# googleads-rs

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Current Version 0.9.2 uses [Google Ads API v18](https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/release-notes)
A gRPC client library for Google Ads API, generated automatically from the API definition files.
I use it for my [mcc-gaql](https://github.com/mhuang74/mcc-gaql-rs) command line tool to run Google Ads Query Language queries across large number of MCC-linked accounts.
There may be more elegant ways to pull query results from GoogleAdsRow in a reflection-like manner. I couldn't figure it out. So I hand-crafted a `GoogleAdsRow.get(path: &str)` accessor method for fields which I need.
## Example
```
let client: GoogleAdsServiceClient<InterceptedService<Channel, GoogleAdsAPIAccess>> =
GoogleAdsServiceClient::with_interceptor(api_context.channel.clone(), api_context);
let result: Result<Response<Streaming<SearchGoogleAdsStreamResponse>>, Status> = client
.search_stream(SearchGoogleAdsStreamRequest {
customer_id: customer_id.clone(),
query,
summary_row_setting: 0,
})
.await;
match result {
Ok(response) => {
let mut stream = response.into_inner();
let mut columns: Vec<Vec<String>> = Vec::new();
let mut headers: Option<Vec<String>> = None;
while let Some(item) = stream.next().await {
match item {
Ok(stream_response) => {
let field_mask = stream_response.field_mask.unwrap();
if headers.is_none() {
headers = Some(field_mask.paths.clone());
}
for r in stream_response.results {
let row: GoogleAdsRow = r;
// go through all columns specified in query, pull out string value, and insert into columns
for i in 0..headers.as_ref().unwrap().len() {
let path = &headers.as_ref().unwrap()[i];
let string_val: String = row.get(path).trim_matches('"').to_string();
match columns.get_mut(i) {
Some(v) => {
v.push(string_val);
}
None => {
let v: Vec<String> = vec![string_val];
columns.insert(i, v);
}
}
}
}
}
Err(status) => {
bail!(
"GoogleAdsClient streaming error. Account: {customer_id}, Message: {}, Details: {}",
status.message(),
String::from_utf8_lossy(status.details()).into_owned()
);
}
}
}
}
}
```
## API Upgrade
Run `update.sh` to update the library for a new Google Ads API version:
* Download latest proto files for new Google Ads API version
* Replace references to old api version in build.rs, lib.rs, and README.md
```
./utils/update.sh v17
```
## Build process
* build.rs dynamically scans for available proto files, filters them, and feeds them to tonic to generate `protos.rs` (following strategy by [aquarhead](https://blog.aqd.is/2021/07/rust-protobuf))
* lib.rs includes `protos.rs`
* lib.rs also includes hand-crafted `get()` function
```
pub fn get(&self, field_name: &str) -> String {
match field_name {
"ad_group_criterion.criterion_id" => format!("{}", self.ad_group_criterion.as_ref().unwrap().criterion_id),
"ad_group_criterion.status" => format!("{}", self.ad_group_criterion.as_ref().unwrap().status()),
<snip>
}
}
```
## Credits
* Originally forked from [gkkachi's gapi-grpc-rs](https://github.com/gkkachi/gapi-grpc-rs), which used Python to generate `protos.rs`
* Dropped Python and migrated to custom build.rs per [aquarhead](https://blog.aqd.is/2021/07/rust-protobuf)