The Google Ads API provides a few different ways for mutating resources, depending on
your use case. Each resource has a corresponding service that lets you
specify mutate operations for that specific resource type. For example, the
Campaign resource has a corresponding
CampaignService.MutateCampaigns
endpoint for mutating campaigns.
Another option is the
GoogleAdsService.Mutate endpoint,
which essentially wraps a series of individual mutate calls on the resource
services and provides the following benefits:
- Grouped actions across different resource services. Normal calls can only execute operations against a single resource service.
- Temporary resource names. Combine operations to create an entity and its child entities in a single request.
With these two properties, you can use
GoogleAdsService.Mutate to, for
example, create an entire campaign structure only if every step along the way
succeeds.