Hi J, The value should be <ns1:validateOnly>true</ns1:validateOnly>, not <ns1:validateOnly>y</ns1:validateOnly>.
Hope that helps. Let me know if you have more questions. Cheers, Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API Advisor. On Nov 18, 6:39 pm, J <j...@recessnetworks.net> wrote: > i was building my app using the sandbox, and when i just did a trial > run to add a campaign, i was running with validate only in the header: > > StartTime: 2010-11-19 02:16:24 > *** Outgoing HTTP headers > ********************************************** > User-Agent: ZSI 2.0.0 (http://pywebsvcs.sf.net);xml.etree.ElementTree > v1.2.6 > ************************************************************************ > *** Outgoing SOAP > ****************************************************** > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><ns0:Envelope xmlns:ns0="http:// > schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> > <ns0:Header> <ns1:RequestHeader xmlns:ns1="https:// > adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v20100 > 8"> > <ns1:authToken>xxxxxx</ns1:authToken> <ns1:partialFailure>y</ > ns1:partialFailure> > <ns1:developerToken>j...@recessnetworks.net++usd</ > ns1:developerToken> > <ns1:clientEmail>client_2+...@recessnetworks.net</ > ns1:clientEmail> <ns1:userAgent>AwApi-Python-13.1.0|robin test 0.1</ > ns1:userAgent> > <ns1:validateOnly>y</ns1:validateOnly> </ns1:RequestHeader> </ > ns0:Header> <ns0:Body> > <ns1:mutate xmlns:ns1="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/ > v201008"> > <ns1:operations> > <ns1:operator>ADD</ns1:operator> > <ns1:operand> > <ns1:name>1</ns1:name> > <ns1:status>PAUSED</ns1:status> > <ns1:startDate>20101118</ns1:startDate> > <ns1:budget ns2:type="ns1:Budget" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/ > 2001/XMLSchema-instance"> > <ns1:period>DAILY</ns1:period> > <ns1:amount ns2:type="ns1:Money"> > <ns1:microAmount>15000000000</ns1:microAmount> > </ns1:amount> > </ns1:budget> > <ns1:biddingStrategy ns2:type="ns1:ManualCPC" > xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> > <ns1:enhancedCpcEnabled>0</ns1:enhancedCpcEnabled> > </ns1:biddingStrategy> > <ns1:adServingOptimizationStatus>ROTATE</ > ns1:adServingOptimizationStatus> > </ns1:operand> > </ns1:operations> > </ns1:mutate> > </ns0:Body> > </ns0:Envelope> > > now... i saw that the response actually returned the new campaign > instead of returning None per the documentation around the purposes of > validateOnly! > > subsequently, running my app again, it errored out with > AdWordsRequestError: [CampaignError.DUPLICATE_CAMPAIGN_NAME @ > operations[0].operand.name] further proving that the sandbox doesn't > honor the validateOnly header. > > this seems wrong. i'd love to be able to test things out using the > sandbox a bit before i commit. i guess i can stick in random garbage > to existing objects' names to "delete" them... :/ -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en
