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Release 0.19 is out

By Ilya Martynov
June 7th, 2006

Updated APIs:

  • (INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE) Missing validation rules for size targeting have been implemented. Now size targeting is available only for campaigns and line items.
  • (INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE) Missing validation rules for geography targeting have been implemented. Now geography targeting is available for campaigns, line items and creatives only.
  • (INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE) Missing validation rules for daypart targeting have been implemented. Now daypart targeting is available for campaigns, creatives and line items only.
  • Add back adapt_media_hex and adapt_click_hex fields to creative data type.
  • (INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE) An error is returned by CreativeService.add() or update() if a creative contains an invalid file marker.
  • (INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE) Starting from this version all versions of API will use same URL namespaces in WSDL to avoid breaking C++ and Java clients on upgrades.
  • (INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE) Missing validation rules for validated urls targeting have been implemented. Now vurl targeting is available for line items only.
  • (INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE) Missing validation rules for querystring targeting have been implemented. Now querystring targeting is available for line items only.
  • New field ‘allow_size_promotion’ in data type ‘line_item’.
  • APIs LineItemService.listBySeller(), LineItemService.listByBuyer(), LineItemService.getBySeller(), LineItemService.getByBuyer() were available to SMAs only. They are available to all entities now.

Bugfixes:

  • Campaign service didn’t check if pair of fields ‘description’ and ‘advertiser_entity_id’ in ‘campaign’ data type is unique.
  • In some cases it was not possible to set unlimited budget for pricing types with delivery caps.
  • InsertionOrderService.listBySeller returned too many IDs in some cases.
  • Users could reset creative content hash to NULL in some cases (the fix in previos release was incorrect).
  • CreativeService didn’t allow to set pop_expand_to_full_window to 0 for url creatives.
  • CreativeService didn’t allow to set click_url to NULL in some cases when it should be allowed.
  • (INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE) Data type ‘contact’ was exposing field ‘is_deleted’. It is removed from API now.
  • Creative service didn’t allow to upload creatives with repeating file markers.

Updated documentation:

  • The list of currently used SOAP toolkits and information how to build C++ examples have been added onto the example page.
  • New API lookup() in all services which support integration codes.

API documentation: http://api.yieldmanager.com/doc/.

WSDLs for the beta production version:

WSDLs for the stable production version:

Test version UI: http://api-test.yieldmanager.com/test-ui/.

WSDLs for the test version:

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