Analytics Hub Client Libraries

This page shows how to get started with the Cloud Client Libraries for the Analytics Hub API. Client libraries make it easier to access Google Cloud APIs from a supported language. Although you can use Google Cloud APIs directly by making raw requests to the server, client libraries provide simplifications that significantly reduce the amount of code you need to write.

Read more about the Cloud Client Libraries and the older Google API Client Libraries in Client libraries explained.

Install the client library

C#

Install-Package Google.Cloud.BigQuery.AnalyticsHub.V1 -Pre

For more information, see Setting Up a C# Development Environment.

Go

go get cloud.google.com/go/bigquery

For more information, see Setting Up a Go Development Environment.

Java

For more information, see Setting Up a Java Development Environment.

Node.js

npm install @google-cloud/bigquery-data-exchange

For more information, see Setting Up a Node.js Development Environment.

PHP

composer require google/cloud-bigquery-analyticshub

For more information, see Using PHP on Google Cloud.

Python

pip install --upgrade google-cloud-bigquery-analyticshub

For more information, see Setting Up a Python Development Environment.

Ruby

gem install google-cloud-bigquery-analytics_hub-v1

For more information, see Setting Up a Ruby Development Environment.

Set up authentication

To authenticate calls to Google Cloud APIs, client libraries support Application Default Credentials (ADC); the libraries look for credentials in a set of defined locations and use those credentials to authenticate requests to the API. With ADC, you can make credentials available to your application in a variety of environments, such as local development or production, without needing to modify your application code.

For production environments, the way you set up ADC depends on the service and context. For more information, see Set up Application Default Credentials.

For a local development environment, you can set up ADC with the credentials that are associated with your Google Account:

1. Install the Google Cloud CLI, then initialize it by running the following command:

   gcloud init

2. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account:

   gcloud auth application-default login

   You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.

   A sign-in screen appears. After you sign in, your credentials are stored in the local credential file used by ADC.

Use the client library

The following example demonstrates some basic interactions with Analytics Hub.

Go

// Copyright 2022 Google LLC
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// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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//
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//
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// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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// The analyticshub quickstart application demonstrates usage of the
// Analytics hub API by creating an example data exchange and listing.
package main

import (
	"context"
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	analyticshub "cloud.google.com/go/bigquery/analyticshub/apiv1"
	"cloud.google.com/go/bigquery/analyticshub/apiv1/analyticshubpb"
	"google.golang.org/grpc/codes"
	"google.golang.org/grpc/status"
)

func main() {

	// Define the command line flags for controlling the behavior of this quickstart.
	var (
		projectID            = flag.String("project_id", "", "Cloud Project ID, used for session creation.")
		location             = flag.String("location", "US", "BigQuery location used for interactions.")
		exchangeID           = flag.String("exchange_id", "ExampleDataExchange", "identifier of the example data exchange")
		listingID            = flag.String("listing_id", "ExampleDataExchange", "identifier of the example data exchange")
		exampleDatasetSource = flag.String("dataset_source", "", "dataset source in the form projects/myproject/datasets/mydataset")
		delete               = flag.Bool("delete_exchange", true, "delete exchange at the end of quickstart")
	)
	flag.Parse()
	// Perform simple validation of the specified flags.
	if *projectID == "" {
		log.Fatal("empty --project_id specified, please provide a valid project ID")
	}
	if *exampleDatasetSource == "" {
		log.Fatalf("empty --dataset_source specified, please provide in the form \"projects/myproject/datasets/mydataset\"")
	}

	// Instantiate the client.
	ctx := context.Background()
	ahubClient, err := analyticshub.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("NewClient: %v", err)
	}
	defer ahubClient.Close()

	// Then, create the data exchange (or return information about one already bearing the example name), and
	// print information about it.
	exchange, err := createOrGetDataExchange(ctx, ahubClient, *projectID, *location, *exchangeID)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to get information about the exchange: %v", err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("\nData Exchange Information\n")
	fmt.Printf("Exchange Name: %s\n", exchange.GetName())
	if desc := exchange.GetDescription(); desc != "" {
		fmt.Printf("Exchange Description: %s", desc)
	}

