Error: The Value Already Exists - Is it possible to return the resource name (of the original object)?

[F B]

I've been wondering if there is a good way of retrieving the resource_name of an object that already exists.

Say I am creating new conversion actions and realize, ohh the value already exists. It would be nice to just get back the resource name and use that name. The way I see it I would have to query for the resource name if I encounter this particular error.

Fault: {

  "errors": [

    {

      "errorCode": {

        "conversionActionError": "DUPLICATE_NAME"

      },

      "message": "The specified conversion action name already exists.",

      "trigger": {

        "stringValue": "Call Conversion Action V2"

      },

      "location": {

        "fieldPathElements": [

          {

            "fieldName": "operations",

            "index": "0"

          },

          {

            "fieldName": "create"

          },

          {

            "fieldName": "name"

          }

        ]

      }

    }

  ]

}

Cheers

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out. Could you confirm if you wish to check if the conversion_action.name already exists before saving? If yes, you could check ConversionActionService and use GetConversionAction method in order to check if the name already exists before using MutateConversionActions.

Let me know if this answers your concern, feel free to write back if you have any clarification.

Regards,
Dave Paurillo
Google Ads API Team

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[F B]

Hi there,

This would work if I knew the resource name of the conversion action, which at this point I don't.

As far as I understand one can only check if they already know the resource_name. The way I see it this would only come up if you want to confirm that a particular resource still exists and has not been deleted in the meantime. It does not help you to prevent creating duplicates. 

Which brings me to a new problem, for me the following query does not return any results:

    conversion_actions = """

        SELECT

             conversion_action.name,

             conversion_action.include_in_conversions_metric,

             conversion_action.type,

             conversion_action.category,

             conversion_action.resource_name

        FROM

             conversion_action

    """

although there certainly are conversion_actions present in the account.

[F B]

I just confirmed that there seems to be a bug. I did create a new conversionAction and noted down the resource_name

_ads_client = _get_ads_client()
service = _ads_client.get_service('ConversionActionService', version='v1')
res = service.get_conversion_action("customers/<my_client_id>/conversionActions/<conversionActionId taken from the result of the previously created one>")
print(res)

yields no results.

However, doing the same thing for a sitelink works perfectly fine.

_ads_client = _get_ads_client()
service = _ads_client.get_service('ExtensionFeedItemService', version='v1')
res = service.get_extension_feed_item("customers/<my_client_id>/extensionFeedItems/<SitelinkId>")
print(res)

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hi,

To further investigate this, could you provide us the complete JSON request and response logs when you are executing the ConversionActionService? Please reply via Reply privately to author. If you haven't enabled logging yet, you could enable it by following this guide.

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Dave Paurillo
Google Ads API Team

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