BigQuery Data Transfer Client Libraries

This page shows how to get started with the Cloud Client Libraries for the BigQuery Data Transfer API. Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the older Google APIs Client Libraries, in Client Libraries Explained.

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Installing the client library

C#

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

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

Go

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

go get -u cloud.google.com/go/bigquery/datatransfer/apiv1

Java

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

If you are using Maven, add the following to your pom.xml file. For more information about BOMs, see The Google Cloud Platform Libraries BOM.

<dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
      <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId>
      <version>20.4.0</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>google-cloud-bigquerydatatransfer</artifactId>
  </dependency>

If you are using Gradle, add the following to your dependencies:

implementation platform('com.google.cloud:libraries-bom:20.4.0')

compile 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-bigquerydatatransfer'

If you are using sbt, add the following to your dependencies:

libraryDependencies += "com.google.cloud" % "google-cloud-bigquerydatatransfer" % "1.2.16"

If you're using IntelliJ or Eclipse, you can add client libraries to your project using the following IDE plugins:

• Cloud Code for IntelliJ
• Cloud Tools for Eclipse

The plugins provide additional functionality, such as key management for service accounts. Refer to each plugin's documentation for details.

Note: Cloud Java client libraries do not currently support Android.

Node.js

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

npm install --save @google-cloud/bigquery-data-transfer

PHP

For more information, see Using PHP on Google Cloud.

composer require google/cloud-bigquerydatatransfer

Python

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

pip install --upgrade google-cloud-bigquery-datatransfer

Ruby

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

gem install google-cloud-bigquery-data_transfer

Setting up authentication

To run the client library, you must first set up authentication by creating a service account and setting an environment variable. Complete the following steps to set up authentication. For other ways to authenticate, see the GCP authentication documentation.

Cloud Console

Create a service account:

1. In the Cloud Console, go to the Create service account page.

   Go to Create service account
2. Select a project.

3. In the Service account name field, enter a name. The Cloud Console fills in the Service account ID field based on this name.

   In the Service account description field, enter a description. For example, Service account for quickstart.

4. Click Create.

5. Click the Select a role field.

   Under Quick access, click Basic, then click Owner.

   Note: The Role field affects which resources your service account can access in your project. You can revoke these roles or grant additional roles later. In production environments, do not grant the Owner, Editor, or Viewer roles. For more information, see Granting, changing, and revoking access to resources.
6. Click Continue.

7. Click Done to finish creating the service account.

   Do not close your browser window. You will use it in the next step.

Create a service account key:

1. In the Cloud Console, click the email address for the service account that you created.
2. Click Keys.
3. Click Add key, then click Create new key.
4. Click Create. A JSON key file is downloaded to your computer.
5. Click Close.

Command line

You can run the following commands using the Cloud SDK on your local machine, or in Cloud Shell.

1. Create the service account. Replace NAME with a name for the service account.

   gcloud iam service-accounts create NAME

2. Grant permissions to the service account. Replace PROJECT_ID with your project ID.

   gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member="serviceAccount:NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com" --role="roles/owner"

   Note: The --role flag affects which resources your service account can access in your project. You can revoke these roles or grant additional roles later. In production environments, do not grant the Owner, Editor, or Viewer roles. For more information, see Granting, changing, and revoking access to resources.

3. Generate the key file. Replace FILE_NAME with a name for the key file.

   gcloud iam service-accounts keys create FILE_NAME.json --iam-account=NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com

Provide authentication credentials to your application code by setting the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS. This variable only applies to your current shell session, so if you open a new session, set the variable again.

Linux or macOS

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="KEY_PATH"

Replace KEY_PATH with the path of the JSON file that contains your service account key.

For example:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/home/user/Downloads/service-account-file.json"

Windows

For PowerShell:

$env:GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="KEY_PATH"

Replace KEY_PATH with the path of the JSON file that contains your service account key.

For example:

$env:GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="C:\Users\username\Downloads\service-account-file.json"

For command prompt:

set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=KEY_PATH

Replace KEY_PATH with the path of the JSON file that contains your service account key.

Using the client library

The following example shows how to use the client library.

