Custom gRPC interceptors

The .NET client library internally uses gRPC interceptors for logging purposes, but it also lets you add your own custom gRPC interceptors. This feature can be used for logging metrics to a custom log aggregator or to transform Google Ads API requests.

To add a custom gRPC interceptor, implement a class extending the Grpc.Core.Interceptors.Interceptor class and attach it to your GoogleAdsClient with the AddInterceptor method.

Note that intercepting streaming and non-streaming gRPC requests require overriding two different methods of the Interceptor class: AsyncUnaryCall and AsyncServerStreamingCall, respectively.

The Google.Ads.Gax.Interceptors namespace provides utility classes that can be used in custom interceptors to facilitate exception handling.

The following code example implements both a streaming and a non-streaming gRPC call interceptor:

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using CommandLine;
using Google.Api.Gax;
using Google.Ads.Gax.Examples;
using Google.Ads.Gax.Interceptors;
using Google.Ads.GoogleAds.Lib;
using Google.Ads.GoogleAds.V18.Errors;
using Google.Ads.GoogleAds.V18.Services;
using Grpc.Core;
using Grpc.Core.Interceptors;
using System;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Google.Ads.GoogleAds.Examples.V18
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This code example shows how to add a custom gRPC interceptor.
    /// </summary>
    public class AddCustomGrpcInterceptor : ExampleBase
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Command line options for running the <see cref="AddCustomGrpcInterceptor"/> example.
        /// </summary>
        public class Options : OptionsBase
        {
            /// <summary>
            /// The Google Ads customer ID for which the call is made.
            /// </summary>
            [Option("customerId", Required = true, HelpText =
                "The Google Ads customer ID for which the call is made.")]
            public long CustomerId { get; set; }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Main method, to run this code example as a standalone application.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="args">The command line arguments.</param>
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Options options = ExampleUtilities.ParseCommandLine<Options>(args);

            AddCustomGrpcInterceptor codeExample = new AddCustomGrpcInterceptor();
            Console.WriteLine(codeExample.Description);
            GoogleAdsClient client = new GoogleAdsClient();
            // Add a custom interceptor.
            client.AddInterceptor(new CustomInterceptor());
            codeExample.Run(client,
                options.CustomerId);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a description about the code example.
        /// </summary>
        public override string Description =>
            "This code example shows how to add a custom gRPC interceptor.";

        /// <summary>
        /// Runs the code example.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="client">The Google Ads client.</param>
        /// <param name="customerId">The Google Ads customer ID for which the call is made.</param>
        public void Run(GoogleAdsClient client, long customerId)
        {
            // Get the GoogleAdsService.
            GoogleAdsServiceClient googleAdsService = client.GetService(
                Services.V18.GoogleAdsService);

            // Create a query that will retrieve all campaigns, just to demonstrate usage of the
            // custom interceptor.
            string query = @"SELECT
                            campaign.id,
                        FROM campaign
                        ORDER BY campaign.id";

            try
            {
                // Issue a streaming search request; we don't need to do anything with the response
                // here, we just want to demonstrate usage of the interceptor.
                googleAdsService.SearchStream(customerId.ToString(), query,
                    delegate (SearchGoogleAdsStreamResponse resp){}
                );
            }
            catch (GoogleAdsException e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Failure:");
                Console.WriteLine($"Message: {e.Message}");
                Console.WriteLine($"Failure: {e.Failure}");
                Console.WriteLine($"Request ID: {e.RequestId}");
                throw;
            }
            try
            {
                // Issue a non-streaming call.
                PagedEnumerable<SearchGoogleAdsResponse, GoogleAdsRow> response =
                    googleAdsService.Search(customerId.ToString(), query);
                foreach (GoogleAdsRow googleAdsRow in response)
                {
                    // The response for Search is lazy, meaning that the actual gRPC call will be
                    // sent only when the response is actually accessed; to demonstrate usage of
                    // the interceptor, then, we need to ensure the call is sent by looping
                    // through the response results.
                    Console.WriteLine("Campaign with ID {0} was found.",
                        googleAdsRow.Campaign.Id, googleAdsRow.Campaign.Name);
                }
            }
            catch (GoogleAdsException e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Failure:");
                Console.WriteLine($"Message: {e.Message}");
                Console.WriteLine($"Failure: {e.Failure}");
                Console.WriteLine($"Request ID: {e.RequestId}");
                throw;
            }
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// A custom interceptor for both streaming and non-streaming gRPC calls.
    /// </summary>
    internal class CustomInterceptor : Interceptor
    {

        public override AsyncUnaryCall<TResponse> AsyncUnaryCall<TRequest, TResponse>(
            TRequest request, ClientInterceptorContext<TRequest, TResponse> context,
            AsyncUnaryCallContinuation<TRequest, TResponse> continuationCallback)
        {
            AsyncUnaryCall<TResponse> call = continuationCallback(request, context);

            Action<Task<TResponse>> callback = delegate (Task<TResponse> oldTask)
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"Intercepted a non-streaming call to {context.Method.Name}");
            };

            return UnaryRpcInterceptor.Intercept(call, callback);
        }

        public override AsyncServerStreamingCall<TResponse> AsyncServerStreamingCall<TRequest, TResponse>(
            TRequest request, ClientInterceptorContext<TRequest, TResponse> context,
            AsyncServerStreamingCallContinuation<TRequest, TResponse> continuation)
        {
            AsyncServerStreamingCall<TResponse> call = continuation(request, context);
            StreamingRpcInterceptor<TResponse> responseStream = null;

            responseStream = new StreamingRpcInterceptor<TResponse>(call.ResponseStream,
                delegate (TResponse response, AggregateException rpcException)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine($"Intercepted a streaming call to {context.Method.Name}");
                });

            return new AsyncServerStreamingCall<TResponse>(
                responseStream,
                call.ResponseHeadersAsync,
                call.GetStatus,
                call.GetTrailers,
                call.Dispose
            );
        }
    }
}

AddCustomGrpcInterceptor.cs