Export a model

Export an existing model to an existing Cloud Storage bucket.

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• Export models

Code sample

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

using Google.Cloud.BigQuery.V2;
using System;

public class BigQueryExtractModel
{
    public void ExtractModel(string projectId, string datasetId, string modelId, string destinationUri)
    {
        BigQueryClient client = BigQueryClient.Create(projectId);
        BigQueryJob job = client.CreateModelExtractJob(
            projectId: projectId,
            datasetId: datasetId,
            modelId: modelId,
            destinationUri: destinationUri
        );
        job = job.PollUntilCompleted().ThrowOnAnyError();  // Waits for the job to complete.
        System.IO.File.AppendAllText("log.txt", $"Exported model to {destinationUri}");
        Console.Write($"Exported model to {destinationUri}");
    }
}

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	"cloud.google.com/go/bigquery"
)

// exportModel demonstrates how to export an existing
// BigQuery ML Model to Google Cloud Storage.
func exportModel(projectID, datasetID, modelID, gcsURI string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// datasetID := "dataset-id"
	// modelID := "model-id"
	// gcsURI := "gs://mybucket/path/to/model"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := bigquery.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("bigquery.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	gcsRef := bigquery.NewGCSReference(gcsURI)

	extractor := client.DatasetInProject(projectID, datasetID).Model(modelID).ExtractorTo(gcsRef)
	// You can choose to run the job in a specific location for more complex data locality scenarios.
	// Ex: In this example, source dataset and GCS bucket are in the US.
	extractor.Location = "US"

	job, err := extractor.Run(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	status, err := job.Wait(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	if err := status.Err(); err != nil {
		return err
	}
	return nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryException;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryOptions;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.ExtractJobConfiguration;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.Job;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.JobInfo;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.ModelId;

// Sample to extract model to GCS bucket
public class ExtractModel {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectName = "bigquery-public-data";
    String datasetName = "samples";
    String modelName = "model";
    String bucketName = "MY-BUCKET-NAME";
    String destinationUri = "gs://" + bucketName + "/path/to/file";
    extractModel(projectName, datasetName, modelName, destinationUri);
  }

  public static void extractModel(
      String projectName, String datasetName, String modelName, String destinationUri)
      throws InterruptedException {
    try {
      // Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
      // once, and can be reused for multiple requests.
      BigQuery bigquery = BigQueryOptions.getDefaultInstance().getService();

      ModelId modelId = ModelId.of(projectName, datasetName, modelName);

      ExtractJobConfiguration extractConfig =
          ExtractJobConfiguration.newBuilder(modelId, destinationUri).build();

      Job job = bigquery.create(JobInfo.of(extractConfig));

      // Blocks until this job completes its execution, either failing or succeeding.
      Job completedJob = job.waitFor();
      if (completedJob == null) {
        System.out.println("Job not executed since it no longer exists.");
        return;
      } else if (completedJob.getStatus().getError() != null) {
        System.out.println(
            "BigQuery was unable to extract due to an error: \n" + job.getStatus().getError());
        return;
      }
      System.out.println("Model extract successful");
    } catch (BigQueryException ex) {
      System.out.println("Model extraction job was interrupted. \n" + ex.toString());
    }
  }
}

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