Kevin, We may very well decide to use the API for final production code. However, to fully understand the underlying communication process and options, we'd like to start with some raw SOAP calls and work our way up.
This shouldn't be too difficult as SOAP is a fairly well defined protocol, and Google has very thorough online documentation of every object, call, and option. Our main issue is that we don't understand some of the "notation" that Google uses to describe SOAP options. (While SOAP follows standards, the documentation has no standard.) For example, with this setting, the documentation is here: https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/latest/CampaignService.KeywordMatchSetting Apparently it is a "setting" of "Campaign", which is documented here: https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/latest/CampaignService.Campaign The documentation says that "Setting" is a "list", but doesn't really explain how to use that in the XML Is there an actual example of XML (SOAP) that uses this setting? As it stands, the example, which is SOAP, is broken. Thank You On Jan 4, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Kevin Winter (AdWords API Team) <adwordsapiadvisor+ke...@google.com> wrote: > Thanks for pointing this out, I'll get the docs updated. > > We strongly encourage you to use a client library to make SOAP calls, very > few developers take this route. Making raw requests like this will result in > numerous headaches (such as this) trying to craft the appropriate SOAP. We > have plenty of code examples showing how to do numerous actions with the API. > For example, adding campaigns in java: > https://code.google.com/p/google-api-ads-java/source/browse/examples/adwords_axis/src/main/java/adwords/axis/v201209/basicoperations/AddCampaigns.java > > - Kevin Winter > AdWords API Team > > On Thursday, January 3, 2013 1:01:37 AM UTC-5, Noah wrote: > Still stuck on this. > > 1) Has anyone resolved how that keyword_match_settings became mandatory? > Should the documentation examples be updated? > > 2) I can't figure out, from the online SOAP documentation, the correct way to > set this variable. Can someone provide me with an example SOAP request that > includes this parameter? > > Thanks > > > On Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:34:42 PM UTC-8, Noah wrote: > Hello, > > I'm following, step-by-step, the documentation at: > https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/ > > 1) Get an auth token using CURL. Works fine > > 2) Send manual SOAP request with supplied auth, client id, etc. FAILS > > I get an error back from google that says (from the SOAP response): > > MUST_SPECIFY_KEYWORD_MATCH_SETTINGS > > However, the example in the docs doesn't say anything about keyword match > settings. My guess is that Google updated some rules for creating campaigns, > but failed to update the documentation. > > Suggestions? > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";> > <soap:Header> > <ResponseHeader > xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201209";> > <requestId>0004d21d2c0c80800a42b6a8000037e3</requestId> > <serviceName>CampaignService</serviceName> > <methodName>mutate</methodName> > <operations>0</operations> > <responseTime>698</responseTime> > <units>0</units> > </ResponseHeader> > </soap:Header> > <soap:Body> > <soap:Fault> > <faultcode>soap:Server</faultcode> > <faultstring>[CampaignError.MUST_SPECIFY_KEYWORD_MATCH_SETTINGS @ > operations[0].operand.settings]</faultstring> > <detail> > <ApiExceptionFault > xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201209";> > <message>[CampaignError.MUST_SPECIFY_KEYWORD_MATCH_SETTINGS @ > operations[0].operand.settings]</message> > > <ApplicationException.Type>ApiException</ApplicationException.Type> > <errors xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:type="CampaignError"> > <fieldPath>operations[0].operand.settings</fieldPath> > <trigger /> > > <errorString>CampaignError.MUST_SPECIFY_KEYWORD_MATCH_SETTINGS</errorString> > <ApiError.Type>CampaignError</ApiError.Type> > <reason>MUST_SPECIFY_KEYWORD_MATCH_SETTINGS</reason> > </errors> > </ApiExceptionFault> > </detail> > </soap:Fault> > </soap:Body> > </soap:Envelope> > > -- > -- > =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ > 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 > > > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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. 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