Hi Hans,

My understanding is that it will truncate the file without respect to
the XML structure, resulting in an invalid XML file.

Best,
- Eric

On Nov 18, 4:42 pm, HK <hravn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Eric,
>
> I appreciate you taking the time to look into this. I will let you
> know if I see this again.
>
> One question related to intentional truncation - if AdWords truncates
> a report file at 250 MB, will it just omit records at the end so that
> the report is still a valid XML file, or will it just chop the file
> whenever it hits this limit, likely creating an invalid XML file? I
> would prefer the latter so that this scenario will easily be detected
> on the caller's side, otherwise it'd be difficult to determine if
> records are missing or not. Just curious what the expected behavior
> is. I suspect the file will still be valid.
>
> Thanks
> Hans
>
> On Nov 17, 8:36 am, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Hans,
>
> > Thank you for the extra information.  The truncation does take place
> > on the uncompressed size of the report, but a truncation down to 100
> > MB doesn't make sense.  The server logs show that there were no errors
> > generating the report, so it is unclear what happened.  Since we can't
> > replicate the issue (the report re-ran successfully) then there is
> > little we can do now.  Let me know if you see this behavior again.
>
> > Best,
> > - Eric
>
> > On Nov 16, 8:16 pm, HK <hravn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi, Eric
>
> > > Our app calls getGzipReportDownloadUrl to get the URL and then
> > > uses .NET's WebClient class and DownloadFile method to do the
> > > download. It did not fail or error during the download. We run the
> > > same report every day (has been for a year), and a few days later, the
> > > same report succeeded and ended up being just over 200 MB. The data
> > > downloaded in these two reports should be pretty much the same.
>
> > > As a side note, I understand that AdWords will truncate files over 250
> > > MB (uncompressed I assume). If this truncation occurs, which I don't
> > > believe was the case here as it was cut short at just over 100 MB),
> > > will AdWords truncate the report in a way so that the XML is still
> > > valid, meaning, will it close out the XML elements?
>
> > > On Nov 16, 3:44 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > Hi Hans,
>
> > > > How does your application download the report?  Were there any errors
> > > > logged by your application while the report was being downloaded?  How
> > > > were you able to later verify the full size of the report?
>
> > > > Best,
> > > > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team
>
> > > > On Nov 16, 5:56 pm, HK <hravn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi,
>
> > > > > Last week I received a truncated keyword structure report. It was
> > > > > truncated at 109 MB while the full report, which now works fine,
> > > > > should've been approximately 216 MB. The report id was 996485045
> > > > > and .NET failed with:
>
> > > > > System.Xml.XmlException:
> > > > > Message: There is an unclosed literal string. Line 3, position
> > > > > 114483161
>
> > > > > This is the only only time I've seen this, but I'm a little concerned
> > > > > this could happen again whenever the circumstances are right.
>
> > > > > Would it be possible for someone in the AdWords group to take a closer
> > > > > look at this?
>
> > > > > Thanks in advance
> > > > > Hans- Hide quoted text -
>
> > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -

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