Create and use subscriptions

Subscribers use a subscription to read messages from a topic. When you create a subscription, you attach it to a topic. You can attach many subscriptions to a single topic.

Key Point: Understand the properties of a subscription and learn how to create and perform lifecycle operations on a subscription.

Before you begin

Before you create a subscription, understand the different types of subscription available in Pub/Sub and which type of subscription suits your business needs. See Choose a subscription type.

For more information on the type of subscription that you choose and the unique properties associated with that type, see the following:

• Pull subscription
• Push subscription
• BigQuery subscription

Subscription properties

You can set subscription properties when you create or update a subscription.

The following is a list of properties common to all types of subscriptions. Note that this is a conceptual reference, and the examples on this page might not use all of these specific properties. To see the full list of properties unique to each type of subscription, see the associated reference document for the subscription type that you're using.

• Message retention duration. Specifies how long Pub/Sub retains messages after publication. After the message retention duration passes, Pub/Sub might discard the message independent of the acknowledgment state of the message. To retain acknowledged messages for the message retention duration, see Replaying and discarding messages.

  • Default value = 7 days
  • Minimum value = 10 minutes
  • Maximum value = 7 days

• Retain acknowledged messages. Acknowledged messages are retained for the specified message retention duration. This increases message storage fees.

• Expiration period. Subscriptions without any subscriber activity or changes made to the subscription properties expire. If Pub/Sub detects subscriber activity or if you update any of the subscription properties, the subscription deletion clock restarts. Examples of subscriber activities include open connections, active pulls, or successful pushes. The expiration period must be longer than the message retention duration.

  • Default value = 31 days
  • Minimum value = 1 day
  • Maximum value = 365 days. To prevent a subscription from expiring, set the expiration period to never.

• Acknowledgment deadline. Specifies the initial deadline after which an unacknowledged message is sent again. You can extend the Acknowledgement deadline on a per-message basis by sending subsequent ModifyAckDeadline requests.

  • Default value = 10 seconds
  • Minimum value = 10 seconds
  • Maximum value = 10 minutes

• Subscription filter. Specifies a string with a filtering expression. If a subscription has a filter, the subscription only delivers the messages that match the filter. You can filter messages by their attributes. If unspecified, the subscription doesn't filter messages and subscribers receive all messages. You cannot update a filter for a subscription.

• Message ordering. If publishers send messages with an ordering key and message ordering is set, Pub/Sub delivers the messages in order. If not set, Pub/Sub may not deliver messages in order, even if they have an ordering key.

• Dead letter topic. When a message can't be delivered after a set number of delivery attempts or a subscriber can't acknowledge the message, the message is republished to a dead-letter topic. For more information, see Forwarding to dead-letter topics. If you set a dead-letter topic, you can also specify the maximum number of delivery attempts. If the dead-letter topic is in a different project than the subscription, you must also specify the project ID with the dead-letter topic.

  • Default value = 5
  • Minimum value = 5
  • Maximum value = 100

• Retry policy. If the acknowledgment deadline expires or a subscriber responds with a negative acknowledgment, Pub/Sub can send the message again using exponential backoff. If the retry policy isn't set, Pub/Sub resends the message when the acknowledgment deadline expires or a subscriber responds with a negative acknowledgment.

  If the maximum value of backoff duration is set, the default value of minimum backoff duration is 10 seconds. If the minimum value of backoff duration is set, the default value of maximum backoff duration is 600 seconds.

  The longest backoff duration that you can specify is 600 seconds.

• Exactly-once delivery. If set, Pub/Sub fulfills exactly-once delivery guarantees. If unspecified, the subscription supports at-least-once delivery for each message.

Note: When you modify either the message retention duration or subscription expiration policy, the expiration period must be set to a value greater than the message retention duration. The default message retention duration is 7 days and the default expiration period is 31 days.

Retry policies

When a subscription has a retry policy, Pub/Sub resends unacknowledged messages after the backoff duration that you specify. Pub/Sub re-sends the messages after the backoff duration on a best-effort basis, so you might receive messages before the minimum backoff duration.

If messages are in a batch, Pub/Sub starts the exponential backoff when one of the following occurs:

• The subscriber sends a negative acknowledgment for every message in the batch.
• The acknowledgment deadline expires.

After the backoff duration, Pub/Sub redelivers the batch.

If you receive messages from a push subscription, Pub/Sub might redeliver messages after the push backoff instead of the exponential backoff duration. When the push backoff is longer than the exponential backoff duration, Pub/Sub redelivers unacknowledged messages after the push backoff.

Create subscriptions

You can use the Google Cloud console, the Google Cloud CLI, the client library, or the Pub/Sub API to create a subscription.

Pull subscription

The following samples demonstrate how to create a subscription with pull delivery, using the provided default settings.

Console

To create a pull subscription, complete the following steps.

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Subscriptions page.

   Go to Subscriptions

2. Click Create subscription.
3. For the Subscription ID field, enter a name.

   For information on how to name a subscription, see Guidelines to name a topic or a subscription.

4. Choose or create a topic from the drop-down menu. The subscription receives messages from the topic.
5. Retain the Delivery type as Pull.
6. Retain all other default values.
7. Click Create.

You can also create a subscription from the Topics section. This shortcut is useful for associating topics with subscriptions.

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Topics page.

   Go to Topics

2. Clicknext to the topic on which to create a subscription.
3. From the context menu, select Create subscription.
4. Enter the Subscription ID.

   For information on how to name a subscription, see Guidelines to name a topic or a subscription.

5. Retain the Delivery type as Pull.
6. Retain all other default values.
7. Click Create.

gcloud

1. In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

   Activate Cloud Shell

   At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

2. To create a pull subscription, run the gcloud pubsub subscriptions create command.

   gcloud pubsub subscriptions create SUBSCRIPTION_ID \
       --topic=TOPIC_ID

   Replace the following:

   • SUBSCRIPTION_ID: The name or ID of your new pull subscription.
   • TOPIC_ID: The name or ID of your topic.

REST

To create a pull subscription, use the projects.subscriptions.create method:

Request:

The request must be authenticated with an access token in the Authorization header. To obtain an access token for the current Application Default Credentials: gcloud auth application-default print-access-token.

PUT https://pubsub.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_ID
Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN

Request body:

{
  "topic": "projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/TOPIC_ID"
}

Where:

PROJECT_ID is your project ID.

SUBSCRIPTION_ID is your subscription ID.

TOPIC_ID is your topic ID.

Response:

{
  "name": "projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_ID",
  "topic": "projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/TOPIC_ID",
  "pushConfig": {},
  "ackDeadlineSeconds": 10,
  "messageRetentionDuration": "604800s",
  "expirationPolicy": {
    "ttl": "2678400s"
  }
}

C++

Before trying this sample, follow the C++ setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C++ API reference documentation.

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namespace pubsub = ::google::cloud::pubsub;
[](pubsub::SubscriptionAdminClient client, std::string const& project_id,
   std::string const& topic_id, std::string const& subscription_id) {
  auto sub = client.CreateSubscription(
      pubsub::Topic(project_id, std::move(topic_id)),
      pubsub::Subscription(project_id, std::move(subscription_id)));
  if (sub.status().code() == google::cloud::StatusCode::kAlreadyExists) {
    std::cout << "The subscription already exists\n";
    return;
  }
  if (!sub) throw std::move(sub).status();

  std::cout << "The subscription was successfully created: "
            << sub->DebugString() << "\n";
}

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C# API reference documentation.

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using Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1;
using Grpc.Core;

public class CreateSubscriptionSample
{
    public Subscription CreateSubscription(string projectId, string topicId, string subscriptionId)
    {
        SubscriberServiceApiClient subscriber = SubscriberServiceApiClient.Create();
        TopicName topicName = TopicName.FromProjectTopic(projectId, topicId);

        SubscriptionName subscriptionName = SubscriptionName.FromProjectSubscription(projectId, subscriptionId);
        Subscription subscription = null;

        try
        {
            subscription = subscriber.CreateSubscription(subscriptionName, topicName, pushConfig: null, ackDeadlineSeconds: 60);
        }
        catch (RpcException e) when (e.Status.StatusCode == StatusCode.AlreadyExists)
        {
            // Already exists.  That's fine.
        }
        return subscription;
    }
}

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Go API reference documentation.

