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Region value is not being returned through SDK

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
api

Research direction

No source file or test is named. Start by comparing the SDK request and response handling with the provided curl request for the Campaign Insights region breakdown; done means the SDK can request region and returns region values without the invalid-fields error, with coverage for the reported parameters.

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Description

Stale
Which SDK version are you using?

v8.0

What's the issue?

Apparently, the API seems to be inconsistent between requests to different breakdowns. Specifically working with region.

Campaign Insights supports region, but that value is not being returned in the results.
This only happens using the SDK. Through api, it works.

Steps/Sample code to reproduce the issue

Requests params:

"level" -> "campaign"
"time_range" -> "{'since':'2020-12-04','until':'2020-12-10'}"
"breakdowns" -> "region"
"action_breakdowns" -> "action_type"
"fields" -> "account_name,campaign_id,campaign_name,impressions,clicks,actions,action_values,spend,date_start,buying_type,objective,reach,account_id,region"
"filtering" -> "[{'field':'ad.impressions','operator':'GREATER_THAN','value':-1}]"
"time_increment" -> "1"

Response message:
(#100) region is not valid for fields param. please check https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/reference/ads-insights/ for all valid values

If the region field is removed from "fields", the result is correct but the region value is not present

Observed Results:
  • What happened? This could be a description, log output, etc.

Region value is not being returned through SDK.

Expected Results:
  • What did you expect to happen?

Using API:
Request:

curl -G \
-d "breakdowns=age,gender,region" \
-d "fields=impressions,region" \
-d "appsecret_proof=APP_SECRET" \
-d "access_token=TOKEN" \
"https://graph.facebook.com/v9.0/{CAMPAIGN}/insights"

Response:

{
	"data": [{
		"impressions": "1326",
		"region": "Alabama"
	}, {
		"impressions": "194",
		"region": "Alaska"
	}, {
		"impressions": "1113",
		"region": "Arizona"
	}, {
		"impressions": "758",
		"region": "Arkansas"
	}, {
		"impressions": "3074",
		"region": "California"
	}....
]
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