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Bidder does not currently support aliasing #1960

Closed smartbidder1 closed 6 years ago

smartbidder1 commented 6 years ago

Type of issue

alias support

Description

I want to use a different bidder name so I will see that in the analytics data, I've tried aliasing but almost every bidder doesn't support aliasing. I've tried: Openx, Sonobi, and Sharethrough.

Steps to reproduce

pbjs.aliasBidder('sharethrough', 'sharethrough_alias');

mkendall07 commented 6 years ago

Are you seeing an error? What's the issue exactly?

smartbidder1 commented 6 years ago

the error is adaptermanager.aliasBidAdapter: openx bidder does not currently support aliasing. I want to be able to create an alias to openx or every other adapter so I can separate the analytics data.

mkendall07 commented 6 years ago

@smartbidder1 what version of prebid? All adapters in prebid 1.0 should support aliasing I believe, but if you are using an older version it might not be supported.

smartbidder1 commented 6 years ago

@mkendall07 you are right, but 1.0.0 is missing a lot of bidders and we can't use it at this moment. any solution for 0.34?

dmitriyshashkin commented 6 years ago

@smartbidder1 are you sure that you use 0.34? I'm quite confident that both OpenX and Sharethrough support aliasing in 0.34

Unfortunately, there is unlikely any solution for Sonobi. You can try implementing aliasing support yourself, and then include the modified adapter into your own build of prebid. It's not that difficult, I've done this with other bidders with varying success, but the approach has obvious downsides.

mahammer commented 6 years ago

Same issue here. Just build 0.34.1 and tried to alias: pbjs.aliasBidder("featureforward", "brightcomff"); as Brightcom uses Feature Foward, doesn't work: prebid.js:3 featureforward bidder does not currently support aliasing. adaptermanager.aliasBidAdapter

mkendall07 commented 6 years ago

We didn't require adapters to support aliasing in pre 1.0 release. So support was in an opt in basis. Looking at featureforward adapter in the legacy branch (0.34.1) it doesn't support aliasing. They also have not submitted a 1.0 compliant adapter yet. The core library cannot do much about this unfortunately. I would suggest you contact your SSPs that don't support 1.0 yet and ask when they will be compliant.

Alternatively, you can fork and modify the bidders themselves as mentioned by @dmitriyshashkin