When creating an ad, api returns null- Facebook Developers

Created By

Hai Huang

08/26/2012 3:14am

Subscribers (42)

BugsWhen creating an ad, api returns null

Status: Fixed
Priority: High
Updated: August 31, 2012 at 2:03am

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Latest response from Facebook

Jonathan Dean

This should now be resolved. Thanks for your patience.

Status changed to Fixed

Stephen Doyle

We have a fix which should resolve this issue and it will be pushed in our next daily push.

Status changed to Fix Ready

Stephen Doyle

Apologies for the delay on this, we are still investigating this.
There should be a further update later today

Priority changed to High

Jonathan Dean

Apologies for the delay on this, we are still investigating this.

Jonathan Dean

Can everyone please let us know if you are seeing this on graph.facebook.com or graph.beta.facebook.com?

Jonathan Dean

Is this only affecting ad/campaign creation/updating or are you seeing errors elsewhere?

Jonathan Dean

Thanks for the report. We are looking into this.

Status changed to Assigned

It is sporadic. Sometimes it is normal to create ad, but most of time it returns null(See actual result below). Even it happens to ad update. After creating an ad, api also returns null when do first ad update.

Steps to Reproduce:

1.Create post like ad with batch call
[{"method":"POST","relative_url":"act_46848300\/adgroups","body":"campaign_id=6004746534441&name=AFPPageLike&bid_type=1&max_bid=1&targeting=%7B%22countries%22%3A%5B%22US%22%5D%2C%22age_min%22%3A18%2C%22age_max%22%3A65%2C%22broad_age%22%3A1%7D&creative=%7B%22action_spec%22%3A%7B%22action.type%22%3A%22like%22%2C%22page%22%3A162496510434939%7D%2C%22type%22%3A25%7D"}]

2.Sometimes it's ok, but most time failed.

3.Update ad name above, if creating successfully.
[{"method":"POST","relative_url":6005112136841,"body":"name=6005112136841"}]

4.Return the same result if failed.

Expected Behavior:

new ad id

Actual Behavior:

[{"code":397,"headers":[{"name":"Connection","value":"close"},{"name":"Content-Type","value":"text\/html; charset=utf-8"}],"body":null}]

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