Google Adwords SOAP Request

Question

I am using the Java Adwords API. Is there a way that I can see what the SOAP request looks like that is being sent when I create an AdGroup (mutate)?

Answer 1

You can view the SOAP XML by enabling logging. The default soapXmlLogger is just configured to log errors, but you can change it from WARN to INFO if you want to see everything; for example:

log4j.category.com.google.api.ads.adwords.lib.client.AdWordsServiceClient.soapXmlLogger=INFO, SOAP_LOG, CONSOLE

Answer 2

with your user object - call -

$user->LogAll();

by default this will write to a file called soap_xml.log - you might need to create it or adjust the permissions to make sure it is writable by apache - but you should be able to see all the soap requests there.

Answer 3

Using log4j.xml, the following appender will remove soap request/response logs

<logger name="com.google.api.ads.adwords.lib.client.AdWordsServiceClient.soapXmlLogger"  additivity="false">
    <level value="error"/>
    <appender-ref ref="<your-appender>"/>
</logger>