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import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"time"

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

func create(w io.Writer, projectID, subID string, topic *pubsub.Topic) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// subID := "my-sub"
	// topic of type https://godoc.org/cloud.google.com/go/pubsub#Topic
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := pubsub.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("pubsub.NewClient: %v", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	sub, err := client.CreateSubscription(ctx, subID, pubsub.SubscriptionConfig{
		Topic:       topic,
		AckDeadline: 20 * time.Second,
	})
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("CreateSubscription: %v", err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Created subscription: %v\n", sub)
	return nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Java API reference documentation.

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import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionAdminClient;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.PushConfig;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.Subscription;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionName;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.TopicName;
import java.io.IOException;

public class CreatePullSubscriptionExample {
  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    String subscriptionId = "your-subscription-id";
    String topicId = "your-topic-id";

    createPullSubscriptionExample(projectId, subscriptionId, topicId);
  }

  public static void createPullSubscriptionExample(
      String projectId, String subscriptionId, String topicId) throws IOException {
    try (SubscriptionAdminClient subscriptionAdminClient = SubscriptionAdminClient.create()) {
      TopicName topicName = TopicName.of(projectId, topicId);
      SubscriptionName subscriptionName = SubscriptionName.of(projectId, subscriptionId);
      // Create a pull subscription with default acknowledgement deadline of 10 seconds.
      // Messages not successfully acknowledged within 10 seconds will get resent by the server.
      Subscription subscription =
          subscriptionAdminClient.createSubscription(
              subscriptionName, topicName, PushConfig.getDefaultInstance(), 10);
      System.out.println("Created pull subscription: " + subscription.getName());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Node.js API reference documentation.

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/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
 */
// const topicNameOrId = 'YOUR_TOPIC_NAME_OR_ID';
// const subscriptionNameOrId = 'YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_NAME_OR_ID';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {PubSub} = require('@google-cloud/pubsub');

// Creates a client; cache this for further use
const pubSubClient = new PubSub();

async function createSubscription(topicNameOrId, subscriptionNameOrId) {
  // Creates a new subscription
  await pubSubClient
    .topic(topicNameOrId)
    .createSubscription(subscriptionNameOrId);
  console.log(`Subscription ${subscriptionNameOrId} created.`);
}

PHP

Before trying this sample, follow the PHP setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub PHP API reference documentation.

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use Google\Cloud\PubSub\PubSubClient;

/**
 * Creates a Pub/Sub subscription.
 *
 * @param string $projectId  The Google project ID.
 * @param string $topicName  The Pub/Sub topic name.
 * @param string $subscriptionName  The Pub/Sub subscription name.
 */
function create_subscription($projectId, $topicName, $subscriptionName)
{
    $pubsub = new PubSubClient([
        'projectId' => $projectId,
    ]);
    $topic = $pubsub->topic($topicName);
    $subscription = $topic->subscription($subscriptionName);
    $subscription->create();

    printf('Subscription created: %s' . PHP_EOL, $subscription->name());
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Python API reference documentation.

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from google.cloud import pubsub_v1

# TODO(developer)
# project_id = "your-project-id"
# topic_id = "your-topic-id"
# subscription_id = "your-subscription-id"

publisher = pubsub_v1.PublisherClient()
subscriber = pubsub_v1.SubscriberClient()
topic_path = publisher.topic_path(project_id, topic_id)
subscription_path = subscriber.subscription_path(project_id, subscription_id)

# Wrap the subscriber in a 'with' block to automatically call close() to
# close the underlying gRPC channel when done.
with subscriber:
    subscription = subscriber.create_subscription(
        request={"name": subscription_path, "topic": topic_path}
    )

print(f"Subscription created: {subscription}")

Ruby

Before trying this sample, follow the Ruby setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Ruby API reference documentation.

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# topic_id        = "your-topic-id"
# subscription_id = "your-subscription-id"
require "google/cloud/pubsub"

pubsub = Google::Cloud::Pubsub.new

topic        = pubsub.topic topic_id
subscription = topic.subscribe subscription_id

puts "Pull subscription #{subscription_id} created."

Push subscription

The following samples demonstrate how to create a subscription with push delivery, using the provided default settings. By default, subscriptions use pull delivery, unless you explicitly set a push configuration, as shown in the following examples.

Console

To create a push subscription, complete the following steps:

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Subscriptions page.

   Go to Subscriptions

2. Click Create subscription.
3. For the Subscription ID field, enter a name.

   For information on how to name a subscription, see Guidelines to name a topic or a subscription.

4. Choose or create a topic from the drop-down menu. The subscription receives messages from the topic.
5. Select the Delivery type as Push.
6. Specify an endpoint URL.
7. Retain all other default values.
8. Click Create.

You can also create a subscription from the Topics section. This shortcut is useful for associating topics with subscriptions.

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Topics page.

   Go to Topics

2. Clicknext to the topic on which to create a subscription.
3. From the context menu, select Create subscription.
4. Enter the Subscription ID.

   For information on how to name a subscription, see Guidelines to name a topic or a subscription.

5. Select the Delivery type as Push.
6. Specify an endpoint URL.
7. Retain all other default values.
8. Click Create.

gcloud

1. In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

   Activate Cloud Shell

   At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

2. To create a pull subscription, run the gcloud pubsub subscriptions create command.

   gcloud pubsub subscriptions create SUBSCRIPTION_ID \
       --topic=TOPIC_ID \
       --push-endpoint=PUSH_ENDPOINT

   Replace the following:

   • SUBSCRIPTION_ID: The name or ID of your new push subscription.
   • TOPIC_ID: The name or ID of your topic.
   • PUSH_ENDPOINT: the URL to use as the endpoint for this subscription. For example, https://myproject.appspot.com/myhandler.

REST

To create a push subscription, use the projects.subscriptions.create method:

Request:

The request must be authenticated with an access token in the Authorization header. To obtain an access token for the current Application Default Credentials: gcloud auth application-default print-access-token.

PUT https://pubsub.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_ID
Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN

Request body:

{
  "topic": "projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/TOPIC_ID",
  // Only needed if you are using push delivery
  "pushConfig": {
    "pushEndpoint": "PUSH_ENDPOINT"
  }
}

Where:

PROJECT_ID is your project ID.

SUBSCRIPTION_ID is your subscription ID.

TOPIC_ID is your topic ID.

PUSH_ENDPOINT is a URL to use as the endpoint. For example, https://myproject.appspot.com/myhandler.

Response:

{
  "name": "projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_ID",
  "topic": "projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/TOPIC_ID",
  "pushConfig": {
    "pushEndpoint": "https://PROJECT_ID.appspot.com/myhandler",
    "attributes": {
      "x-goog-version": "v1"
    }
  },
  "ackDeadlineSeconds": 10,
  "messageRetentionDuration": "604800s",
  "expirationPolicy": {
    "ttl": "2678400s"
  }
}

C++

Before trying this sample, follow the C++ setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C++ API reference documentation.

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namespace pubsub = ::google::cloud::pubsub;
[](pubsub::SubscriptionAdminClient client, std::string const& project_id,
   std::string const& topic_id, std::string const& subscription_id,
   std::string const& endpoint) {
  auto sub = client.CreateSubscription(
      pubsub::Topic(project_id, std::move(topic_id)),
      pubsub::Subscription(project_id, std::move(subscription_id)),
      pubsub::SubscriptionBuilder{}.set_push_config(
          pubsub::PushConfigBuilder{}.set_push_endpoint(endpoint)));
  if (sub.status().code() == google::cloud::StatusCode::kAlreadyExists) {
    std::cout << "The subscription already exists\n";
    return;
  }
  if (!sub) throw std::move(sub).status();

  std::cout << "The subscription was successfully created: "
            << sub->DebugString() << "\n";
}

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C# API reference documentation.

