Client Library Updates
July 20th, 2011 | Published in Google Adwords API
We often make changes to the AdWords API client libraries that do not merit a full blog post. We’d like to start publishing a summary blog post every other week to highlight changes that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Python
Perl
Ruby
PHP
You can download updated versions of the AdWords API client libraries from their respective sites, or see a list of all the client libraries using this link.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss these changes, please post on the forum.
Kevin Winter, AdWords API Team
Python
- Added support for OAuth as an authentication mechanism. This will allow developers to access the API without requiring a username and password. See the new code example for more information on how to integrate OAuth with your application.
- Additionally, a number of issues were fixed: 115, 142, 144, and 145.
Perl
- Fixed some bugs that prevented usage of multiple Client objects.
- Full XPath support was added; XPath queries can now be done through the entire tree of results.
- OAuth support was also added.
Ruby
- Improved support for UTF reports in download extensions.
- New logger interface.
- Updates have been made to the code examples.
PHP
- Updated OAuth support to allow for alternative OAuth libraries, including the bundled Andy Smith library.
- The logging functionality has been updated to support filtering for levels. The default logging behavior has been changed to only log SOAP XML if an error occurs.
- New methods were added to AdWordsUser for additional logging configuration. The AdWords Get*Service() methods were replaced with a single GetService() method. Backwards compatibility was maintained using __call(). All examples and tests were updated to use the new method.
- Additionally, 2 issues were fixed: 55 and 59.
You can download updated versions of the AdWords API client libraries from their respective sites, or see a list of all the client libraries using this link.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss these changes, please post on the forum.