Timeout

All Google Ads API services have default settings including timeouts that are used by the transport. Any service of a given Google Ads API version has a dedicated JSON file with these default settings defined at service and method levels. For example, you can find the files related to the latest Google Ads API version here.

The default settings are adequate for most use cases, but there may be times when you need to override them. The client library for PHP supports overriding timeout settings for both server streaming and unary calls.

You can set the timeout to 2 hours or more, but the API may still time out extremely long-running requests and return a DEADLINE_EXCEEDED error.

Overriding timeouts for a server streaming call

The only Google Ads API service method that uses this type of call is GoogleAdsService.SearchStream. To override the default timeout, you need to add an extra parameter when calling the method:

private static function makeServerStreamingCall(
    GoogleAdsClient $googleAdsClient,
    int $customerId
) {
    $googleAdsServiceClient = $googleAdsClient->getGoogleAdsServiceClient();
    // Creates a query that retrieves all campaign IDs.
    $query = 'SELECT campaign.id FROM campaign';

    $output = '';
    try {
        // Issues a search stream request by setting a custom client timeout.
        /** @var GoogleAdsServerStreamDecorator $stream */
        $stream = $googleAdsServiceClient->searchStream(
            SearchGoogleAdsStreamRequest::build($customerId, $query),
            [
                // Any server streaming call has a default timeout setting. For this
                // particular call, the default setting can be found in the following file:
                // https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-php/blob/master/src/Google/Ads/GoogleAds/V18/Services/resources/google_ads_service_client_config.json.
                //
                // When making a server streaming call, an optional argument is provided and can
                // be used to override the default timeout setting with a given value.
                'timeoutMillis' => self::CLIENT_TIMEOUT_MILLIS
            ]
        );
        // Iterates over all rows in all messages and collects the campaign IDs.
        foreach ($stream->iterateAllElements() as $googleAdsRow) {
            /** @var GoogleAdsRow $googleAdsRow */
            $output .= ' ' . $googleAdsRow->getCampaign()->getId();
        }
        print 'The server streaming call completed before the timeout.' . PHP_EOL;
    } catch (ApiException $exception) {
        if ($exception->getStatus() === ApiStatus::DEADLINE_EXCEEDED) {
            print 'The server streaming call did not complete before the timeout.' . PHP_EOL;
        } else {
            // Bubbles up if the exception is not about timeout.
            throw $exception;
        }
    } finally {
        print 'All campaign IDs retrieved:' . ($output ?: ' None') . PHP_EOL;
    }
}
SetCustomClientTimeouts.php

Overriding timeouts for a unary call

Most of the Google Ads API service methods use unary calls; typical examples are GoogleAdsService.Search and GoogleAdsService.Mutate. To override the default timeout, you need to add an extra parameter when calling the method:

private static function makeUnaryCall(GoogleAdsClient $googleAdsClient, int $customerId)
{
    $googleAdsServiceClient = $googleAdsClient->getGoogleAdsServiceClient();
    // Creates a query that retrieves all campaign IDs.
    $query = 'SELECT campaign.id FROM campaign';

    $output = '';
    try {
        // Issues a search request by setting a custom client timeout.
        $response = $googleAdsServiceClient->search(
            SearchGoogleAdsRequest::build($customerId, $query),
            [
                // Any unary call is retryable and has default retry settings.
                // Complete information about these settings can be found here:
                // https://googleapis.github.io/gax-php/master/Google/ApiCore/RetrySettings.html.
                // For this particular call, the default retry settings can be found in the
                // following file:
                // https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-php/blob/master/src/Google/Ads/GoogleAds/V18/Services/resources/google_ads_service_client_config.json.
                //
                // When making an unary call, an optional argument is provided and can be
                // used to override the default retry settings with given values.
                'retrySettings' => [
                    // Sets the maximum accumulative timeout of the call, it includes all tries.
                    'totalTimeoutMillis' => self::CLIENT_TIMEOUT_MILLIS,
                    // Sets the timeout that is used for the first try to one tenth of the
                    // maximum accumulative timeout of the call.
                    // Note: This overrides the default value and can lead to
                    // RequestError.RPC_DEADLINE_TOO_SHORT errors when too small. We recommend
                    // to do it only if necessary.
                    'initialRpcTimeoutMillis' => self::CLIENT_TIMEOUT_MILLIS / 10,
                    // Sets the maximum timeout that can be used for any given try to one fifth
                    // of the maximum accumulative timeout of the call (two times greater than
                    // the timeout that is used for the first try).
                    'maxRpcTimeoutMillis' => self::CLIENT_TIMEOUT_MILLIS / 5
                ]
            ]
        );
        // Iterates over all rows in all messages and collects the campaign IDs.
        foreach ($response->iterateAllElements() as $googleAdsRow) {
            /** @var GoogleAdsRow $googleAdsRow */
            $output .= ' ' . $googleAdsRow->getCampaign()->getId();
        }
        print 'The unary call completed before the timeout.' . PHP_EOL;
    } catch (ApiException $exception) {
        if ($exception->getStatus() === ApiStatus::DEADLINE_EXCEEDED) {
            print 'The unary call did not complete before the timeout.' . PHP_EOL;
        } else {
            // Bubbles up if the exception is not about timeout.
            throw $exception;
        }
    } finally {
        print 'All campaign IDs retrieved:' . ($output ?: ' None') . PHP_EOL;
    }
}
SetCustomClientTimeouts.php