Can't reliably get deleted items, exceptions thrown when trying to modify a deleted item.

[madsem]

Hi,

I don't understand how one is supposed to sync deleted entities via API? Because the GET services do not return a deleted status, the performance reports are unreliable at best. I have an adgroup performance report, it shows ad groups as active, but the entire campaign was deleted (It also had impressions).

But then when you try to modify deleted items, the Microsoft ads client throws exceptions (Which in turn cannot really be handled because I can't tell which items are deleted, so these exceptions just clutter my sentry logs).

Am I being too blind to see something obvious, or is the above really how this works and there's nothing I can do about it?

[qitia]

I asked the feature team and here is the answer:

Reporting API doesn’t cascade down parent entity deletion status to its child. Customer deleted campaign, so campaign status will be deleted, not ad groups, keywords, ads/ etc. underneath that campaign. Customer can fetch campaign status too along with ad group status and combine it their side.