	// Finally, create a listing within the data exchange and print information about it.
	listing, err := createListing(ctx, ahubClient, *projectID, *location, *exchangeID, *listingID, *exampleDatasetSource)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to create the listing within the exchange: %v", err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("\n\nListing Information\n")
	fmt.Printf("Listing Name: %s\n", listing.GetName())
	if desc := listing.GetDescription(); desc != "" {
		fmt.Printf("Listing Description: %s\n", desc)
	}
	fmt.Printf("Listing State: %s\n", listing.GetState().String())
	if source := listing.GetSource(); source != nil {
		if dsSource, ok := source.(*analyticshubpb.Listing_BigqueryDataset); ok && dsSource.BigqueryDataset != nil {
			if dataset := dsSource.BigqueryDataset.GetDataset(); dataset != "" {
				fmt.Printf("Source is a bigquery dataset: %s", dataset)
			}
		}
	}
	// Optionally, delete the data exchange at the end of the quickstart to clean up the resources used.
	if *delete {
		fmt.Printf("\n\n")
		if err := deleteDataExchange(ctx, ahubClient, *projectID, *location, *exchangeID); err != nil {
			log.Fatalf("failed to delete exchange: %v", err)
		}
		fmt.Printf("Exchange projects/%s/locations/%s/dataExchanges/%s was deleted.\n", *projectID, *location, *exchangeID)
	}
	fmt.Printf("\nQuickstart completed.\n")
}

// createOrGetDataExchange creates an example data exchange, or returns information about the exchange already bearing
// the example identifier.
func createOrGetDataExchange(ctx context.Context, client *analyticshub.Client, projectID, location, exchangeID string) (*analyticshubpb.DataExchange, error) {
	req := &analyticshubpb.CreateDataExchangeRequest{
		Parent:         fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/locations/%s", projectID, location),
		DataExchangeId: exchangeID,
		DataExchange: &analyticshubpb.DataExchange{
			DisplayName:    "Example Data Exchange",
			Description:    "Exchange created as part of an API quickstart",
			PrimaryContact: "",
			Documentation:  "https://link.to.optional.documentation/",
		},
	}

	resp, err := client.CreateDataExchange(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		// We'll handle one specific error case specially, the case of the exchange already existing.  In this instance,
		// we'll issue a second request to fetch the exchange information for the already present exchange and return it.
		if code := status.Code(err); code == codes.AlreadyExists {
			getReq := &analyticshubpb.GetDataExchangeRequest{
				Name: fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/locations/%s/dataExchanges/%s", projectID, location, exchangeID),
			}
			resp, err = client.GetDataExchange(ctx, getReq)
			if err != nil {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("error getting dataExchange: %w", err)
			}
			return resp, nil
		}
		// For all other cases, return the error from creation request.
		return nil, err
	}
	return resp, nil
}

// createListing creates an example listing within the specified exchange using the provided source dataset.
func createListing(ctx context.Context, client *analyticshub.Client, projectID, location, exchangeID, listingID, sourceDataset string) (*analyticshubpb.Listing, error) {
	req := &analyticshubpb.CreateListingRequest{
		Parent:    fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/locations/%s/dataExchanges/%s", projectID, location, exchangeID),
		ListingId: listingID,
		Listing: &analyticshubpb.Listing{
			DisplayName: "Example Exchange Listing",
			Description: "Example listing created as part of an API quickstart",
			Categories: []analyticshubpb.Listing_Category{
				analyticshubpb.Listing_CATEGORY_OTHERS,
			},
			Source: &analyticshubpb.Listing_BigqueryDataset{
				BigqueryDataset: &analyticshubpb.Listing_BigQueryDatasetSource{
					Dataset: sourceDataset,
				},
			},
		},
	}
	return client.CreateListing(ctx, req)
}

// deleteDataExchange deletes a data exchange.
func deleteDataExchange(ctx context.Context, client *analyticshub.Client, projectID, location, exchangeID string) error {
	req := &analyticshubpb.DeleteDataExchangeRequest{
		Name: fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/locations/%s/dataExchanges/%s", projectID, location, exchangeID),
	}
	return client.DeleteDataExchange(ctx, req)
}

Node.js

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
 */
/**
 *  Required. The parent resource path of the DataExchanges.
 *  e.g. `projects/myproject/locations/US`.
 */
// const parent = 'abc123'
/**
 *  The maximum number of results to return in a single response page. Leverage
 *  the page tokens to iterate through the entire collection.
 */
// const pageSize = 1234
/**
 *  Page token, returned by a previous call, to request the next page of
 *  results.
 */
// const pageToken = 'abc123'

// Imports the Dataexchange library
const {AnalyticsHubServiceClient} =
  require('@google-cloud/bigquery-data-exchange').v1beta1;

// Instantiates a client
const dataexchangeClient = new AnalyticsHubServiceClient();

async function callListDataExchanges() {
  // Construct request
  const request = {
    parent,
  };

  // Run request
  const iterable = await dataexchangeClient.listDataExchangesAsync(request);
  for await (const response of iterable) {
    console.log(response);
  }
}

callListDataExchanges();

Additional resources

C#

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for C#:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-bigquery on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Go

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Go:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-bigquery on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Java

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Java:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-bigquery on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Node.js

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Node.js:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-bigquery on Stack Overflow
• Source code

PHP

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for PHP:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-bigquery on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Python

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Python:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-bigquery on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Ruby

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Ruby:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-bigquery on Stack Overflow
• Source code

What's next?

For more background, see Introduction to Analytics Hub.