I have a process that maintains an Adwords campaign on behalf of a customer. The process will either purchase new keywords, or update keywords (destination URL only) nightly. The source of truth for what keywords to maintain is in a database on our end and a user/customer was the ability to insert new records into the table, thus triggering a purchase of a new keyword.
When a new keyword is purchased the record that exists in my database is updated with the criterion id, adgroup id, campaign id, url, keywords and more. I then use the URL later to determine if the keyword should be updated. In the previous version of the API (v13) I was able to just update the keyword quickly and catch/handle any errors. This happened very quickly; our small customer of 7000 keywords would run and usually update 80% of the keywords in a little over an hour. With the new API (v200909) it is extremely slow, the same 7000 keywords and 80% update is approaching the 6 hour mark and has only updated 1/3 of the total. This is a C# program and I am using the client library off of google code. I have been debuging it all day and am getting a lot of Database.CONCURRENT_MODIFICATION errors and am only running on one thread. While debugging I have noticed that the call to update/mutate a criterion is sometimes taking 30+ seconds to return, this was not the case in the last version. Which brings me to my main question about the Bulk Mutate Job. Is there a way to pass along extra identifiers to the job/operation so that when it returns and the job is complete I can loop over the results and grab my database ID's (primary key) from the criterion to update my system accordingly? If not, what are some alternatives to keeping two systems connected like this? If this is not currently supported can it be a feature request, sometime we want or need to pass along our identifiers so we know what to do with it when it returns. Thanks for the help, Kyle. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en.
