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The unique identifier for an entity in the Google Ads API is called a resource
name, and is represented as a string with a predictable format. If you know
the constituent components of a resource name, you can use this utility to
generate the final resource name.
PathLookupUtil
The path lookup util is a way to construct the resource name of an entity if you
know all of the relevant IDs related to that entity. For example, a campaign
resource name is in the formatcustomers/{customer_id}/campaigns/{campaign_id}, so if you know the customer
ID and the campaign ID, you can use the path lookup util to construct the full
resource name as follows:
client.path.campaign(customer_id,campaign_id)
You can use other entity names as well, which take different IDs depending on
the final form of the resource name.
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