Delete a schema for a topic

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

Caution: Deletion is permanent. You cannot restore a schema that is deleted. Any messages published to a topic that used the deleted schema cannot be written to BigQuery using a BigQuerysubscription with use topic schema enabled.

Before you begin

• Understand how Pub/Sub schemas work.
• Create a schema.

Required roles and permissions

To get the permissions that you need to delete and manage schemas, ask your administrator to grant you the Pub/Sub Editor (roles/pubsub.editor) IAM role on your project. For more information about granting roles, see Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations.

This predefined role contains the permissions required to delete and manage schemas. To see the exact permissions that are required, expand the Required permissions section:

Required permissions

The following permissions are required to delete and manage schemas:

• Create schema: pubsub.schemas.create
• Attach schema to topic: pubsub.schemas.attach
• Commit a schema revision: pubsub.schemas.commit
• Delete a schema or a schema revision: pubsub.schemas.delete
• Get a schema or schema revisions: pubsub.schemas.get
• List schemas: pubsub.schemas.list
• List schema revisions: pubsub.schemas.listRevisions
• Rollback a schema: pubsub.schemas.rollback
• Validate a message: pubsub.schemas.validate
• Get the IAM policy for a schema: pubsub.schemas.getIamPolicy
• Configure the IAM policy for a schema: pubsub.schemas.setIamPolicy

You might also be able to get these permissions with custom roles or other predefined roles.

You can grant roles and permissions to principals such as users, groups, domains, or service accounts. You can create a schema in one project and attach it to a topic located in a different project. Ensure that you have the required permissions for each project.

Delete a schema

Important: If a schema is deleted, all attempts to publish messages to topics associated with that schema fail.

The delete operation for a schema also deletes all the revisions associated with the schema.

If you try to create a schema with the same name as the one that you just deleted, expect an error for a brief period.

Before deleting a schema, ensure you remove its association from a topic.

Console

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Pub/Sub schemas page.

   Go to Schemas

2. Select one or more schemas that you want to delete.

3. Click Delete.

4. Confirm the delete operation.

gcloud

gcloud pubsub schemas delete SCHEMA_NAME

REST

To delete a schema send a DELETE request like the following:

DELETE https://pubsub.googleapis.com/v1/SCHEMA_NAME

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.

namespace pubsub = ::google::cloud::pubsub;
[](pubsub::SchemaServiceClient client, std::string const& project_id,
   std::string const& schema_id) {
  google::pubsub::v1::DeleteSchemaRequest request;
  request.set_name(pubsub::Schema(project_id, schema_id).FullName());
  auto status = client.DeleteSchema(request);
  // Note that kNotFound is a possible result when the library retries.
  if (status.code() == google::cloud::StatusCode::kNotFound) {
    std::cout << "The schema was not found\n";
    return;
  }
  if (!status.ok()) throw std::runtime_error(status.message());

  std::cout << "Schema successfully deleted\n";
}

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.

using Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1;

public class DeleteSchemaSample
{
    public void DeleteSchema(string projectId, string schemaId)
    {
        SchemaServiceClient schemaService = SchemaServiceClient.Create();
        SchemaName schemaName = SchemaName.FromProjectSchema(projectId, schemaId);
        schemaService.DeleteSchema(schemaName);
    }
}

Go

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

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

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

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

	if err := client.DeleteSchema(ctx, schemaID); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("client.DeleteSchema: %w", err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Deleted schema: %s", schemaID)
	return nil
}

Java

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

import com.google.api.gax.rpc.NotFoundException;
import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.SchemaServiceClient;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.SchemaName;
import java.io.IOException;

public class DeleteSchemaExample {

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

    deleteSchemaExample(projectId, schemaId);
  }

  public static void deleteSchemaExample(String projectId, String schemaId) throws IOException {
    SchemaName schemaName = SchemaName.of(projectId, schemaId);

    try (SchemaServiceClient schemaServiceClient = SchemaServiceClient.create()) {

      schemaServiceClient.deleteSchema(schemaName);

      System.out.println("Deleted a schema:" + schemaName);

    } catch (NotFoundException e) {
      System.out.println(schemaName + "not found.");
    }
  }
}

Node.js

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

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment this variable before running the sample.
 */
// const schemaNameOrId = 'YOUR_SCHEMA_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 deleteSchema(schemaNameOrId) {
  const schema = pubSubClient.schema(schemaNameOrId);
  const name = await schema.getName();
  await schema.delete();
  console.log(`Schema ${name} deleted.`);
}

Node.js

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

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

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
import {PubSub} from '@google-cloud/pubsub';

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

async function deleteSchema(schemaNameOrId: string) {
  const schema = pubSubClient.schema(schemaNameOrId);
  const name = await schema.getName();
  await schema.delete();
  console.log(`Schema ${name} deleted.`);
}

PHP

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

use Google\Cloud\PubSub\PubSubClient;

/**
 * Delete a schema.
 *
 * @param string $projectId
 * @param string $schemaId
 */
function delete_schema($projectId, $schemaId)
{
    $pubsub = new PubSubClient([
        'projectId' => $projectId,
    ]);

    $schema = $pubsub->schema($schemaId);

    if ($schema->exists()) {
        $schema->delete();

        printf('Schema %s deleted.', $schema->name());
    } else {
        printf('Schema %s does not exist.', $schema->name());
    }
}

Python

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

from google.api_core.exceptions import NotFound
from google.cloud.pubsub import SchemaServiceClient

# TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
# project_id = "your-project-id"
# schema_id = "your-schema-id"

schema_client = SchemaServiceClient()
schema_path = schema_client.schema_path(project_id, schema_id)

try:
    schema_client.delete_schema(request={"name": schema_path})
    print(f"Deleted a schema:\n{schema_path}")
except NotFound:
    print(f"{schema_id} not found.")

Ruby

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

# schema_id = "your-schema-id"

pubsub = Google::Cloud::Pubsub.new

schema = pubsub.schema schema_id
schema.delete

puts "Schema #{schema_id} deleted."

What's next

• Delete a schema revision
• List schemas
• List revisions of a schema
• Subscribe to a topic with a schema