Getting com.facebook.ads.sdk.APIException$MalformedResponseException while fetching ad insights

[tariq-hevo]

Which SDK version are you using?

10.0.0

What's the issue?

While trying to fetch ad insights application fails with following exception : com.facebook.ads.sdk.APIException$MalformedResponseException: Invalid response string:

Steps/Sample code to reproduce the issue

APIRequestGetInsightsAsync getInsightsAsync = adAccount.getInsightsAsync()
                    .setLevel(adLevel) // Ad level by default
                    .setFields(fields) // selected fields or all
                    .setActionReportTime(actionReportTime) // selected in source
                    .setBreakdowns(breakdownsList) // Empty when not required
                    .setTimeIncrement("1") // to fetch the records on a granular level of per-day
                    .setTimeRange(FacebookAdsUtils.getTimeRange(startDate, endDate));

            AdReportRun adReportRun = getInsightsAsync.execute();

Observed Results:

• What happened? This could be a description, log output, etc. While trying to fetch the result sdk code breaks inside parseResponse method (AdsInsights.java:357). Following is the exception that we see :

   at com.facebook.ads.sdk.AdsInsights.parseResponse(AdsInsights.java:457)
    at com.facebook.ads.sdk.AdReportRun$APIRequestGetInsights.parseResponse(AdReportRun.java:515)
    at com.facebook.ads.sdk.AdReportRun$APIRequestGetInsights.execute(AdReportRun.java:526)
    at com.facebook.ads.sdk.AdReportRun$APIRequestGetInsights.execute(AdReportRun.java:520)

We noticed that mInstantExperienceOutboundClicks is of type List<AdsActionStats>. But the json string somehow doesn't seem to adhere to the Type defined.

If we go down the trace further this is what we see :

Caused by: com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected a string but was 
  BEGIN_ARRAY at line 1 column 638 path $.instant_experience_outbound_clicks
  at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:226)
  at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:932)
  at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:897)
  at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:846)
  at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:817)
  at com.facebook.ads.sdk.AdsInsights.loadJSON(AdsInsights.java:337)
  at com.facebook.ads.sdk.AdsInsights.parseResponse(AdsInsights.java:394)
  ... 29 common frames omitted
  Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected a string but was BEGIN_ARRAY at line 1 column 638 path 
  $.instant_experience_outbound_clicks
  at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.nextString(JsonReader.java:826)
  at com.google.gson.internal.bind.TypeAdapters$16.read(TypeAdapters.java:402)
  at com.google.gson.internal.bind.TypeAdapters$16.read(TypeAdapters.java:390)
  at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory$1.read(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:131)
  at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:222)
  ... 35 common frames omitted

Expected Results:

• What did you expect to happen? Code should be able to parse all the fields coming as part of ad insights.

[galacticgumshoe]

This is also happening in v9.0.0. It appears to be a breaking change made to the API and is in the code for v11.0.0 but that jar is not published to Maven yet due to #347

[tariq-hevo]

I see. Thanks for the update @galacticgumshoe. I hope this doesn't get a lot of time to get resolved as we already have the code ready for v11.0.0.

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