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using Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1;

public class CreatePushSubscriptionSample
{
    public Subscription CreatePushSubscription(string projectId, string topicId, string subscriptionId, string pushEndpoint)
    {
        SubscriberServiceApiClient subscriber = SubscriberServiceApiClient.Create();
        TopicName topicName = TopicName.FromProjectTopic(projectId, topicId);
        SubscriptionName subscriptionName = SubscriptionName.FromProjectSubscription(projectId, subscriptionId);

        PushConfig pushConfig = new PushConfig { PushEndpoint = pushEndpoint };

        // The approximate amount of time in seconds (on a best-effort basis) Pub/Sub waits for the
        // subscriber to acknowledge receipt before resending the message.
        var ackDeadlineSeconds = 60;
        var subscription = subscriber.CreateSubscription(subscriptionName, topicName, pushConfig, ackDeadlineSeconds);
        return subscription;
    }
}

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Go API reference documentation.

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import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"time"

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

func createWithEndpoint(w io.Writer, projectID, subID string, topic *pubsub.Topic, endpoint string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// subID := "my-sub"
	// topic of type https://godoc.org/cloud.google.com/go/pubsub#Topic
	// endpoint := "https://my-test-project.appspot.com/push"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := pubsub.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("pubsub.NewClient: %v", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	sub, err := client.CreateSubscription(ctx, subID, pubsub.SubscriptionConfig{
		Topic:       topic,
		AckDeadline: 10 * time.Second,
		PushConfig:  pubsub.PushConfig{Endpoint: endpoint},
	})
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("CreateSubscription: %v", err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Created subscription: %v\n", sub)
	return nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Java API reference documentation.

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import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionAdminClient;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.PushConfig;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.Subscription;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionName;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.TopicName;
import java.io.IOException;

public class CreatePushSubscriptionExample {
  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    String subscriptionId = "your-subscription-id";
    String topicId = "your-topic-id";
    String pushEndpoint = "https://my-test-project.appspot.com/push";

    createPushSubscriptionExample(projectId, subscriptionId, topicId, pushEndpoint);
  }

  public static void createPushSubscriptionExample(
      String projectId, String subscriptionId, String topicId, String pushEndpoint)
      throws IOException {
    try (SubscriptionAdminClient subscriptionAdminClient = SubscriptionAdminClient.create()) {
      TopicName topicName = TopicName.of(projectId, topicId);
      SubscriptionName subscriptionName = SubscriptionName.of(projectId, subscriptionId);
      PushConfig pushConfig = PushConfig.newBuilder().setPushEndpoint(pushEndpoint).build();

      // Create a push subscription with default acknowledgement deadline of 10 seconds.
      // Messages not successfully acknowledged within 10 seconds will get resent by the server.
      Subscription subscription =
          subscriptionAdminClient.createSubscription(subscriptionName, topicName, pushConfig, 10);
      System.out.println("Created push subscription: " + subscription.getName());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Node.js API reference documentation.

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/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
 */
// const topicNameOrId = 'YOUR_TOPIC_NAME_OR_ID';
// const subscriptionNameOrId = 'YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_NAME_OR_ID';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {PubSub} = require('@google-cloud/pubsub');

// Creates a client; cache this for further use
const pubSubClient = new PubSub();

async function createPushSubscription(topicNameOrId, subscriptionNameOrId) {
  const options = {
    pushConfig: {
      // Set to an HTTPS endpoint of your choice. If necessary, register
      // (authorize) the domain on which the server is hosted.
      pushEndpoint: `https://${pubSubClient.projectId}.appspot.com/push`,
    },
  };

  await pubSubClient
    .topic(topicNameOrId)
    .createSubscription(subscriptionNameOrId, options);
  console.log(`Subscription ${subscriptionNameOrId} created.`);
}

PHP

Before trying this sample, follow the PHP setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub PHP API reference documentation.

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use Google\Cloud\PubSub\PubSubClient;

/**
 * Creates a Pub/Sub push subscription.
 *
 * @param string $projectId  The Google project ID.
 * @param string $topicName  The Pub/Sub topic name.
 * @param string $subscriptionName  The Pub/Sub subscription name.
 * @param string $endpoint  The endpoint for the push subscription.
 */
function create_push_subscription($projectId, $topicName, $subscriptionName, $endpoint)
{
    $pubsub = new PubSubClient([
        'projectId' => $projectId,
    ]);
    $topic = $pubsub->topic($topicName);
    $subscription = $topic->subscription($subscriptionName);
    $subscription->create([
        'pushConfig' => ['pushEndpoint' => $endpoint]
    ]);

    printf('Subscription created: %s' . PHP_EOL, $subscription->name());
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Python API reference documentation.

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from google.cloud import pubsub_v1

# TODO(developer)
# project_id = "your-project-id"
# topic_id = "your-topic-id"
# subscription_id = "your-subscription-id"
# endpoint = "https://my-test-project.appspot.com/push"

publisher = pubsub_v1.PublisherClient()
subscriber = pubsub_v1.SubscriberClient()
topic_path = publisher.topic_path(project_id, topic_id)
subscription_path = subscriber.subscription_path(project_id, subscription_id)

push_config = pubsub_v1.types.PushConfig(push_endpoint=endpoint)

# Wrap the subscriber in a 'with' block to automatically call close() to
# close the underlying gRPC channel when done.
with subscriber:
    subscription = subscriber.create_subscription(
        request={
            "name": subscription_path,
            "topic": topic_path,
            "push_config": push_config,
        }
    )

print(f"Push subscription created: {subscription}.")
print(f"Endpoint for subscription is: {endpoint}")

Ruby

Before trying this sample, follow the Ruby setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Ruby API reference documentation.

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# topic_id          = "your-topic-id"
# subscription_id   = "your-subscription-id"
# endpoint          = "https://your-test-project.appspot.com/push"
require "google/cloud/pubsub"

pubsub = Google::Cloud::Pubsub.new

topic        = pubsub.topic topic_id
subscription = topic.subscribe subscription_id,
                               endpoint: endpoint

puts "Push subscription #{subscription_id} created."

BigQuery subscription

The following samples demonstrate how to create a subscription with BigQuery delivery. You first assign the proper roles to the Google-managed Pub/Sub service account (also known as a service agent) and then create the BigQuery subscription.

Assign BigQuery roles to the Pub/Sub service account

Some Google Cloud services have Google Cloud-managed service accounts that lets the services access your resources. These service accounts are known as service agents. Pub/Sub creates and maintains a service account for each project in the format [e-mail].

To create a BigQuery subscription, the Pub/Sub service account must have permission to write to the specific BigQuery table and to read the table metadata.

Grant the BigQuery Data Editor (roles/bigquery.dataEditor) role and the BigQuery Metadata Viewer (roles/bigquery.metadataViewer) role to the Pub/Sub service account.

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the IAM page.

   Go to IAM

2. Click Grant access.

3. In the Add Principals section, enter the name of your Pub/Sub service account. The format of the service account is [e-mail]. For example, for a project with project-number=112233445566, the service account is of the format [e-mail].

4. In the Assign Roles section, click Add another role.

5. In the Select a role drop-down, enter BigQuery, and select the BigQuery Data Editor role.

6. Click Add another role again.

7. In the Select a role drop-down, enter BigQuery, and select the BigQuery Metadata Viewer role.

8. Click Save.

For more information about BigQuery IAM, see BigQuery roles and permissions.

Create a BigQuery subscription

Console

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Subscriptions page.

   Go to Subscriptions

2. Click Create subscription.
3. For the Subscription ID field, enter a name.

   For information on how to name a subscription, see Guidelines to name a topic or a subscription.

