Re: BiddingErrors.INVALID_BID occurring sporadically since 25.07.2015

Hello,

although up to now everything worked fine, we now receive the same API error (BiddingErrors.INVALID_BID) but only for one specific google shopping unit.
In our eyes it should be definitely the correct product UNIT type and the CPC in this case is set to 2,07€. Nevertheless we get the following error message:

<errorList><errors xsi:type="BiddingErrors"><fieldPath>operations[1].operand.biddingStrategyConfiguration.bids</fieldPath>
<trigger>CpcBid{bid=0.000000, contentBid=null, cpcBidSource=null}</trigger>
<errorString>BiddingErrors.INVALID_BID</errorString><ApiError.Type>BiddingErrors</ApiError.Type><reason>INVALID_BID</reason></errors></errorList>

It would be very kind if you or someone else in the API team can help us find our what is the problem in this case.
Our BatchJob ID is 315190981.

Many thanks in advance

Regards,
Stefan

On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 5:12:22 PM UTC, Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team) wrote:

Hello,

This change was intentional in v201506 of the API. Bids on subdivisions in product partitions are meaningless, and even setting them in the past had no effect on actual bidding. This is simply new validation that prevents you from even setting such bids.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 11:35:58 AM UTC-4, Józef Janik wrote:

I'm only seeing this error on ADD operations.  SET operations seem to be fine...

On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 10:49:33 AM UTC-4, Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team) wrote:

Hello,

I've filed a bug with the engineering team, and I will keep this post updated as I find out more information. Thanks for the reports and the detailed information, everyone.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 9:23:27 AM UTC-4, peter.r...@smarter-ecommerce.com wrote:

Hi 

We experience sporadically occurring BiddingErrors.INVALID_BID errors when we send product partitions. First sight: 2015-07-25T02:31:05.650+02:00

Seen 23 times since then. Seen across multiple accounts.

It looks like, that sometimes the API does not accept a bid for partitions (see examples below). The error is not reproducible. It's not related to threading problems. We've got a simple single-threaded unit test that sporadically fails with this error (~1 out of 10-15 runs).

Adwords Api version is v201506. Java API version is 2.2.0.

Thanks! 

Peter

2015-07-27 12:41:07,521 1.1.1.RELEASE  WARN task-scheduler-16 AdWordsServiceClient.soapXmlLogger - SOAP Request:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

    <soapenv:Header>

        <ns1:RequestHeader xmlns:ns1="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201506" soapenv:mustUnderstand="0">

            <ns1:validateOnly>false</ns1:validateOnly>

            <ns1:partialFailure>false</ns1:partialFailure>

            ....

        </ns1:RequestHeader>

    </soapenv:Header>

    <soapenv:Body>

        <mutate xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201506">

            <operations>

                <operator>ADD</operator>

                <operand xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201506" xsi:type="ns2:BiddableAdGroupCriterion">

                    <adGroupId>XXXXXXXXX</adGroupId>

                    <criterion xsi:type="ns2:ProductPartition">

                        <id>-2</id>

                        <partitionType>SUBDIVISION</partitionType>

                        <parentCriterionId>XXXXXXXX</parentCriterionId>

                        <caseValue xsi:type="ns2:ProductBrand">

                            <value>uco</value>

                        </caseValue>

                    </criterion>

                    <biddingStrategyConfiguration>

                        <bids xsi:type="ns2:CpcBid">

                            <bid>

                                <microAmount>800000</microAmount>

                            </bid>

                        </bids>

                    </biddingStrategyConfiguration>

                </operand>

            </operations>

....

        <ResponseHeader xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201506">

            <requestId>00051bd8fdb71fa00ac4006bca04b828</requestId>

            <serviceName>AdGroupCriterionService</serviceName>

            <methodName>mutate</methodName>

            <operations>0</operations>

            <responseTime>248</responseTime>

        </ResponseHeader>

[BiddingErrors.INVALID_BID @ operations[0].operand.biddingStrategyConfiguration.bids; trigger:'CpcBid{bid=0.800000, contentBid=null, cpcBidSource=null}', ......

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