Creating Sensitive Data Protection inspection templates

This topic describes in detail how to create a new inspection template. For a quick walkthrough of how to create a new inspection template using the Google Cloud console, see Quickstart: Creating a Sensitive Data Protection inspection template.

About templates

You can use templates to create and persist configuration information to use with Sensitive Data Protection. Templates are useful for decoupling configuration information—such as what you inspect for and how you de-identify it—from the implementation of your requests. Templates provide a way to re-use configuration and enable consistency across users and datasets. In addition, whenever you update a template, it's updated for any job trigger that uses it.

Sensitive Data Protection supports inspection templates, which are discussed in this topic, and de-identification templates, which are discussed in Creating Sensitive Data Protection de-identification templates.

For conceptual information about templates in Sensitive Data Protection, see Templates.

Create a new inspection template

Important: The code on this page requires that you first set up a Sensitive Data Protection client. For more information about installing and creating a Sensitive Data Protection client, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries. (Sending JSON to Sensitive Data Protection REST endpoints does not require a client library.)

Console

In the Google Cloud console, go to the Create template page.

Go to Create template

The Create template page contains the following sections:

• Define template
• Configure detection

Define template

Under Define template, enter an identifier for the inspection template. This is how you'll refer to the template when you run a job, create a job trigger, and so on. You can use letters, numbers, and hyphens. If you want, you can also enter a more human-friendly display name, as well as a description to better remember what the template does.

In the Resource location field, select the region where the data to be inspected is stored. The inspection template you create is also stored in this region. If you want to be able to use the new inspection template in any region, select Global (any region).

Configure detection

Next, you configure what Sensitive Data Protection detects in your content by choosing an infoType and other options.

InfoType detectors find sensitive data of a certain type. For example, the Sensitive Data Protection US_SOCIAL_SECURITY_NUMBER infoType detector finds US Social Security numbers. In addition to the built-in infoType detectors, you can create your own custom infoType detectors.

In the InfoTypes section, choose the infoType detector that corresponds to a data type you want to scan for. We don't recommend leaving this section blank. Doing so causes Sensitive Data Protection to scan your data with a default set of infoTypes, which might include infoTypes that you don't need. More information about each detector is provided in InfoType detector reference.

For more information about how to manage built-in and custom infoTypes in this section, see Manage infoTypes through the Google Cloud console.

Inspection rulesets

Inspection rulesets allow you to customize both built-in and custom infoType detectors using context rules. The two types of inspection rules are:

• Exclusion rules, which help exclude false or unwanted findings.
• Hotword rules, which help detect additional findings.

To add a new ruleset, first specify one or more built-in or custom infoType detectors in the InfoTypes section. These are the infoType detectors that your rulesets will be modifying. Then, do the following:

1. Click in the Choose infoTypes field. The infoType or infoTypes you specified previously appear below the field in a menu, as shown here:

2. Choose an infoType from the menu, and then click Add rule. A menu appears with the two options Hotword rule and Exclusion rule.

For hotword rules, choose Hotword rules. Then, do the following:

1. In the Hotword field, enter a regular expression that Sensitive Data Protection should look for.
2. From the Hotword proximity menu, choose whether the hotword you entered is found before or after the chosen infoType.
3. In Hotword distance from infoType, enter the approximate number of characters between the hotword and the chosen infoType.
4. In Confidence level adjustment, choose whether to assign matches a fixed likelihood level, or to increase or decrease the default likelihood level by a certain amount.

For exclusion rules, choose Exclusion rules. Then, do the following:

1. In the Exclude field, enter a regular expression (regex) that Sensitive Data Protection should look for.
2. From the Matching type menu, choose one of the following:
• Full match: The finding must completely match the regex.
• Partial match: A substring of the finding can match the regex.
• Inverse match: The finding doesn't match the regex.

You can add additional hotword or exclusion rules and rulesets to further refine your scan results.

Confidence threshold

Every time Sensitive Data Protection detects a potential match for sensitive data, it assigns it a likelihood value on a scale from "Very unlikely" to "Very likely." When you set a likelihood value here, you are instructing Sensitive Data Protection to only match on data that corresponds to that likelihood value or higher.

The default value of "Possible" is sufficient for most purposes. If you routinely get matches that are too broad, move the slider up. If you get too few matches, move the slider down.