4. Choose or create a topic from the drop-down menu. The subscription receives messages from the topic.
5. Select Delivery type as Write to BigQuery.
6. Select the project for the BigQuery table.
7. Select an existing dataset or create a new one.

   For information on how to create a dataset, see Creating datasets.

8. Select an existing table or create a new one.

   For information on how to create a table, see Creating tables.

9. Click Create.

You can also create a subscription from the Topics page. This shortcut is useful for associating topics with subscriptions.

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Topics page.

   Go to Topics

2. Click next to the topic for which you want to create a subscription.
3. From the context menu, select Create subscription.
4. Select Delivery type as Write to BigQuery.
5. Select the project for the BigQuery table.
6. Select an existing dataset or create a new one.

   For information on how to create a dataset, see Creating datasets.

7. Select an existing table or create a new one.

   For information on how to create a dataset, see Creating tables.

8. Click Create.

gcloud

1. In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

   Activate Cloud Shell

   At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

2. To create a Pub/Sub subscription, use the gcloud pubsub subscriptions create command:

   gcloud pubsub subscriptions create SUBSCRIPTION_ID \
       --topic=TOPIC_ID \
       --bigquery-table=PROJECT_ID:DATASET_ID.TABLE_ID

   Replace the following:

   • SUBSCRIPTION_ID: Specifies the ID of the subscription.
   • TOPIC_ID: Specifies the ID of the topic. The topic requires a schema.
   • PROJECT_ID: Specifies the ID of the project.
   • DATASET_ID: Specifies the ID of an existing dataset. To create a dataset, see Create datasets.
   • TABLE_ID: Specifies the ID of an existing table. The table requires a data field if your topic doesn't have a schema. To create a table, see Create an empty table with a schema definition.

C++

Before trying this sample, follow the C++ setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C++ API reference documentation.

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namespace pubsub = ::google::cloud::pubsub;
[](pubsub::SubscriptionAdminClient client, std::string const& project_id,
   std::string const& topic_id, std::string const& subscription_id,
   std::string const& table_id) {
  auto sub = client.CreateSubscription(
      pubsub::Topic(project_id, std::move(topic_id)),
      pubsub::Subscription(project_id, std::move(subscription_id)),
      pubsub::SubscriptionBuilder{}.set_bigquery_config(
          pubsub::BigQueryConfigBuilder{}.set_table(table_id)));
  if (sub.status().code() == google::cloud::StatusCode::kAlreadyExists) {
    std::cout << "The subscription already exists\n";
    return;
  }
  if (!sub) throw std::move(sub).status();

  std::cout << "The subscription was successfully created: "
            << sub->DebugString() << "\n";
}

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C# API reference documentation.

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using Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1;

public class CreateBigQuerySubscriptionSample
{
    public Subscription CreateBigQuerySubscription(string projectId, string topicId, string subscriptionId, string bigqueryTableId)
    {
        SubscriberServiceApiClient subscriber = SubscriberServiceApiClient.Create();
        TopicName topicName = TopicName.FromProjectTopic(projectId, topicId);
        SubscriptionName subscriptionName = SubscriptionName.FromProjectSubscription(projectId, subscriptionId);

        BigQueryConfig bigqueryConfig = new BigQueryConfig { Table = bigqueryTableId };

        var subscriptionRequest = new Subscription
        {
            SubscriptionName = subscriptionName,
            TopicAsTopicName = topicName,
            BigqueryConfig = new BigQueryConfig
            {
              Table = bigqueryTableId
            }
        };
        var subscription = subscriber.CreateSubscription(subscriptionRequest);
        return subscription;
    }
}

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Go API reference documentation.

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import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

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

// createBigQuerySubscription creates a Pub/Sub subscription that exports messages to BigQuery.
func createBigQuerySubscription(w io.Writer, projectID, subID string, topic *pubsub.Topic, table string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// subID := "my-sub"
	// topic of type https://godoc.org/cloud.google.com/go/pubsub#Topic
	// table := "my-project-id.dataset_id.table_id"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := pubsub.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("pubsub.NewClient: %v", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	sub, err := client.CreateSubscription(ctx, subID, pubsub.SubscriptionConfig{
		Topic: topic,
		BigQueryConfig: pubsub.BigQueryConfig{
			Table:         table,
			WriteMetadata: true,
		},
	})
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("client.CreateSubscription: %v", err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Created BigQuery subscription: %v\n", sub)

	return nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Java API reference documentation.

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import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionAdminClient;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.BigQueryConfig;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.ProjectSubscriptionName;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.ProjectTopicName;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.Subscription;
import java.io.IOException;

public class CreateBigQuerySubscriptionExample {
  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    String topicId = "your-topic-id";
    String subscriptionId = "your-subscription-id";
    String bigqueryTableId = "your-project.your-dataset.your-table";

    createBigQuerySubscription(projectId, topicId, subscriptionId, bigqueryTableId);
  }

  public static void createBigQuerySubscription(
      String projectId, String topicId, String subscriptionId, String bigqueryTableId)
      throws IOException {
    try (SubscriptionAdminClient subscriptionAdminClient = SubscriptionAdminClient.create()) {

      ProjectTopicName topicName = ProjectTopicName.of(projectId, topicId);
      ProjectSubscriptionName subscriptionName =
          ProjectSubscriptionName.of(projectId, subscriptionId);

      BigQueryConfig bigqueryConfig =
          BigQueryConfig.newBuilder().setTable(bigqueryTableId).setWriteMetadata(true).build();

      Subscription subscription =
          subscriptionAdminClient.createSubscription(
              Subscription.newBuilder()
                  .setName(subscriptionName.toString())
                  .setTopic(topicName.toString())
                  .setBigqueryConfig(bigqueryConfig)
                  .build());

      System.out.println("Created a BigQuery subscription: " + subscription.getAllFields());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Node.js API reference documentation.

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/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
 */
// const topicNameOrId = 'YOUR_TOPIC_NAME_OR_ID';
// const subscriptionNameOrId = 'YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_NAME_OR_ID';
// const bigqueryTableId = 'YOUR_TABLE_ID';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {PubSub} = require('@google-cloud/pubsub');

// Creates a client; cache this for further use
const pubSubClient = new PubSub();

async function createBigQuerySubscription(
  topicNameOrId,
  subscriptionNameOrId,
  bigqueryTableId
) {
  const options = {
    bigqueryConfig: {
      table: bigqueryTableId,
      writeMetadata: true,
    },
  };

  await pubSubClient
    .topic(topicNameOrId)
    .createSubscription(subscriptionNameOrId, options);

  console.log(`Subscription ${subscriptionNameOrId} created.`);
}

PHP

Before trying this sample, follow the PHP setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub PHP API reference documentation.

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use Google\Cloud\PubSub\PubSubClient;
use Google\Cloud\PubSub\V1\BigQueryConfig;

/**
 * Creates a Pub/Sub BigQuery subscription.
 *
 * @param string $projectId  The Google project ID.
 * @param string $topicName  The Pub/Sub topic name.
 * @param string $subscriptionName  The Pub/Sub subscription name.
 * @param string $tableName  The BigQuery table to which to write.
 */
function create_bigquery_subscription($projectId, $topicName, $subscriptionName, $table)
{
    $pubsub = new PubSubClient([
        'projectId' => $projectId,
    ]);
    $topic = $pubsub->topic($topicName);
    $subscription = $topic->subscription($subscriptionName);
    $config = new BigQueryConfig(['table' => $table]);
    $subscription->create([
        'bigqueryConfig' => $config
    ]);

    printf('Subscription created: %s' . PHP_EOL, $subscription->name());
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Python API reference documentation.

