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Announcing the New DFP Playground

Today we’re pleased to announce the new and revamped DFP Playground. Like the previous Playground, you can test PQL statements and examine JSON equivalents of the objects you retrieve from the DFP API. In the new DFP Playground, you can easily switch between services using a tab interface, and you can even view documentation for a particular service with a simple click of a button.

The new DFP Playground's tab-based interface is cleaner and less crowded.

Clicking a result produces a dropdown with the object’s JSON representation.

Checking out the GitHub project

The DFP Playground is available on GitHub. Reading the code should give you a good idea of best practices for interacting with the DFP API via the Google Ads Python client library in a web application environment. The process to set up your own instance of the DFP Playground and deploy it to AppEngine is documented in the README.

Feel free to post any bug reports or feature requests in the issues section. If you have any questions regarding the DFP API, please reach out to us on our forum.

 - Andrew Yang, DFP API Team

Announcing the DFP API Playground GitHub project



As many of you are well aware, the DFP API Playground is a great tool to explore the DFP API. With it, you can easily test PQL statements and examine the JSON equivalent of the objects you fetch. Best of all, it acts as a full reference implementation of how you should integrate the API with App Engine, touching on features such as OAuth2 authentication, task queues, and channels.

Now, we are announcing the new GitHub project for the DFP API Playground, featuring all the benefits of being hosted on GitHub, improved getting started instructions, and revamped project downloads.

Taking it for a spin

The first thing you’ll notice when visiting the project is that we’ve made it incredibly easy to get up and running.

With Maven

If you are a Maven user, it’s as simple as modifying the appengine-web.xml file and running
 mvn appengine:devserver

We’ve also included an m2e project so developing with Eclipse is easier than ever. Just import the extracted dfp-playground-maven-project download into Eclipse, modify the appengine-web.xml file (in the src/main/webapp/WEB-INF directory), and run the DevAppServer.launch profile in the eclipse-launch-profiles folder.

With Google Plugin for Eclipse

We also heard you loud and clear that not everyone uses Maven, so we’ve added a Google Plugin for Eclipse project download which includes all jar dependencies. As with the Maven project, just extract the dfp-playground-jars-and-google-eclipse-plugin-project download, import it into Eclipse, add Google App Engine functionality to the project, modify the appengine-web.xml file (in the war/WEB-INF directory), and run the project like any other App Engine project.

If you’d like to learn more, take a look at the README. As always, we are open to any feedback, so please don’t hesitate to leave us any feature requests in the issues section. Also, if you’d like to contribute to the project, we welcome any patches (just make sure you become an official contributor first).

In the coming months, we’ll be adding even more functionality to the application, so stay tuned and happy hacking!

 - , DFP API Team