Hi Oliver, Yes, we still recommend this approach to be safe. If and when we make a change to this, we'll do it at a version boundary (i.e. a future release) and make it clear in the release notes.
- Kevin Winter AdWords API Team On Thursday, May 31, 2012 6:36:53 AM UTC-4, Oliver wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > Is the statuses inconsistency between the webservices and reports still an > issue? Is your advice of always specifying the statuses still valid? > > Oliver > > On Thursday, February 16, 2012 4:13:13 PM UTC, Kevin Winter wrote: >> >> Hi Andrezza, >> Unfortunately, the statuses returned by the webservices and reports are >> inconsistent. In v13, there was a lot of special logic about which >> statuses were returned when. In the later services (such as v201109) this >> legacy behavior continued. However, the reports did not maintain this >> behavior. Reports, by default, should return all objects no matter their >> status. For example, the AdGroupAdService will not return disabled ads, >> but the Ad Performance report will. We're working with the core >> engineering team to make this more consistent (preferably by removing this >> special logic). In the meantime, we strongly recommend specifying the >> statuses you would like to receive back in the Predicates of your Selector. >> This guarantees that no matter the behavior, you are receiving the data >> you are expecting, without relying on legacy or undocumented behavior. >> >> - Kevin Winter >> AdWords API Team >> > -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 [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
