DistinctError.DUPLICATE_ELEMENT while updating keyword destination urls with bulk BiddableAdGroupCriterion mutate

[Michael Ni]

I am doing bulk operations where I am updating destination urls of keywords

      {

        :xsi_type => 'AdGroupCriterionOperation',

        :operator => 'SET',

        :operand => {

          xsi_type: 'BiddableAdGroupCriterion',

          ad_group_id: ad_group_id,

          criterion: {

            xsi_type: 'Keyword',

            id: keyword_id,            

          },

          destination_url: url,

        }

      }

however for some of them, I get

{:field_path=>"operations[197]",

      :trigger=>nil,

      :error_string=>"DistinctError.DUPLICATE_ELEMENT",

      :api_error_type=>"DistinctError",

      :reason=>"DUPLICATE_ELEMENT",

      :xsi_type=>"DistinctError"}

my suspicion is that when a keyword is

 :approval_status=>"PENDING_REVIEW",

that additional mutate on the same keyword will trigger this.

am i wrong?

if I am wrong, what would cause the duplicate element error?  out of a batch of 10000 i tried looking for another operation with the same keyword and couldn't find any

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

Are you passing more than one AdGroupCriterionOperation for the same ad_group_id and criterion.id in the same request? It's possible that the API rejects such requests because one of the operations will overwrite the other.

Thanks,

Josh, AdWords API Team

[Filipe Costa]

Josh, what are you saying exactly? If I send more than one AdGroupCriterionOperation, for same ad_group_id and keyword_id, in the same request, it will reject n -1 and consider just one? Or will it reject all?

Thanks

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

If you specify partialFailure true then yes, the first one will succeed and the rest will fail. If you do not specify partialFailure or set it to false, then all of the operations will fail and you'll get a SOAP fault.

Cheers,

Josh, AdWords API Team