How do I properly set AdType when calling GetAdsByAdGroupId?

Question

Hi! I'm currently trying to call GetAdsByAdGroupId as follows:

[...]

def get_ads_by_ad_group_id(customer_id: str, account_id: str, ad_group_id: str) -> Any:
    """See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/advertising/campaign-management-service/getadsbyadgroupid?view=bingads-13"""
    client = ServiceClient(
        service="CampaignManagementService",
        version=13,
        authorization_data=AuthorizationDataHelper(customer_id=customer_id, account_id=account_id)
    )
    return client.GetAdsByAdGroupId(
    	AdGroupId=ad_group_id,
    	AdTypes=["Text"],
    	ReturnAdditionalFields=[]
    )

ads = get_ads_by_ad_group_id(CUSTOMER_ID, CUSTOMER_ACCOUNT_ID, 789)

[...]

However, I bump into this exception:

Server raised fault: 'The formatter threw an exception while trying to deserialize the message: There was an error while trying to deserialize parameter https://bingads.microsoft.com/CampaignManagement/v13:AdTypes. The InnerException message was 'Error in line 1 position 2800. Expecting state 'Element'.. Encountered 'Text'  with name '', namespace ''.'.  Please see InnerException for more details.'

Given

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/advertising/campaign-management-service/getadsbyadgroupid?view=bingads-13, and
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/advertising/campaign-management-service/adtype?view=bingads-13

I expect an AdType array to be provided as, e.g., ["Text"]. However, this is not the case.

How do I properly set an AdType array in this particular call?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You should set AdTypes as follows:

    [..]
    client = ServiceClient(
        service="CampaignManagementService",
        version=13,
        authorization_data=AuthorizationDataHelper(customer_id=customer_id, account_id=account_id)
    )

	ad_types = client.factory.create("ArrayOfAdType")
    ad_types.AdType = [
        "Text",
        "Image",
        "Product",
        "AppInstall",
        "ExpandedText",
        "DynamicSearch",
        "ResponsiveAd",
        "ResponsiveSearch",
        "Hotel"
    ]

    return client.GetAdsByAdGroupId(
    	AdGroupId=ad_group_id,
    	AdTypes=ad_types,
    	ReturnAdditionalFields=[]
    )

That should do the trick!