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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("Reading all greeting rows:")
err = tbl.ReadRows(ctx, bigtable.PrefixRange(columnName), func(row bigtable.Row) bool {
	item := row[columnFamilyName][0]
	log.Printf("\t%s = %s\n", item.Row, string(item.Value))
	return true
}, bigtable.RowFilter(bigtable.ColumnFilter(columnName)))

if err = client.Close(); err != nil {
	log.Fatalf("Could not close data operations 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. 

try {
  System.out.println("\nReading the entire table");
  Query query = Query.create(tableId);
  ServerStream<Row> rowStream = dataClient.readRows(query);
  List<Row> tableRows = new ArrayList<>();
  for (Row r : rowStream) {
    System.out.println("Row Key: " + r.getKey().toStringUtf8());
    tableRows.add(r);
    for (RowCell cell : r.getCells()) {
      System.out.printf(
          "Family: %s    Qualifier: %s    Value: %s%n",
          cell.getFamily(), cell.getQualifier().toStringUtf8(), cell.getValue().toStringUtf8());
    }
  }
  return tableRows;
} catch (NotFoundException e) {
  System.err.println("Failed to read a non-existent table: " + e.getMessage());
  return null;
}

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. 

$columnFamilyId = 'cf1';
$column = 'greeting';
printf('Scanning for all greetings:' . PHP_EOL);
$partialRows = $table->readRows([])->readAll();
foreach ($partialRows as $row) {
    printf('%s' . PHP_EOL, $row[$columnFamilyId][$column][0]['value']);
}

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("Scanning for all greetings:")
partial_rows = table.read_rows(filter_=row_filter)

for row in partial_rows:
    cell = row.cells[column_family_id][column][0]
    print(cell.value.decode("utf-8"))

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