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in the BigQuery Data Transfer Quickstart Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Data Transfer C# API reference documentation.

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using System;
using Google.Api.Gax;
using Google.Cloud.BigQuery.DataTransfer.V1;

namespace GoogleCloudSamples
{
    public class QuickStart
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Instantiates a client
            DataTransferServiceClient client = DataTransferServiceClient.Create();

            // Your Google Cloud Platform project ID
            string projectId = "YOUR-PROJECT-ID";

            ProjectName project = new ProjectName(projectId);
            var sources = client.ListDataSources(ParentNameOneof.From(project));
            Console.WriteLine("Supported Data Sources:");
            foreach (DataSource source in sources)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(
                    $"{source.DataSourceId}: " +
                    $"{source.DisplayName} ({source.Description})");
            }
        }
    }
}

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the BigQuery Data Transfer Quickstart Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Data Transfer Go API reference documentation.

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// Sample bigquery-quickstart creates a Google BigQuery dataset.
package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"google.golang.org/api/iterator"

	// Imports the BigQuery Data Transfer client package.
	datatransfer "cloud.google.com/go/bigquery/datatransfer/apiv1"
	datatransferpb "google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/cloud/bigquery/datatransfer/v1"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()

	// Sets your Google Cloud Platform project ID.
	projectID := "YOUR_PROJECT_ID"

	// Creates a client.
	client, err := datatransfer.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to create client: %v", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	req := &datatransferpb.ListDataSourcesRequest{
		Parent: fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s", projectID),
	}
	it := client.ListDataSources(ctx, req)
	fmt.Println("Supported Data Sources:")
	for {
		ds, err := it.Next()
		if err == iterator.Done {
			break
		}
		if err != nil {
			log.Fatalf("Failed to list sources: %v", err)
		}
		fmt.Println(ds.DisplayName)
		fmt.Println("\tID: ", ds.DataSourceId)
		fmt.Println("\tFull path: ", ds.Name)
		fmt.Println("\tDescription: ", ds.Description)
	}
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the BigQuery Data Transfer Quickstart Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Data Transfer Java API reference documentation.

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// Imports the Google Cloud client library

import com.google.cloud.bigquery.datatransfer.v1.DataSource;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.datatransfer.v1.DataTransferServiceClient;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.datatransfer.v1.DataTransferServiceClient.ListDataSourcesPagedResponse;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.datatransfer.v1.ListDataSourcesRequest;

public class QuickstartSample {
  /**
   * List available data sources for the BigQuery Data Transfer service.
   */
  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // Sets your Google Cloud Platform project ID.
    // String projectId = "YOUR_PROJECT_ID";
    String projectId = args[0];

    // Instantiate a client. If you don't specify credentials when constructing a client, the
    // client library will look for credentials in the environment, such as the
    // GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable.
    try (DataTransferServiceClient client = DataTransferServiceClient.create()) {
      // Request the list of available data sources.
      String parent = String.format("projects/%s", projectId);
      ListDataSourcesRequest request =
          ListDataSourcesRequest.newBuilder()
              .setParent(parent)
              .build();
      ListDataSourcesPagedResponse response = client.listDataSources(request);

      // Print the results.
      System.out.println("Supported Data Sources:");
      for (DataSource dataSource : response.iterateAll()) {
        System.out.println(dataSource.getDisplayName());
        System.out.printf("\tID: %s%n", dataSource.getDataSourceId());
        System.out.printf("\tFull path: %s%n", dataSource.getName());
        System.out.printf("\tDescription: %s%n", dataSource.getDescription());
      }
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the BigQuery Data Transfer Quickstart Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Data Transfer Node.js API reference documentation.

