Hi Ben,
I’m using the python library and was very disappointed to find out that the
results from the API queries are delivered as objects which are non-iterable,
making the use of data dictionaries a lot more difficult and a lot less elegant.
Other Google APIs present results as dictionaries which can be inspected for
content (fields and values) according to the same data dictionary that was used
for the request. That makes configuring API extractions easy to build, maintain
and improve, using code such as:
for element in my_api_dict:
if element[“id”] in returned_values:
results.append(returned_values[element[“id”]]
On the other hand, the new Google Ads API (which should supposedly be better
than previous ones?) demands that the result set elements are named explicitly,
like:
results = [returned_values.table1.column1,
returned_values.table1.column2,
returned_values.table1.column3, …
]
I feel very dirty to admit I came up with a fugly and shameful solution which
is converting the results to string and then making some modifications to turn
it into a yaml string and parse it, so I could transform it into a dictionary.
Ugly solutions make me extremely uncomfortable and frustrated, and I don’t
think I should have to do things like this in 2020, *especially* dealing with
an API developed by the almighty Google.
I can live with the ugly solution if you can live with my deep disappointment
in your company development teams.
Cheers,
Deny
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: GoogleAdsRow object not iterable?
Hi Deny,
Thanks for the post, and sorry that you're having an issue here.
Can you share a little more detail about the problem you're having? I might be
able to help you get around the issue, and if not can help post a feature
request so that we can fix it in the future.
It seems like you might be having an issue with one of the client libraries.
Can you let me know which language you're using?
Thanks!
Ben Karl, Google Ads API Team
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