Problem with wrapper, VASTAdTagURI and TrackingEvents

[ghost]

I’m trying to display an add in videojs using the onion vast plugin which uses vast-client. As soon as I have <TrackingEvents>, vast-client bombs saying for example Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'complete' of undefined.

If I remove the content of <TrackingEvents>, then everything works and the ad displays. Any ideas what could be going on?

Here’s the XML I used:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<VAST xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="vast.xsd" version="3.0">
  <Ad id="1">
    <Wrapper>
      <AdSystem>AdGear RTB</AdSystem>
      <VASTAdTagURI><![CDATA[http://ad3.liverail.com/?LR_PUBLISHER_ID=1331&LR_CAMPAIGN_ID=229&LR_SCHEMA=vast2#sthash.I98E97KQ.dpuf]]></VASTAdTagURI>
      <Impression><![CDATA[http://www.google.com]]></Impression>
      <Error><![CDATA[http://www.mytracker.com?vast3_error_[ERRORCODE].gif]]></Error>
      <Creatives>
        <Creative>
          <Linear>
            <TrackingEvents>
              <Tracking event="complete"><![CDATA[http://www.mytracker.com?complete.gif]]></Tracking>
              <Tracking event="firstQuartile"><![CDATA[http://www.mytracker.com?firstQuartile.gif]]></Tracking>
              <Tracking event="fullscreen"><![CDATA[http://www.mytracker.com?fullscreen.gif]]></Tracking>
              <Tracking event="midpoint"><![CDATA[http://www.mytracker.com?midpoint.gif]]></Tracking>
              <Tracking event="mute"><![CDATA[http://www.mytracker.com?mute.gif]]></Tracking>
              <Tracking event="pause"><![CDATA[http://www.mytracker.com?pause.gif]]></Tracking>
              <Tracking event="resume"><![CDATA[http://www.mytracker.com?resume.gif]]></Tracking>
              <Tracking event="rewind"><![CDATA[http://www.mytracker.com?rewind.gif]]></Tracking>
              <Tracking event="start"><![CDATA[http://www.mytracker.com?start.gif]]></Tracking>
              <Tracking event="thirdQuartile"><![CDATA[http://www.mytracker.com?thirdQuartile.gif]]></Tracking>
              <Tracking event="unmute"><![CDATA[http://www.mytracker.com?unmute.gif]]></Tracking>
            </TrackingEvents>
            <VideoClicks>
              <ClickTracking><![CDATA[http://www.mytracker.com?click.gif]]></ClickTracking>
            </VideoClicks>

          </Linear>
        </Creative>
      </Creatives>
    </Wrapper>
  </Ad>
</VAST>

[ghost]

Actually, I just updated to the latest vast-client and it seems that that solves the issue. I’ll try to get The Onion to update their plugin to use a more recent version of vast-client.

[briganti]

There is PR #50 on The Onion which will solve that.

[ghost]

I think it's just that in the process they updated vast-client too.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Alex Vasilenko [email protected]
wrote:

@michaelvial how VPAID integration can fix issues with tracking?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
#53 (comment)

[briganti]

Yeah, as The Onion PR will update vast-client to 1.3.0, which will solve this issue.

[mente]

Yeah, I understood this and deleted my comment :)

[mente]

Thought github has some delay before sending email notification

[rs]

@michaelvial is this fixed now? can we close?

[briganti]

@rs Yes, it is.