Method: projects.locations.repositories.readFile

Returns the contents of a file (inside a Repository). The Repository must not have a value for gitRemoteSettings.url.

HTTP request

GET https://dataform.googleapis.com/v1beta1/{name=projects/*/locations/*/repositories/*}:readFile

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
name

string

Required. The repository's name.

Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource name:

  • dataform.repositories.readFile

Query parameters

Parameters
commitSha

string

Optional. The commit SHA for the commit to read from. If unset, the file will be read from HEAD.

path

string

Required. Full file path to read including filename, from repository root.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

repositories.readFile response message.

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation
{
  "contents": string
}
Fields
contents

string (bytes format)

The file's contents.

A base64-encoded string.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • dataform.repositories.readFile

For more information, see the IAM documentation.