Update an expiration time

Update a table's expiration time.

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

• Manage tables
• Managing 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"
	"time"

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

// updateTableExpiration demonstrates setting the table expiration of a table to a specific point in time
// in the future, at which time it will be deleted.
func updateTableExpiration(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()

	tableRef := client.Dataset(datasetID).Table(tableID)
	meta, err := tableRef.Metadata(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	update := bigquery.TableMetadataToUpdate{
		ExpirationTime: time.Now().Add(time.Duration(5*24) * time.Hour), // table expiration in 5 days.
	}
	if _, err = tableRef.Update(ctx, update, meta.ETag); 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.Table;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class UpdateTableExpiration {

  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";
    // Update table expiration to one day.
    Long newExpiration =
        TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.convert(1, TimeUnit.DAYS) + System.currentTimeMillis();
    updateTableExpiration(datasetName, tableName, newExpiration);
  }

  public static void updateTableExpiration(
      String datasetName, String tableName, Long newExpiration) {
    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();

      Table table = bigquery.getTable(datasetName, tableName);
      bigquery.update(table.toBuilder().setExpirationTime(newExpiration).build());

      System.out.println("Table expiration updated successfully to " + newExpiration);
    } catch (BigQueryException e) {
      System.out.println("Table expiration was not updated \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 updateTableExpiration() {
  // Updates a table's expiration.

  /**
   * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
   */
  // const datasetId = 'my_dataset', // Existing dataset
  // const tableId = 'my_table', // Existing table
  // const expirationTime = Date.now() + 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 5 // 5 days from current time in ms

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

  // Set new table expiration to 5 days from current time
  metadata.expirationTime = expirationTime.toString();
  const [apiResponse] = await table.setMetadata(metadata);

  const newExpirationTime = apiResponse.expirationTime;
  console.log(`${tableId} expiration: ${newExpirationTime}`);
}

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()

# TODO(dev): Change table_id to the full name of the table you want to update.
table_id = "your-project.your_dataset.your_table_name"

# TODO(dev): Set table to expire for desired days days from now.
expiration = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) + datetime.timedelta(
    days=5
)
table = client.get_table(table_id)  # Make an API request.
table.expires = expiration
table = client.update_table(table, ["expires"])  # API request

print(f"Updated {table_id}, expires {table.expires}.")

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