Client Bidder / PBS Doc Conflation?

[bishpls]

I've been running into some quirks(?) in the documentation that I'm not sure are examples of errant docs, or a conflation of capabilities between client bidder and PBS bidder, or working-as-intended functionality.

Examples:

Appnexus client bidder does not consume First Party Data (https://docs.prebid.org/dev-docs/bidders/appnexus.html#first-party-data), but flags it as enabled; it only supports FPD via PBS.

AMX client bidder (https://docs.prebid.org/dev-docs/bidders/amx.html) claims to support display, video, and native mediaTypes; this is incorrect, and only display/video are supported. Native does appear to be supported in the PBS bidder.

Is it intended for the client bidder documentation to reflect total combined capabilities of client + PBS bidders, even though PBS bidders have their own doc page?

Is this a result of the output docs just being duplicated between client / PBS bidders so as to not maintain two separate documentation files, even when capabilities meaningfully differ between the two bidders?

[ChrisHuie]

So currently the docs for PBS / PBjs are located in separate places but pull from the same core assertions. I see the current workflow issues though if a PBS and PBjs adapter don't match. We just started quantifying how many adapters are different from the server and js side and it was more than we thought. I will bring this up to figure out the best way to move forward so docs reflect the adapter you are referencing.

[bretg]

The way this is supposed to work is that bidders are supposed to qualify how their PBJS and PBS adapters are different. If they're so different that they warrant separate files, that's allowed. Index and oftmedia do it that way.

The only way we can deal with this is to rely on people like you to report the issues and then we can tag the relevant people to fix the docs.

• appnexus - @jsnellbaker or @SyntaxNode - please consider updating the appnexus.md file to clarify the FPD differences between client and server
• AMX - @nickjacob - please confirm the mediatype difference. In this case, we'll have to split the AMX documentation into client and server.

[nickjacob]

@bretg this is correct, we don't support native yet in prebid.js -- we're planning on adding support soon, but I'll make a PR to separate the docs until then

[jsnellbaker]

We already have a note about the differences of support. I'll submit a PR to flip the flag.