?

Regards,

- Jonathon Imperiosi, DCM API Team

[Ryan Semple]

I have, just not to any sandbox environment (Or whatever gets me to sandbox.google.com/dfa). That link with the sandboxv2.2 just winds up redirecting me to the list of APIs. I don't think there's a way for the PHP API client libraries I'm using to even hit a /sandboxv2.*, anyway. 

[Jonathon Imperiosi (DCM API Team)]

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware those links didn't work externally. I have the team here looking into why that is. In the meantime, you should still be able to make direct requests against the sandboxv2.2 endpoints. I'm not familiar enough with the internals of the PHP library to say what sort of config changes would be necessary to do that, unfortunately. I did take a quick look at the Google_Service_Dfareporting class and it seems like this particular value would need to change.

Regards,

- Jonathon Imperiosi, DCM API Team

[Ryan Semple]

Hey Jonathon,

Pardon the thread necromancy, but I'm wondering if there's a need for a "sandbox" API private key in order to access stuff on /sandbox[version number] for DFA/DCM API. I've finally gotten around to tweaking that value that you mentioned in the API client libaries but I can't really seem to think of a way to generate that key unless there's a separate, like, "Sandbox" developers console or something...maybe? 

No clue. 

Thanks for any advice you can impart.

[Ryan Semple]

Or do I use different scopes to hit the sandbox? I'm trying to use the same auth token so I figure the only thing that would differ would be the profile id# and the URL it should be pointing to, but it looks like it's not just that.

[Jonathon Imperiosi (DCM API Team)]

Hi Ryan,

The scopes are the same, but you aren't able to share access and refresh tokens between prod and the sandbox (they are fully isolated environments/APIs). You can reuse the same client ID and secret if you'd like, but you'll need to go through the authorization process and generate separate access/refresh tokens for each environment.

Regards,

- Jonathon Imperiosi, DCM API Team

[Ryan Semple]

Aye. I'll give that a shot. Thanks a bunch!