Get table labels

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Retrieve the labels of a table for a given table ID.

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Code sample

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. 

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

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

// tableLabels demonstrates fetching metadata from a table and printing the Label metadata to an io.Writer.
func tableLabels(w io.Writer, projectID, datasetID, tableID string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// datasetID := "mydataset"
	// tableID := "mytable"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := bigquery.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("bigquery.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	meta, err := client.Dataset(datasetID).Table(tableID).Metadata(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Table %s labels:\n", datasetID)
	if len(meta.Labels) == 0 {
		fmt.Fprintln(w, "Table has no labels defined.")
		return nil
	}
	for k, v := range meta.Labels {
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\t%s:%s\n", k, v)
	}
	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. 

import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryException;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryOptions;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.Table;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.TableId;

// Sample to get table labels
public class GetTableLabels {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String datasetName = "MY_DATASET_NAME";
    String tableName = "MY_TABLE_NAME";
    getTableLabels(datasetName, tableName);
  }

  public static void getTableLabels(String datasetName, String tableName) {
    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();

      // This example table starts with existing label { color: 'green' }
      Table table = bigquery.getTable(TableId.of(datasetName, tableName));
      table
          .getLabels()
          .forEach((key, value) -> System.out.println("Retrieved labels successfully"));
    } catch (BigQueryException e) {
      System.out.println("Label was not deleted. \n" + e.toString());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

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

// Import the Google Cloud client library
const {BigQuery} = require('@google-cloud/bigquery');
const bigquery = new BigQuery();

async function getTableLabels() {
  // Gets labels on a dataset.

  /**
   * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
   */
  // const datasetId = "my_dataset";
  // const tableId = "my_table";

  // Retrieve current dataset metadata.
  const table = bigquery.dataset(datasetId).table(tableId);
  const [metadata] = await table.getMetadata();
  const labels = metadata.labels;

  console.log(`${tableId} Labels:`);
  for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(labels)) {
    console.log(`${key}: ${value}`);
  }
}
getTableLabels();

Python

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

# from google.cloud import bigquery
# client = bigquery.Client()
# dataset_id = 'my_dataset'
# table_id = 'my_table'

project = client.project
dataset_ref = bigquery.DatasetReference(project, dataset_id)
table_ref = dataset_ref.table(table_id)
table = client.get_table(table_ref)  # API Request

# View table labels
print("Table ID: {}".format(table_id))
print("Labels:")
if table.labels:
    for label, value in table.labels.items():
        print("\t{}: {}".format(label, value))
else:
    print("\tTable has no labels defined.")

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