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from google.cloud import pubsub_v1

# TODO(developer)
# project_id = "your-project-id"
# topic_id = "your-topic-id"
# subscription_id = "your-subscription-id"
# bigquery_table_id = "your-project.your-dataset.your-table"

publisher = pubsub_v1.PublisherClient()
subscriber = pubsub_v1.SubscriberClient()
topic_path = publisher.topic_path(project_id, topic_id)
subscription_path = subscriber.subscription_path(project_id, subscription_id)

bigquery_config = pubsub_v1.types.BigQueryConfig(
    table=bigquery_table_id, write_metadata=True
)

# Wrap the subscriber in a 'with' block to automatically call close() to
# close the underlying gRPC channel when done.
with subscriber:
    subscription = subscriber.create_subscription(
        request={
            "name": subscription_path,
            "topic": topic_path,
            "bigquery_config": bigquery_config,
        }
    )

print(f"BigQuery subscription created: {subscription}.")
print(f"Table for subscription is: {bigquery_table_id}")

Ruby

Before trying this sample, follow the Ruby setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Ruby API reference documentation.

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require "google/cloud/pubsub"

##
# Shows how to create a BigQuery subscription where messages published
# to a topic populates a BigQuery table.
#
# @param project_id [String]
# Your Google Cloud project (e.g. "my-project")
# @param topic_id [String]
# Your topic name (e.g. "my-secret")
# @param subscription_id [String]
# ID for new subscription to be created (e.g. "my-subscription")
# @param bigquery_table_id [String]
# ID of bigquery table (e.g "my-project:dataset-id.table-id")
#
def pubsub_create_bigquery_subscription project_id:, topic_id:, subscription_id:, bigquery_table_id:
  pubsub = Google::Cloud::Pubsub.new project_id: project_id
  topic = pubsub.topic topic_id
  subscription = topic.subscribe subscription_id,
                                 bigquery_config: {
                                   table: bigquery_table_id,
                                   write_metadata: true
                                 }
  puts "BigQuery subscription created: #{subscription_id}."
  puts "Table for subscription is: #{bigquery_table_id}"
end

Modify delivery methods

You can switch between different subscription types.

Console

To modify a subscription, complete the following steps.

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Subscriptions page.

   Go to Subscriptions

2. Click next to the subscription to update.
3. In the Delivery type, choose a delivery option.
4. Fill in other subscription properties as required.
5. Click Update.

gcloud

1. In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

   Activate Cloud Shell

   At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

2. To modify the push endpoint URL, run the gcloud pubsub subscriptions modify-push-config command:

   gcloud pubsub subscriptions modify-push-config SUBSCRIPTION_ID
       --push-endpoint=PUSH_ENDPOINT

   If the subscription is already using pull delivery, setting the push endpoint switches the delivery method to push delivery.

   You can switch from push to pull delivery by changing the push endpoint to an empty string.

REST

To modify the push configurations of a subscription, use the projects.subscriptions.modifyPushConfig method:

Request:

The request must be authenticated with an access token in the Authorization header. To obtain an access token for the current Application Default Credentials: gcloud auth application-default print-access-token.

POST https://pubsub.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_ID:modifyPushConfig
Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN
    

Request body:

{
  "pushConfig": {
    "pushEndpoint": "PUSH_ENDPOINT"
  }
}

Where:

PROJECT_ID is your project ID.

SUBSCRIPTION_ID is your subscription ID.

PUSH_ENDPOINT is a modified URL to you want to apply as your new push endpoint. For example, https://myproject.appspot.com/myhandler.

Response:

If the request is successful, the response is an empty JSON object.

C++

Before trying this sample, follow the C++ setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C++ API reference documentation.

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namespace pubsub = ::google::cloud::pubsub;
[](pubsub::SubscriptionAdminClient client, std::string const& project_id,
   std::string const& subscription_id, std::string const& endpoint) {
  auto status = client.ModifyPushSubscription(
      pubsub::Subscription(project_id, std::move(subscription_id)),
      pubsub::PushConfigBuilder{}.set_push_endpoint(endpoint));
  if (!status.ok()) throw std::runtime_error(status.message());

  std::cout << "The subscription push configuration was successfully"
            << " modified\n";
}

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C# API reference documentation.

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using Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1;

public class UpdatePushConfigurationSample
{
    public void UpdatePushConfiguration(string projectId, string subscriptionId, string pushEndpoint)
    {
        SubscriberServiceApiClient subscriber = SubscriberServiceApiClient.Create();
        SubscriptionName subscriptionName = SubscriptionName.FromProjectSubscription(projectId, subscriptionId);

        PushConfig pushConfig = new PushConfig { PushEndpoint = pushEndpoint };

        subscriber.ModifyPushConfig(subscriptionName, pushConfig);
    }
}

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Go API reference documentation.

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import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

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

func updateEndpoint(w io.Writer, projectID, subID string, endpoint string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// subID := "my-sub"
	// endpoint := "https://my-test-project.appspot.com/push"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := pubsub.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("pubsub.NewClient: %v", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	subConfig, err := client.Subscription(subID).Update(ctx, pubsub.SubscriptionConfigToUpdate{
		PushConfig: &pubsub.PushConfig{Endpoint: endpoint},
	})
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Update: %v", err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Updated subscription config: %v\n", subConfig)
	return nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Java API reference documentation.

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import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionAdminClient;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.PushConfig;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.Subscription;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionName;
import java.io.IOException;

public class UpdatePushConfigurationExample {
  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    String subscriptionId = "your-subscription-id";
    String pushEndpoint = "https://my-test-project.appspot.com/push";

    updatePushConfigurationExample(projectId, subscriptionId, pushEndpoint);
  }

  public static void updatePushConfigurationExample(
      String projectId, String subscriptionId, String pushEndpoint) throws IOException {
    try (SubscriptionAdminClient subscriptionAdminClient = SubscriptionAdminClient.create()) {
      SubscriptionName subscriptionName = SubscriptionName.of(projectId, subscriptionId);
      PushConfig pushConfig = PushConfig.newBuilder().setPushEndpoint(pushEndpoint).build();
      subscriptionAdminClient.modifyPushConfig(subscriptionName, pushConfig);
      Subscription subscription = subscriptionAdminClient.getSubscription(subscriptionName);
      System.out.println(
          "Updated push endpoint to: " + subscription.getPushConfig().getPushEndpoint());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Node.js API reference documentation.

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/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
 */
// const topicNameOrId = 'YOUR_TOPIC_NAME_OR_ID';
// const subscriptionNameOrId = 'YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_NAME_OR_ID';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {PubSub} = require('@google-cloud/pubsub');

// Creates a client; cache this for further use
const pubSubClient = new PubSub();

async function modifyPushConfig(topicNameOrId, subscriptionNameOrId) {
  const options = {
    // Set to an HTTPS endpoint of your choice. If necessary, register
    // (authorize) the domain on which the server is hosted.
    pushEndpoint: `https://${pubSubClient.projectId}.appspot.com/push`,
  };

  await pubSubClient
    .topic(topicNameOrId)
    .subscription(subscriptionNameOrId)
    .modifyPushConfig(options);
  console.log(`Modified push config for subscription ${subscriptionNameOrId}.`);
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Python API reference documentation.

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from google.cloud import pubsub_v1

# TODO(developer)
# project_id = "your-project-id"
# topic_id = "your-topic-id"
# subscription_id = "your-subscription-id"
# endpoint = "https://my-test-project.appspot.com/push"

subscriber = pubsub_v1.SubscriberClient()
subscription_path = subscriber.subscription_path(project_id, subscription_id)

push_config = pubsub_v1.types.PushConfig(push_endpoint=endpoint)

subscription = pubsub_v1.types.Subscription(
    name=subscription_path, topic=topic_id, push_config=push_config
)

update_mask = {"paths": {"push_config"}}

# Wrap the subscriber in a 'with' block to automatically call close() to
# close the underlying gRPC channel when done.
with subscriber:
    result = subscriber.update_subscription(
        request={"subscription": subscription, "update_mask": update_mask}
    )

print(f"Subscription updated: {subscription_path}")
print(f"New endpoint for subscription is: {result.push_config}.")

