Allow bidders to subscribe to own timed out bid data

[matthewlane]

Type of issue

• Feature request

Add a function to the bidder spec definition that is called when a BID_TIMEOUT event occurs. Similar to pbjs.onEvent('bidTimeout', (data) => ... ), but the payload contains only the timed out bids for the subscribed bidder rather than all timed out bidders.

[ruturajv]

Thanks for filing this.

This event could be called adapterBidTimeout where the data can be already filtered for the given bidder, So that it doesn't conflict with the existing event used by Analytics Adapters.

The callback could have following data points

• bidder timeout setting (bidderTimeout)
• adapter's bid / no-bid response time (could fire this event something like after bidderTimeout. ie. 3580. If response doesn't come through even after this window, perhaps a null or something that doesn't pollute when averaging out this number.)
• Bid Request's POST body

[vedantseta]

Hi all,
Instead of adapters registering to events via pbjs.onEvent('adapterBidTimeout', (data) => ... ) , this can rather be a callback to a public function logTimeouts in bidder spec, similar to getUserSyncs with the params as mentioned by @ruturajv

Let me know your thoughts @matthewlane @ruturajv ?

will pick this up.

[matthewlane]

@vedantseta Right, i should have written the original description in a different way but was meaning that this would go in a bidder spec file just as you've mentioned, alongside the functions getUserSyncs, interpretResponse, buildRequests, etc, and receiving the same data as the BID_TMEOUT event but filtered for that particular bidder. Pull requests gladly accepted!

[vedantseta]

@matthewlane , along with data received in BID_TIMEOUT event, the publisher configured params for that bidder-slot combination should also be passed too.