Will anyone help me debug "proto descriptor was previously loaded" from Google Ads API
I'm getting this error when running this code:
$googleAdsClient->getGoogleAdsServiceClient()->search($customerId, $query, $page_size); ERROR message: proto descriptor was previously loaded (included in multiple metadata bundles?): google/ads/googleads/v5/enums/policy_topic_evidence_destination_not_working_dns_error_type.proto
$googleAdsClient is an instance of \Google\Ads\GoogleAds\Lib\V5\GoogleAdsClient.
The getGoogleAdsServiceClient method comes from the ServiceClientFactoryTrait trait /Google/Ads/GoogleAds/Lib/V5/ServiceClientFactoryTrait.php
I'm running:
php 7.4.1 grpc module version => 1.34.0 protobuf version => 3.14.0 Additional libs installed via composer:
google/grpc-gcp 0.1.5 gRPC GCP library for channel management google/protobuf v3.13.0.1 proto library for PHP googleads/google-ads-php v5.0.0 Google Ads API client for PHP grpc/grpc 1.30.0 gRPC library for PHP I don't know enough about descriptors or the protobuf library to understand this error. It just started happening a couple days ago and I don't think we made any changes that would effect this. Any help/guidance would be much appreciated.
EDIT: forgot to link to SDK https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-php
EDIT: updated the following libs:
google/apiclient v2.9.1 Client library for Google APIs google/apiclient-services v0.161.0 Client library for Google APIs google/auth v1.15.0 Google Auth Library for PHP google/common-protos 1.3 Google API Common Protos for PHP google/gax 1.7.0 Google API Core for PHP google/grpc-gcp 0.1.5 gRPC GCP library for channel management google/protobuf v3.15.3 proto library for PHP googleads/google-ads-php v7.0.0 Google Ads API client for PHP grpc/grpc 1.35.0 gRPC library for PHP google/protobuf v3.15.3 proto library for PHP
This problem was addressed in https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-php/issues/540 and fixed in protobuf version 3.18.0 ( https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/tag/v3.18.0 )
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I found the issue for me. I had the C implementation installed via pecl install protobuf. Sense I'm running my app in a docker container, every time I built a new image it would install the latest release of protobuf. Sense I started seeing this error around the 22nd of Feb I looked at the protobuf builds and I see a build on the 20th of Feb for version 3.15.0 which coincides with a new build I ran on the 22nd.
To fix this I downgraded to version 3.14.0 via the pecl install protobuf-3.14.0 command in my Dockerfile. This isn't a permanent fix as at some point I want to upgrade the package but I will have to wait for a version that deals with this issue.
I have same error, I commented out the line
; extension=protobuf.soin /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini and in /etc/php/7.4/cli/php.ini and restart apache
sudo service apache2 restartand error was gone, I hope this will be helpful for someone.
The error is because two library is your project are providing the proto descriptor for same file policy_topic_evidence_destination_not_working_dns_error_type.proto.
Looks like this issue was fixed in version v6 for google ads library link
Just update the library to v6 and above (latest is v7) and it should fix the problem.
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