Experiments: patch

Request

HTTP request

PATCH https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/management/accounts/accountId/webproperties/webPropertyId/profiles/profileId/experiments/experimentId

Parameters

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes (read more about authentication and authorization).

Request body

In the request body, supply the relevant portions of a management.experiment resource, according to the rules of patch semantics, with the following properties:

Response

If successful, this method returns a management.experiment resource in the response body.

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

/*
 * Note: This code assumes you have an authorized Analytics service object.
 * See the Experiments Developer Guide for details.
 */

// This example patches an existing experiment with new variations.
Variations variationA = new Variations();
variationA.setName("Home A");
variationA.setUrl("homeA.html");
Variations variationB = new Variations();
variationB.setName("Home B");
variationB.setUrl("homeB.html");
List<Variations> variations = Arrays.asList(variationA, variationB);

try {
  // First get an existing Experiment.
  Experiment body = analytics.management().experiments().get("123456",
      "UA-123456-1", "7654321", "122333444455555").execute();

  // Set the new variations.
  body.setVariations(variations);

  // Call Patch with the updated experiment.
  analytics.management().experiments().patch("123456", "UA-123456-1",
      "7654321", "12233344455555", body).execute();
} catch (GoogleJsonResponseException e) {
  System.err.println("There was a service error: "
      + e.getDetails().getCode() + " : "
      + e.getDetails().getMessage());
}

/**
 * Note: This code assumes you have an authorized Analytics service object.
 * See the Experiments Developer Guide for details.
 */

/**
 * This request patches an existing experiment.
 */

// Construct the first variation.
$variationA = new Google_Service_Analytics_ExperimentVariations();
$variationA->setName('VariationA');
$variationA->setUrl('index.html');

// Construct the second variation.
$variationB = new Google_Service_Analytics_ExperimentVariations();
$variationB->setName('VariationB');
$variationB->setUrl('indexB.html');

try {
  // Get an existing Experiment.
  $experiment = $analytics->management_experiments->get('123456',
      'UA-123456-1', '7654321', '122333444455555');

  // Set the new variations.
  $experiment->setVariations(array($variationA, $variationB));

  // Call the patch method with the updated experiment.
  $analytics->management_experiments->patch('123456', 'UA-123456-1',
      '7654321', '122333444455555', $experiment);
} catch (apiServiceException $e) {
  print 'There was an Analytics API service error '
      . $e->getCode() . ':' . $e->getMessage();

} catch (apiException $e) {
  print 'There was a general API error '
      . $e->getCode() . ':' . $e->getMessage();
}

# Note: This code assumes you have an authorized Analytics service object.
# See the Experiments Developer Guide for details.

# This request patches an existing experiment with a new name,
# and new variations.
try:
  analytics.management().experiments().patch(
      accountId='123456',
      webPropertyId='UA-123456-1',
      profileId='7654321',
      experimentId='ABCDEFG123456abcdefg',
      body={
          'name': 'Landing Page Test April',
          'variations': [
              {
                  'name': 'First Variation',
                  'url': 'index.html'
              },
              {
                  'name': 'Proposed Change',
                  'url': 'indexB.html'
              }
          ]
      }
  ).execute()

except TypeError, error:
  # Handle errors in constructing a query.
  print 'There was an error in constructing your query : %s' % error

except HttpError, error:
  # Handle API errors.
  print ('There was an API error : %s : %s' %
         (error.resp.status, error.resp.reason))

/*
 * Note: This code assumes you have an authorized Analytics client object.
 * See the Experiments Developer Guide for details.
 */

/*
 * This request patches an existing experiment.
 */
function patchExperiment() {
  var request = gapi.client.analytics.management.experiments.patch(
    {
      'accountId': '123456',
      'webPropertyId': 'UA-123456-1',
      'profileId': '7654321',
      'experimentId': '122333444455555',
      'resource': {
        'name': 'Landing Page Test',
        'status': 'DRAFT',
        'variations': [
          {
            'name': 'VariationA',
            'url': 'index.html'
          },
          {
            'name': 'VariationB',
            'url': 'indexB.html'
          }
        ]
      }
    });
  request.execute(function (response) { // Handle the response. });
}