Ruby

Before trying this sample, follow the Ruby setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Ruby API reference documentation.

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# subscription_id   = "your-subscription-id"
# new_endpoint      = "Endpoint where your app receives messages""
require "google/cloud/pubsub"

pubsub = Google::Cloud::Pubsub.new

subscription          = pubsub.subscription subscription_id
subscription.endpoint = new_endpoint

puts "Push endpoint updated."

Note: Switching from a push to a pull subscription takes several minutes to complete. In this interval, pull requests might generate errors and push requests might continue.

List subscriptions

You can list the subscriptions in a Google Cloud project with the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, client library, or Pub/Sub API.

Console

To list the subscriptions in a project, go to the Subscriptions page.

Go to Subscriptions

gcloud

1. In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

   Activate Cloud Shell

   At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

2. To list the subscriptions in a Google Cloud project, run the gcloud pubsub subscriptions list command:

   gcloud pubsub subscriptions list [--project=PROJECT_ID]

REST

To list subscriptions in a project, use the projects.subscriptions.list method:

Request:

The request must be authenticated with an access token in the Authorization header. To obtain an access token for the current Application Default Credentials: gcloud auth application-default print-access-token.

GET https://pubsub.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions
Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN
    

Where:

PROJECT_ID is your project ID.

Response:

{
  "subscriptions": [
    {
      "name": "projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/mysubscription1",
      "topic": "projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/TOPIC_ID",
      "pushConfig": {},
      "ackDeadlineSeconds": 10,
      "retainAckedMessages": true,
      "messageRetentionDuration": "604800s",
      "expirationPolicy": {}
    },
    {
      "name": "projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/mysubscription2",
      "topic": "projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/TOPIC_ID",
      "pushConfig": {
        "pushEndpoint": "https://PROJECT_ID.appspot.com/myhandler",
        "attributes": {
          "x-goog-version": "v1"
        }
      },
      "ackDeadlineSeconds": 10,
      "retainAckedMessages": true,
      "messageRetentionDuration": "604800s",
      "expirationPolicy": {}
    }
  ]
}

C++

Before trying this sample, follow the C++ setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C++ API reference documentation.

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namespace pubsub = ::google::cloud::pubsub;
[](pubsub::SubscriptionAdminClient client, std::string const& project_id) {
  int count = 0;
  for (auto& subscription : client.ListSubscriptions(project_id)) {
    if (!subscription) throw std::move(subscription).status();
    std::cout << "Subscription Name: " << subscription->name() << "\n";
    ++count;
  }
  if (count == 0) {
    std::cout << "No subscriptions found in project " << project_id << "\n";
  }
}

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C# API reference documentation.

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using Google.Api.Gax.ResourceNames;
using Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class ListSubscriptionsSample
{
    public IEnumerable<Subscription> ListSubscriptions(string projectId)
    {
        SubscriberServiceApiClient subscriber = SubscriberServiceApiClient.Create();
        ProjectName projectName = ProjectName.FromProject(projectId);
        var subscriptions = subscriber.ListSubscriptions(projectName);
        return subscriptions;
    }
}

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Go API reference documentation.

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import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	"cloud.google.com/go/pubsub"
	"google.golang.org/api/iterator"
)

func list(projectID string) ([]*pubsub.Subscription, error) {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := pubsub.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("pubsub.NewClient: %v", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	var subs []*pubsub.Subscription
	it := client.Subscriptions(ctx)
	for {
		s, err := it.Next()
		if err == iterator.Done {
			break
		}
		if err != nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Next: %v", err)
		}
		subs = append(subs, s)
	}
	return subs, nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Java API reference documentation.

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import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionAdminClient;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.ProjectName;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.Subscription;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ListSubscriptionsInProjectExample {
  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";

    listSubscriptionInProjectExample(projectId);
  }

  public static void listSubscriptionInProjectExample(String projectId) throws IOException {
    try (SubscriptionAdminClient subscriptionAdminClient = SubscriptionAdminClient.create()) {
      ProjectName projectName = ProjectName.of(projectId);
      for (Subscription subscription :
          subscriptionAdminClient.listSubscriptions(projectName).iterateAll()) {
        System.out.println(subscription.getName());
      }
      System.out.println("Listed all the subscriptions in the project.");
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Node.js API reference documentation.

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// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {PubSub} = require('@google-cloud/pubsub');

// Creates a client; cache this for further use
const pubSubClient = new PubSub();

async function listSubscriptions() {
  // Lists all subscriptions in the current project
  const [subscriptions] = await pubSubClient.getSubscriptions();
  console.log('Subscriptions:');
  subscriptions.forEach(subscription => console.log(subscription.name));
}

PHP

Before trying this sample, follow the PHP setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub PHP API reference documentation.

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use Google\Cloud\PubSub\PubSubClient;

/**
 * Lists all Pub/Sub subscriptions.
 *
 * @param string $projectId  The Google project ID.
 */
function list_subscriptions($projectId)
{
    $pubsub = new PubSubClient([
        'projectId' => $projectId,
    ]);
    foreach ($pubsub->subscriptions() as $subscription) {
        printf('Subscription: %s' . PHP_EOL, $subscription->name());
    }
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Python API reference documentation.

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from google.cloud import pubsub_v1

# TODO(developer)
# project_id = "your-project-id"

subscriber = pubsub_v1.SubscriberClient()
project_path = f"projects/{project_id}"

# Wrap the subscriber in a 'with' block to automatically call close() to
# close the underlying gRPC channel when done.
with subscriber:
    for subscription in subscriber.list_subscriptions(
        request={"project": project_path}
    ):
        print(subscription.name)

Ruby

Before trying this sample, follow the Ruby setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Ruby API reference documentation.

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require "google/cloud/pubsub"

pubsub = Google::Cloud::Pubsub.new

subscriptions = pubsub.list_subscriptions

puts "Subscriptions:"
subscriptions.each do |subscription|
  puts subscription.name
end

You can list the subscriptions to a topic with the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, or Pub/Sub API.

Console

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Topics page.

   Go to Topics

2. Select a topic ID to open the Topic details page. The Subscriptions section of the page includes of list of subscriptions to the topic.

gcloud

1. In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

   Activate Cloud Shell

   At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

2. To list the subscriptions in a Google Cloud project, run the gcloud pubsub topics list-subscriptions command:

   gcloud pubsub topics list-subscriptions TOPIC_ID

REST

To list subscriptions in a topic, use the projects.subscriptions.list method:

Request:

The request must be authenticated with an access token in the Authorization header. To obtain an access token for the current Application Default Credentials: gcloud auth application-default print-access-token.

GET https://pubsub.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/TOPIC_ID/subscriptions
Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN
    

Where:

PROJECT_ID is your project ID.

TOPIC_ID is your topic ID.

Response:

{
  "subscriptions": [
    "projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions/mysubscription1",
    "projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions/mysubscription2"
  ]
}

C++

Before trying this sample, follow the C++ setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C++ API reference documentation.

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namespace pubsub = ::google::cloud::pubsub;
[](pubsub::TopicAdminClient client, std::string project_id,
   std::string topic_id) {
  auto const topic =
      pubsub::Topic(std::move(project_id), std::move(topic_id));
  std::cout << "Subscription list for topic " << topic << ":\n";
  for (auto& name : client.ListTopicSubscriptions(topic)) {
    if (!name) throw std::move(name).status();
    std::cout << "  " << *name << "\n";
  }
}

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C# API reference documentation.

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using Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class ListSubscriptionsInTopicSample
{
    public IEnumerable<string> ListSubscriptionsInTopic(string projectId, string topicId)
    {
        PublisherServiceApiClient publisher = PublisherServiceApiClient.Create();
        TopicName topicName = TopicName.FromProjectTopic(projectId, topicId);
        IEnumerable<string> subscriptions = publisher.ListTopicSubscriptions(topicName);
        return subscriptions;
    }
}

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Go API reference documentation.

