Hi Oddball, I tool I find useful when working with raw SOAP XML is soapUI:
http://www.soapui.org/ This program has the ability to generate a valid XML request based off of the WSDL, which you can then fill in with the desired values. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Friday, March 30, 2012 5:43:33 AM UTC-4, Oddball wrote: > > Hi Anash, > > I have since managed to move past this issue but are still encountering > many issues that take an age to figure out and while yes I can try to get > the VB.net library to work it's been 3 over years since i coded VB.net in > anger and at the moment don't have the time to mess around trying to get > something to compile so I can see some XML being sent to and frow. > > As a side note, while trying to find answers from other issues raised I > can see that I'm not the only one who would find having XML examples a > massive boon. It seems rather abitrary to ignore something that's been > available on previous API's and now that they've all been moonlighted > there's going to be more developers needing some rudimentary XML examples, > especially since 201109 is now so strick (and so so in it's errorrs on > trying to debug). > > I know I'm ranting but It's been a very trying few days over a bunch of > issues that would have been fairly easy to resolve with good, simple > examples of what I'm trying to achieve in the documentation like there used > to be. > > Oh and as for the example you gave, thanks for that it did work but opens > up a different question regarding (attempts) at understanding the structure > required as stated in the documentation, namely that bids is not explicitly > the parent of the ManualCPCAdGroupBids, it reads as if AdGroupBids is the > parent where the type is then set. > > That said I may have just missed an explanation of this behaviour. > > Regards, Oddball > > > On Thursday, 29 March 2012 12:06:19 UTC+1, Anash P. Oommen wrote: >> >> Hi Oddball, >> >> Yes, AdWords API has xml validation enabled too, which means that order >> of the nodes in the xml is also significant. Also, I'm not sure what you >> mean by saying that we don't support xmls - when debugging an issue, we ask >> for the raw SOAP xmls all the time, not the code in a particular >> programming language. >> >> Also, could you tell me why you don't find the .NET library and the >> vb.net code useful? You could >> >> 1. Download the library. >> 2. Modify one of the examples that does what you need to perform in >> vb.net. >> 3. Run the code example. >> 4. Capture the SOAP xmls - instructions are at >> http://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-dotnet/wiki/HowToCaptureSoapMessages >> >> 5. Compare the output xml and the handcoded xml you are sending to the >> API servers. >> >> I understand this is not a very straightforward approach, but it is not >> that difficult in practice. E.g. here's the SOAP xml I captured by >> modifying the UpdateAdGroup.vb code example: >> >> >> -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
