Great. Thank you. However, these errors are coming back as XML errors before the query is sent. It doesn't seem to like (,)@% in the text of a keyword phrase.
On Feb 17, 5:03 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> wrote: > Hello Phil, > > Are you saying that the AdWords SOAP service returns a fault back > complaining that your ad or keyword has illegal characters in it? The > policies in place for checking ads submitted via the API are the same > as those for ads submitted using the AdWords web interface. There are > a couple of AdWords help center articles about characters that can and > cannot appear in various AdWords objects: > > http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6313 > http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=57787 > > Cheers, > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > On Feb 17, 11:37 am, Phil <5000...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Jeff. > > The parse int thingy was the only error I was digging up. It turns out > > to have been a red herring. > > > I did some further investigation and it appeared that > > A. I don't need to encode for XML it is handled by the .net xml > > object. > > B. The problem wasn't XML encoding it was other special characters and > > length that was being thrown as XML errors. > > > I found an error (turning on logging) telling be that ( and ) and , > > were illegal - so I got rid of them. Then I found that @ was illegal. > > Also I found that some of the errors are to do with the length of > > criterion. I think I have found most of the illegal things now. I > > couldn't find an illegal character list and haven't dug around for a > > style sheet. > > > Cheers > > Phil > > On Feb 17, 4:29 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > > wrote: > > > > Hello Phil, > > > > Yes, the error you describe is coming from Microsoft's XML > > > serialization library code. You say that it happens when serializing > > > integers--what makes you think that? Any how is it that you're passing > > > in anything other than the characters 0-9 for an integer value? > > > > I'd think that if you break into the debugger when this exception is > > > through there should be some way to get more information about the > > > error from inspecting the exception's properties--Visual Studio's > > > debugger is usually pretty good about that. Unfortunately, if this > > > error is occurring during XML serialization as you suggest, it's > > > unlikely that you would be able to turn on logging to see the XML > > > being generated, as it's the XML generation itself that is failing. > > > > Cheers, > > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > > On Feb 16, 12:42 pm, Phil <5000...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > PS, I have just noticed..... > > > > I am getting this problem with '(' not only special characters. > > > > > On Feb 16, 5:31 pm, Phil <5000...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I am not sure how to approach this problem. I am currently working in > > > > > the sandbox. > > > > > I am using the .net adwords API library (v12 or v13 - at the time of > > > > > writing I am not sure). I am XML encoding all values before I send > > > > > them to a service. However I am still getting 'There is an error in > > > > > XML document(16,32)' errors. > > > > > I always get this error on some kind of special character (though not > > > > > always one I would expect to need to encode) but it doesn't seem to > > > > > happen consistently. > > > > > > It always seems to happen when I am checking critera and doesn't > > > > > happen in my code (it is in the serialisation in the criterion service > > > > > call). It appears to happen when the serialisation is trying to parse > > > > > an int. > > > > > > Has anyone else had this kind of error? > > > > > Should I be XML encoding things or relying on the API library to do > > > > > that for me? > > > > > How would I 'see' the XML that is being sent? > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > Phil. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