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import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	"cloud.google.com/go/pubsub"
	"google.golang.org/api/iterator"
)

func listSubscriptions(projectID, topicID string) ([]*pubsub.Subscription, error) {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// topicName := "projects/sample-248520/topics/ocr-go-test-topic"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := pubsub.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("pubsub.NewClient: %v", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	var subs []*pubsub.Subscription

	it := client.Topic(topicID).Subscriptions(ctx)
	for {
		sub, err := it.Next()
		if err == iterator.Done {
			break
		}
		if err != nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Next: %v", err)
		}
		subs = append(subs, sub)
	}
	return subs, nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Java API reference documentation.

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import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.TopicAdminClient;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.TopicName;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ListSubscriptionsInTopicExample {
  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    String topicId = "your-topic-id";

    listSubscriptionInTopicExample(projectId, topicId);
  }

  public static void listSubscriptionInTopicExample(String projectId, String topicId)
      throws IOException {
    try (TopicAdminClient topicAdminClient = TopicAdminClient.create()) {
      TopicName topicName = TopicName.of(projectId, topicId);
      for (String subscription : topicAdminClient.listTopicSubscriptions(topicName).iterateAll()) {
        System.out.println(subscription);
      }
      System.out.println("Listed all the subscriptions in the topic.");
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Node.js API reference documentation.

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/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment this variable before running the sample.
 */
// const topicNameOrId = 'YOUR_TOPIC_NAME_OR_ID';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {PubSub} = require('@google-cloud/pubsub');

// Creates a client; cache this for further use
const pubSubClient = new PubSub();

async function listTopicSubscriptions(topicNameOrId) {
  // Lists all subscriptions for the topic
  const [subscriptions] = await pubSubClient
    .topic(topicNameOrId)
    .getSubscriptions();

  console.log(`Subscriptions for ${topicNameOrId}:`);
  subscriptions.forEach(subscription => console.log(subscription.name));
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Python API reference documentation.

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from google.cloud import pubsub_v1

# TODO(developer)
# project_id = "your-project-id"
# topic_id = "your-topic-id"

publisher = pubsub_v1.PublisherClient()
topic_path = publisher.topic_path(project_id, topic_id)

response = publisher.list_topic_subscriptions(request={"topic": topic_path})
for subscription in response:
    print(subscription)

Ruby

Before trying this sample, follow the Ruby setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Ruby API reference documentation.

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# topic_id = "your-topic-id"
require "google/cloud/pubsub"

pubsub = Google::Cloud::Pubsub.new

topic         = pubsub.topic topic_id
subscriptions = topic.subscriptions

puts "Subscriptions in topic #{topic.name}:"
subscriptions.each do |subscription|
  puts subscription.name
end

Detach a subscription from a topic

When you create a subscription, you attach the subscription to a topic, and subscribers can receive messages from the subscription. To stop subscribers from receiving messages, you can detach subscriptions from the topic.

Before you detach a subscription, you need the pubsub.topics.detachSubscription permission on the topic. You can detach a subscription without permissions on the subscription, which is useful for managing a topic that is in a different project than the subscription. For more information, see Pub/Sub access control.

You can detach a subscription from a topic using the Google Cloud console, the Google Cloud CLI, the client library, or the Pub/Sub API.

Console

To detach a subscription, follow these steps:

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Topics page.

   Go to Topics

2. Select the topic from which you want to detach a subscription.

3. In the Subscriptions tab, select the subscription to detach.

4. In the Subscription details page, click Detach.

5. In the dialog that appears, click Detach again.

gcloud

1. In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

   Activate Cloud Shell

   At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

2. To detach a subscription, use the gcloud pubsub topics detach-subscription command:

   gcloud pubsub topics detach-subscription SUBSCRIPTION_ID

   If the request is successful, the command line displays a confirmation:

   Detached subscription [SUBSCRIPTION_ID].

REST

To detach a subscription, use the projects.subscriptions.detachmethod.

Request:

The request must be authenticated with an access token in the Authorization header. To obtain an access token for the current Application Default Credentials, use the gcloud auth application-default print-access-token command.

POST https://pubsub.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_ID:detach
Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN

Where:

PROJECT_ID is your project ID.

SUBSCRIPTION_ID is your subscription ID.

Response:

If the request is successful, the response is an empty JSON object.

C++

Before trying this sample, follow the C++ setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C++ API reference documentation.

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namespace pubsub = ::google::cloud::pubsub;
[](pubsub::TopicAdminClient client, std::string project_id,
   std::string subscription_id) {
  auto response = client.DetachSubscription(pubsub::Subscription(
      std::move(project_id), std::move(subscription_id)));
  if (!response.ok()) throw std::move(response).status();

  std::cout << "The subscription was successfully detached: "
            << response->DebugString() << "\n";
}

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C# API reference documentation.

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using Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1;
using System;

public class DetachSubscriptionSample
{
    public void DetachSubscription(string projectId, string subscriptionId)
    {
        PublisherServiceApiClient publisher = PublisherServiceApiClient.Create();

        DetachSubscriptionRequest detachSubscriptionRequest = new DetachSubscriptionRequest
        {
            SubscriptionAsSubscriptionName = SubscriptionName.FromProjectSubscription(projectId, subscriptionId),
        };

        publisher.DetachSubscription(detachSubscriptionRequest);

        Console.WriteLine($"Subscription {subscriptionId} is detached.");
    }
}

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Go API reference documentation.

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import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

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

func detachSubscription(w io.Writer, projectID, subName string) error {
	// projectID is the project which contains the topic you manage.
	// This might differ from the project which contains the subscription
	// you wish to detach, which can exist in any GCP project.
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// subName := "projects/some-project/subscriptions/my-sub"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := pubsub.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("pubsub.NewClient: %v", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	// Call DetachSubscription, which detaches a subscription from
	// a topic. This can only be done if you have the
	// `pubsub.topics.detachSubscription` role on the topic.
	_, err = client.DetachSubscription(ctx, subName)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("detach subscription failed: %v", err)
	}

	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Detached subscription %s", subName)
	return nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Java API reference documentation.

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import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionAdminClient;
import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.TopicAdminClient;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.DetachSubscriptionRequest;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.Subscription;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionName;
import java.io.IOException;

public class DetachSubscriptionExample {
  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    // Choose an existing subscription.
    String subscriptionId = "your-subscription-id";

    detachSubscriptionExample(projectId, subscriptionId);
  }

  public static void detachSubscriptionExample(String projectId, String subscriptionId)
      throws IOException {
    SubscriptionName subscriptionName = SubscriptionName.of(projectId, subscriptionId);

    try (TopicAdminClient topicAdminClient = TopicAdminClient.create()) {
      topicAdminClient.detachSubscription(
          DetachSubscriptionRequest.newBuilder()
              .setSubscription(subscriptionName.toString())
              .build());
    }

    try (SubscriptionAdminClient subscriptionAdminClient = SubscriptionAdminClient.create()) {
      Subscription subscription = subscriptionAdminClient.getSubscription(subscriptionName);
      if (subscription.getDetached()) {
        System.out.println("Subscription is detached.");
      } else {
        System.out.println("Subscription is NOT detached.");
      }
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Node.js API reference documentation.

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/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
 */
// const subscriptionNameOrId = 'YOUR_EXISTING_SUBSCRIPTION_NAME_OR_ID';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {PubSub} = require('@google-cloud/pubsub');

// Creates a client; cache this for further use
const pubSubClient = new PubSub();

async function detachSubscription(subscriptionNameOrId) {
  // Gets the status of the existing subscription
  const sub = pubSubClient.subscription(subscriptionNameOrId);
  const [detached] = await sub.detached();
  console.log(
    `Subscription ${subscriptionNameOrId} 'before' detached status: ${detached}`
  );

  await pubSubClient.detachSubscription(subscriptionNameOrId);
  console.log(`Subscription ${subscriptionNameOrId} detach request was sent.`);

  const [updatedDetached] = await sub.detached();
  console.log(
    `Subscription ${subscriptionNameOrId} 'after' detached status: ${updatedDetached}`
  );
}

PHP

Before trying this sample, follow the PHP setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub PHP API reference documentation.

