Get view properties

Retrieve the properties of a view for a given view ID.

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For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

• Getting information about views

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.

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

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

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

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

	view := client.Dataset(datasetID).Table(viewID)
	meta, err := view.Metadata(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "View %s, query: %s\n", view.FullyQualifiedName(), meta.ViewQuery)
	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.Table;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.TableId;

// Sample to get a view
public class GetView {

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

  public static void getView(String datasetName, String viewName) {
    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();

      TableId tableId = TableId.of(datasetName, viewName);
      Table view = bigquery.getTable(tableId);
      System.out.println("View retrieved successfully" + view.getDescription());
    } catch (BigQueryException e) {
      System.out.println("View not retrieved. \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.

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

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

async function getView() {
  // Retrieves view properties.

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

  // Retrieve view
  const dataset = bigquery.dataset(datasetId);
  const [view] = await dataset.table(tableId).get();

  const fullTableId = view.metadata.id;
  const viewQuery = view.metadata.view.query;

  // Display view properties
  console.log(`View at ${fullTableId}`);
  console.log(`View query: ${viewQuery}`);
}
getView();

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.

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

from google.cloud import bigquery

client = bigquery.Client()

view_id = "my-project.my_dataset.my_view"
# Make an API request to get the table resource.
view = client.get_table(view_id)

# Display view properties
print(f"Retrieved {view.table_type}: {str(view.reference)}")
print(f"View Query:\n{view.view_query}")

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