Setting sitelinkUrl throws DESTINATION_URL_DEPRECATED error

[Suresh Kumar Shenbagam]

Hi,

Language: Java.

I am trying to create Sitelink extension for a campaign and I am not able to set value to sitelinkUrl parameter and am getting the following exception,

 [main] ERROR c.c.a.ErrorContainer [] - ApiException{applicationExceptionType=ApiException, errors=[UrlError{apiErrorType=UrlError, errorString=UrlError.DESTINATION_URL_DEPRECATED, fieldPath=operations[0].operand.extensionSetting.extensions[0].sitelinkUrl, fieldPathElements=[FieldPathElement{field=operations, index=0}, FieldPathElement{field=operand}, FieldPathElement{field=extensionSetting}, FieldPathElement{field=extensions, index=0}, FieldPathElement{field=sitelinkUrl}], reason=DESTINATION_URL_DEPRECATED, trigger=}]}

Is this normal? How can I set the sitelink url for this extension through Adwords Java API?

Suresh

[Pete Lavetsky (AdWords API Guru)]

Suresh,

What is the destination URL you're attempting to set?

Pete

[Suresh Kumar Shenbagam]

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the response. I am setting the below url,

"sitelinkUrl":"http://sitelinke.com"

Suresh

[Suresh Kumar Shenbagam]

Update:

If I set the parameter sitelinkUrl to http://sitelinke.com - it throws DESTINATION_URL_DEPRECATED error

But, if I set sitelinkFinalUrls like this,

"sitelinkFinalUrls" : {

          "urls" : [ "http://cs.com" ]

        }

then it works.

Is it not possible to set value for sitelinkUrl parameter? I do not see any documentation mentioning this parameter is deprecated. Please clarify.

Suresh.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Suresh, 

The Destination Url field is deprecated and cannot be set through the API. These are replaced with Final URLs as part of the URL upgrade. Please refer to this help center article for more information. You may refer to our code samples in Java as a reference on how to add the Sitelink Extension. Code samples in other languages can be found here. 

Let me know if you have any further questions.

Thanks,
Bharani, Google Ads API Team 

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