Resource Names

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.

ResourceNames class

The ResourceNames class 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 format:

  customers 
 / 
 { 
 customer_id 
 } 
 / 
 campaigns 
 / 
 { 
 campaign_id 
 } 
 

So if you know the customer ID and the campaign ID, you can use the ResourceNames class construct the full resource name as follows:

  String 
  
 campaignResourceName 
  
 = 
  
 ResourceNames 
 . 
 campaign 
 ( 
 customerId 
 , 
  
 campaignId 
 ); 
 

You can use other entity names as well, which take different IDs depending on the final form of the resource name.