Checking prefix 'act_' for parent_id.

[hans-t]

from facebookads import FacebookAdsApi
from facebookads.objects import CustomAudience

my_app_id = <APP_ID>
my_app_secret = '<APP_SECRET>'
my_access_token = '<ACCESS_TOKEN>'
FacebookAdsApi.init(my_app_id, my_app_secret, my_access_token)

AD_ACCOUNT_ID = 1431453467646932

audience = CustomAudience(parent_id='{}'.format(AD_ACCOUNT_ID))
audience.update({
    CustomAudience.Field.name: 'someName',
    CustomAudience.Field.subtype: CustomAudience.Subtype.custom,
})

audience.remote_create()

When I ran this code it throws an error. But when I change the value of parent_id to 'act_{}'.format(AD_ACCOUNT_ID)', the code ran without error. Is this by design or a bug?

I would suggest that there is a check for parent_id whether it has prefix 'act_' or not.

[ezegolub]

+1, i'm having the same issue.

[ebzlo]

Hey @hanstzalora, this is intended as the root node for an account is act_[0-9]+

We unfortunately cannot do a trivial check as parent_id can sometimes be [0-9]+ (in the event of Business Manager, for example).

I will look into possibilities here as we do know which edges depend on an ad account root node.