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use Google\Cloud\PubSub\PubSubClient;

/**
 * Detach a Pub/Sub subscription from a topic.
 *
 * @param string $projectId  The Google project ID.
 * @param string $subscriptionName  The Pub/Sub subscription name.
 */
function detach_subscription($projectId, $subscriptionName)
{
    $pubsub = new PubSubClient([
        'projectId' => $projectId,
    ]);
    $subscription = $pubsub->subscription($subscriptionName);
    $subscription->detach();

    printf('Subscription detached: %s' . PHP_EOL, $subscription->name());
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Python API reference documentation.

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from google.api_core.exceptions import GoogleAPICallError, RetryError
from google.cloud import pubsub_v1

# TODO(developer): Choose an existing subscription.
# project_id = "your-project-id"
# subscription_id = "your-subscription-id"

publisher_client = pubsub_v1.PublisherClient()
subscriber_client = pubsub_v1.SubscriberClient()
subscription_path = subscriber_client.subscription_path(project_id, subscription_id)

try:
    publisher_client.detach_subscription(
        request={"subscription": subscription_path}
    )
except (GoogleAPICallError, RetryError, ValueError, Exception) as err:
    print(err)

subscription = subscriber_client.get_subscription(
    request={"subscription": subscription_path}
)
if subscription.detached:
    print(f"{subscription_path} is detached.")
else:
    print(f"{subscription_path} is NOT detached.")

Ruby

Before trying this sample, follow the Ruby setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Ruby API reference documentation.

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# subscription_id = "your-subscription-id"
require "google/cloud/pubsub"

pubsub = Google::Cloud::Pubsub.new

subscription = pubsub.subscription subscription_id
subscription.detach

sleep 120
subscription.reload!
if subscription.detached?
  puts "Subscription is detached."
else
  puts "Subscription is NOT detached."
end

The Pub/Sub service might take several minutes to finish detaching the subscription from the topic.

After the Pub/Sub service detaches the subscription from the topic, the Pub/Sub service deletes any messages that it retains for the subscription. You can't retrieve these messages from the subscription or reattach the subscription to a topic. To free up your Cloud project quota, delete the subscription.

If the subscription and the topic are in different Cloud projects, the Pub/Sub service adds an entry to the audit logs of both projects.

Delete subscriptions

You can delete subscriptions with the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, client library, or Pub/Sub API.

Caution: Deletion is permanent. Once deleted, subscriptions cannot be restored.

Console

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Subscriptions page.

   Go to Subscriptions

2. Select the subscription to delete.
3. Click Delete.

gcloud

1. In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

   Activate Cloud Shell

   At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

2. To delete a subscription, run the gcloud pubsub subscriptions delete command:

   gcloud pubsub subscriptions delete SUBSCRIPTION_ID

REST

To delete a subscription, use the projects.subscriptions.delete method:

Request:

The request must be authenticated with an access token in the Authorization header. To obtain an access token for the current Application Default Credentials: gcloud auth application-default print-access-token.

DELETE https://pubsub.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_ID
Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN
    

Where:

PROJECT_ID is your project ID.

SUBSCRIPTION_ID is your subscription ID.

Response:

If the request is successful, the response is an empty JSON object.

C++

Before trying this sample, follow the C++ setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C++ API reference documentation.

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namespace pubsub = ::google::cloud::pubsub;
[](pubsub::SubscriptionAdminClient client, std::string const& project_id,
   std::string const& subscription_id) {
  auto status = client.DeleteSubscription(pubsub::Subscription(
      std::move(project_id), std::move(subscription_id)));
  // Note that kNotFound is a possible result when the library retries.
  if (status.code() == google::cloud::StatusCode::kNotFound) {
    std::cout << "The subscription was not found\n";
    return;
  }
  if (!status.ok()) throw std::runtime_error(status.message());

  std::cout << "The subscription was successfully deleted\n";
}

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C# API reference documentation.

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using Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1;

public class DeleteSubscriptionSample
{
    public void DeleteSubscription(string projectId, string subscriptionId)
    {
        SubscriberServiceApiClient subscriber = SubscriberServiceApiClient.Create();
        SubscriptionName subscriptionName = SubscriptionName.FromProjectSubscription(projectId, subscriptionId);
        subscriber.DeleteSubscription(subscriptionName);
    }
}

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Go API reference documentation.

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import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

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

func delete(w io.Writer, projectID, subID string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// subID := "my-sub"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := pubsub.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("pubsub.NewClient: %v", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	sub := client.Subscription(subID)
	if err := sub.Delete(ctx); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Delete: %v", err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Subscription %q deleted.", subID)
	return nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Java API reference documentation.

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import com.google.api.gax.rpc.NotFoundException;
import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionAdminClient;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionName;
import java.io.IOException;

public class DeleteSubscriptionExample {

  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    String subscriptionId = "your-subscription-id";

    deleteSubscriptionExample(projectId, subscriptionId);
  }

  public static void deleteSubscriptionExample(String projectId, String subscriptionId)
      throws IOException {
    try (SubscriptionAdminClient subscriptionAdminClient = SubscriptionAdminClient.create()) {
      SubscriptionName subscriptionName = SubscriptionName.of(projectId, subscriptionId);
      try {
        subscriptionAdminClient.deleteSubscription(subscriptionName);
        System.out.println("Deleted subscription.");
      } catch (NotFoundException e) {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
      }
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Node.js API reference documentation.

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/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment this variable before running the sample.
 */
// const subscriptionNameOrId = 'YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_NAME_OR_ID';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {PubSub} = require('@google-cloud/pubsub');

// Creates a client; cache this for further use
const pubSubClient = new PubSub();

async function deleteSubscription(subscriptionNameOrId) {
  // Deletes the subscription
  await pubSubClient.subscription(subscriptionNameOrId).delete();
  console.log(`Subscription ${subscriptionNameOrId} deleted.`);
}

PHP

Before trying this sample, follow the PHP setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub PHP API reference documentation.

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use Google\Cloud\PubSub\PubSubClient;

/**
 * Creates a Pub/Sub subscription.
 *
 * @param string $projectId  The Google project ID.
 * @param string $subscriptionName  The Pub/Sub subscription name.
 */
function delete_subscription($projectId, $subscriptionName)
{
    $pubsub = new PubSubClient([
        'projectId' => $projectId,
    ]);
    $subscription = $pubsub->subscription($subscriptionName);
    $subscription->delete();

    printf('Subscription deleted: %s' . PHP_EOL, $subscription->name());
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Python API reference documentation.

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from google.cloud import pubsub_v1

# TODO(developer)
# project_id = "your-project-id"
# subscription_id = "your-subscription-id"

subscriber = pubsub_v1.SubscriberClient()
subscription_path = subscriber.subscription_path(project_id, subscription_id)

# Wrap the subscriber in a 'with' block to automatically call close() to
# close the underlying gRPC channel when done.
with subscriber:
    subscriber.delete_subscription(request={"subscription": subscription_path})

print(f"Subscription deleted: {subscription_path}.")

Ruby

Before trying this sample, follow the Ruby setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Ruby API reference documentation.

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# subscription_id = "your-subscription-id"
require "google/cloud/pubsub"

pubsub = Google::Cloud::Pubsub.new

subscription = pubsub.subscription subscription_id
subscription.delete

puts "Subscription #{subscription_id} deleted."

Monitor subscriptions

Cloud Monitoring provides a number of metrics to monitor subscriptions.

You can also monitor subscriptions from within Pub/Sub.

What's next

• Decide on the