Request Error: No ad to show.

[Adam Howitt]

I'm having trouble getting my DFP banner to show up. If I uncomment request.testDevices I see the test smart banner.  If I leave it commented it out I continually get the error caught by my didFail delegate method: "Request Error: No ad to show."

Here is my ad slot setup:

Here is my order and line item setup:

and here is the code:

NSString * const kDFPAdUnit320x50 = @"/mynetworkid/myadid"; 

...

-(CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section {

    if (section== 0) {

        return 60.0;

    } else {

        return 0.0;

    }

}

-(UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section {

    if (section == 0) {

        if (!bannerView_) {

            bannerView_ = [[DFPBannerView alloc] initWithAdSize:kGADAdSizeBanner];

            

            bannerView_.adUnitID = kDFPAdUnit320x50;

            

            bannerView_.rootViewController = self;

            bannerView_.delegate = self;

            GADRequest *request = [GADRequest request];

            //request.testDevices = @[ @"mydevice" ];

            [bannerView_ loadRequest:request];

        }

        return bannerView_;

    } else {

        return nil;

    }

}

- (void)adViewDidReceiveAd:(DFPBannerView *)bannerView {

    DLog(@"Got banner");

}

- (void)adView:(DFPBannerView *)bannerView

didFailToReceiveAdWithError:(GADRequestError *)error {

    DLog(@"%@",[error description]);

    bannerView_ = nil;

}

[Adam Howitt]

Weirdly enough the DFP console now shows 9 impressions, none of which have appeared on my device yet.

[Adam Howitt]

Oh - and I see this in the console on the simulator

<Google> To get test ads on this device, call: request.testDevices = @[ GAD_SIMULATOR_ID ];

and a similar thing when running on the device:

<Google> To get test ads on this device, call: request.testDevices = @[ @"xxxxx" ];

But I'm not trying to get test ads - the line item I created was a house ads line item where impressions and CTR aren't important.  Is there a switch to tell it to serve impressions? Does it matter that I'm running the debug build and not an ad hoc?

On Friday, May 16, 2014 11:49:42 AM UTC-4, Adam Howitt wrote:

[Adam Howitt]

Okay - think I just figured this out. In my function I was returning the bannerview as the view for my footer (didn't work). I tried creating a view and then adding the DFPBannerView as a subview and all was well at last.  I moved the addSubView to the delegate method for receiving a banner.  Here's my final implementation for anyone trying to do do this (add a banner as a tableView footer:

NSString * const kDFPAdUnit320x50 = @"/networkid/adid";

-(CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section {

    if (section== 0 && bannerView_ != nil) {

        return 60.0;

    } else {

        return 0.0;

    }

}

-(UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tv viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section {

    if (section == 0) {

        if (!footerView) {

            CGRect footerFrame = [tv rectForFooterInSection:0];

            footerView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:footerFrame];

            footerView.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

            GADAdSize sz = GADAdSizeFromCGSize(CGSizeMake(320, 50));

            bannerView_ = [[DFPBannerView alloc] initWithAdSize:sz];

            //pad bannerview by five pixels above and below

            CGRect newFrame= bannerView_.frame;

            newFrame.origin.y += 5;

            bannerView_.frame = newFrame;

            

            bannerView_.adUnitID = kDFPAdUnit320x50;

            

            bannerView_.rootViewController = self;

            bannerView_.delegate = self;

            GADRequest *request = [GADRequest request];

            // Initiate a generic request to load it with an ad.

            [bannerView_ loadRequest:request];

        }

        return footerView;

    } else {

        return nil;

    }

}

- (void)adViewDidReceiveAd:(DFPBannerView *)bannerView {

    DLog(@"Got banner");

    [footerView addSubview:bannerView_];

}

- (void)adView:(DFPBannerView *)bannerView

didFailToReceiveAdWithError:(GADRequestError *)error {

    DLog(@"%@",[error description]);

    bannerView_ = nil;

    [self.tableView reloadData];  

}

[Eric Leichtenschlag]

I'm glad you got it working, although that code change shouldn't have affected whether the ad request was successful. Perhaps you just needed to wait a little longer for your DFP UI changes to propagate to all servers.

As for your code, a couple small best practices I'd suggest are to use the kGADAdSizeBanner constant and pass an origin in when creating the banner:

CGPoint origin = CGPointMake(0, 5);

bannerView_ =[[DFPBannerView alloc] initWithAdSize:kGADAdSizeBanner origin:origin];

Thanks,

Eric