Delete a table

Delete a table.

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Code sample

C++

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

google::cloud::Status status = table_admin.DeleteTable(table.table_name());
if (!status.ok()) throw std::runtime_error(status.message());

C#

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

// Clean up. Delete the table.
Console.WriteLine($"Delete table: {tableId}");

bigtableTableAdminClient.DeleteTable(name: tableName);
if (!TableExist(bigtableTableAdminClient))
{
    Console.WriteLine($"Table: {tableId} deleted successfully");
}

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

log.Printf("Deleting the table")
if err = adminClient.DeleteTable(ctx, tableName); err != nil {
	log.Fatalf("Could not delete table %s: %v", tableName, err)
}

if err = adminClient.Close(); err != nil {
	log.Fatalf("Could not close admin client: %v", err)
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

System.out.println("\nDeleting table: " + tableId);
try {
  adminClient.deleteTable(tableId);
  System.out.printf("Table %s deleted successfully%n", tableId);
} catch (NotFoundException e) {
  System.err.println("Failed to delete a non-existent table: " + e.getMessage());
}

Node.js

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

console.log('Delete the table');
await table.delete();

PHP

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

try {
    printf('Attempting to delete table %s.' . PHP_EOL, $tableId);
    $deleteTableRequest = (new DeleteTableRequest())
        ->setName($tableName);
    $tableAdminClient->deleteTable($deleteTableRequest);
    printf('Deleted %s table.' . PHP_EOL, $tableId);
} catch (ApiException $e) {
    if ($e->getStatus() === 'NOT_FOUND') {
        printf('Table %s does not exists' . PHP_EOL, $tableId);
    } else {
        throw $e;
    }
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

print("Deleting the {} table.".format(table_id))
table.delete()

Ruby

To learn how to install and use the client library for Bigtable, see Bigtable client libraries.

To authenticate to Bigtable, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

puts "Deleting the table #{table_id}"
# Call the admin API to delete the table given its full resource path.
table_client.delete_table name: table_name

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