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const bigqueryDataTransfer = require('@google-cloud/bigquery-data-transfer');
const client = new bigqueryDataTransfer.v1.DataTransferServiceClient();

async function quickstart() {
  const projectId = await client.getProjectId();

  // Iterate over all elements.
  const formattedParent = client.projectPath(projectId, 'us-central1');
  let nextRequest = {parent: formattedParent};
  const options = {autoPaginate: false};
  console.log('Data sources:');
  do {
    // Fetch the next page.
    const responses = await client.listDataSources(nextRequest, options);
    // The actual resources in a response.
    const resources = responses[0];
    // The next request if the response shows that there are more responses.
    nextRequest = responses[1];
    // The actual response object, if necessary.
    // const rawResponse = responses[2];
    resources.forEach(resource => {
      console.log(`  ${resource.name}`);
    });
  } while (nextRequest);

  console.log('\n\n');
  console.log('Sources via stream:');

  client
    .listDataSourcesStream({parent: formattedParent})
    .on('data', element => {
      console.log(`  ${element.name}`);
    });
}
quickstart();

PHP

Before trying this sample, follow the PHP setup instructions in the BigQuery Data Transfer Quickstart Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Data Transfer PHP API reference documentation.

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# Includes the autoloader for libraries installed with composer
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

# Imports the Google Cloud client library
use Google\Cloud\BigQuery\DataTransfer\V1\DataTransferServiceClient;

# Instantiates a client
$bqdtsClient = new DataTransferServiceClient();

# Your Google Cloud Platform project ID
$projectId = 'YOUR_PROJECT_ID';
$parent = sprintf('projects/%s/locations/us', $projectId);

try {
    echo 'Supported Data Sources:', PHP_EOL;
    $pagedResponse = $bqdtsClient->listDataSources($parent);
    foreach ($pagedResponse->iterateAllElements() as $dataSource) {
        echo 'Data source: ', $dataSource->getDisplayName(), PHP_EOL;
        echo 'ID: ', $dataSource->getDataSourceId(), PHP_EOL;
        echo 'Full path: ', $dataSource->getName(), PHP_EOL;
        echo 'Description: ', $dataSource->getDescription(), PHP_EOL;
    }
} finally {
    $bqdtsClient->close();
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the BigQuery Data Transfer Quickstart Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Data Transfer Python API reference documentation.

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from google.cloud import bigquery_datatransfer

client = bigquery_datatransfer.DataTransferServiceClient()

# TODO: Update to your project ID.
project_id = "my-project"

# Get the full path to your project.
parent = client.common_project_path(project_id)

print("Supported Data Sources:")

# Iterate over all possible data sources.
for data_source in client.list_data_sources(parent=parent):
    print("{}:".format(data_source.display_name))
    print("\tID: {}".format(data_source.data_source_id))
    print("\tFull path: {}".format(data_source.name))
    print("\tDescription: {}".format(data_source.description))

Ruby

Before trying this sample, follow the Ruby setup instructions in the BigQuery Data Transfer Quickstart Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Data Transfer Ruby API reference documentation.

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# Imports the Google Cloud client library
require "google/cloud/bigquery/data_transfer"

# Your Google Cloud Platform project ID
# project_id = "YOUR_PROJECT_ID"

# Instantiate a client
data_transfer = Google::Cloud::Bigquery::DataTransfer.data_transfer_service

# Get the full path to your project.
project_path = data_transfer.project_path project: project_id

puts "Supported Data Sources:"

# Iterate over all possible data sources.
data_transfer.list_data_sources(parent: project_path).each do |data_source|
  puts "Data source: #{data_source.display_name}"
  puts "ID: #{data_source.data_source_id}"
  puts "Full path: #{data_source.name}"
  puts "Description: #{data_source.description}"
end

Additional resources

C#

• API Reference Documentation
• Source Code
• GitHub Issue Tracker
• Stack Overflow

Go

• API Reference Documentation
• Source Code
• GitHub Issue Tracker
• Stack Overflow

Java

• API Reference Documentation
• Source Code
• GitHub Issue Tracker
• Stack Overflow

Node.js

• API Reference Documentation
• Source Code
• GitHub Issue Tracker
• Stack Overflow

PHP

• API Reference Documentation
• Source Code
• GitHub Issue Tracker
• Stack Overflow

Python

• API Reference Documentation
• Source Code
• GitHub Issue Tracker
• Stack Overflow

Ruby

• API Reference Documentation
• Source Code
• GitHub Issue Tracker
• Stack Overflow