When you're done, click Create to create the template. The template's summary information page appears.

To return to the main Sensitive Data Protection page, click the Back arrow in the Google Cloud console.

C#

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

using Google.Api.Gax.ResourceNames;
using Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2;
using System;

public class InspectTemplateCreate
{
    public static InspectTemplate Create(
        string projectId,
        string templateId,
        string displayName,
        string description,
        Likelihood likelihood,
        int maxFindings,
        bool includeQuote)
    {
        var client = DlpServiceClient.Create();

        var request = new CreateInspectTemplateRequest
        {
            Parent = new LocationName(projectId, "global").ToString(),
            InspectTemplate = new InspectTemplate
            {
                DisplayName = displayName,
                Description = description,
                InspectConfig = new InspectConfig
                {
                    MinLikelihood = likelihood,
                    Limits = new InspectConfig.Types.FindingLimits
                    {
                        MaxFindingsPerRequest = maxFindings
                    },
                    IncludeQuote = includeQuote
                },
            },
            TemplateId = templateId
        };

        var response = client.CreateInspectTemplate(request);

        Console.WriteLine($"Successfully created template {response.Name}.");

        return response;
    }
}

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	dlp "cloud.google.com/go/dlp/apiv2"
	"cloud.google.com/go/dlp/apiv2/dlppb"
)

// createInspectTemplate creates a template with the given configuration.
func createInspectTemplate(w io.Writer, projectID string, templateID, displayName, description string, infoTypeNames []string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// templateID := "my-template"
	// displayName := "My Template"
	// description := "My template description"
	// infoTypeNames := []string{"US_SOCIAL_SECURITY_NUMBER"}

	ctx := context.Background()

	client, err := dlp.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("dlp.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	// Convert the info type strings to a list of InfoTypes.
	var infoTypes []*dlppb.InfoType
	for _, it := range infoTypeNames {
		infoTypes = append(infoTypes, &dlppb.InfoType{Name: it})
	}

	// Create a configured request.
	req := &dlppb.CreateInspectTemplateRequest{
		Parent:     fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/locations/global", projectID),
		TemplateId: templateID,
		InspectTemplate: &dlppb.InspectTemplate{
			DisplayName: displayName,
			Description: description,
			InspectConfig: &dlppb.InspectConfig{
				InfoTypes:     infoTypes,
				MinLikelihood: dlppb.Likelihood_POSSIBLE,
				Limits: &dlppb.InspectConfig_FindingLimits{
					MaxFindingsPerRequest: 10,
				},
			},
		},
	}
	// Send the request.
	resp, err := client.CreateInspectTemplate(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("CreateInspectTemplate: %w", err)
	}
	// Print the result.
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Successfully created inspect template: %v", resp.GetName())
	return nil
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

import com.google.cloud.dlp.v2.DlpServiceClient;
import com.google.privacy.dlp.v2.CreateInspectTemplateRequest;
import com.google.privacy.dlp.v2.InfoType;
import com.google.privacy.dlp.v2.InspectConfig;
import com.google.privacy.dlp.v2.InspectTemplate;
import com.google.privacy.dlp.v2.LocationName;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

class TemplatesCreate {

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

  // Creates a template to persist configuration information
  public static void createInspectTemplate(String projectId) throws IOException {
    // Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
    // once, and can be reused for multiple requests. After completing all of your requests, call
    // the "close" method on the client to safely clean up any remaining background resources.
    try (DlpServiceClient dlpServiceClient = DlpServiceClient.create()) {
      // Specify the type of info the inspection will look for.
      // See https://cloud.google.com/dlp/docs/infotypes-reference for complete list of info types
      List<InfoType> infoTypes =
          Stream.of("PHONE_NUMBER", "EMAIL_ADDRESS", "CREDIT_CARD_NUMBER")
              .map(it -> InfoType.newBuilder().setName(it).build())
              .collect(Collectors.toList());

      // Construct the inspection configuration for the template
      InspectConfig inspectConfig = InspectConfig.newBuilder().addAllInfoTypes(infoTypes).build();

      // Optionally set a display name and a description for the template
      String displayName = "Inspection Config Template";
      String description = "Save configuration for future inspection jobs";

      // Build the template
      InspectTemplate inspectTemplate =
          InspectTemplate.newBuilder()
              .setInspectConfig(inspectConfig)
              .setDisplayName(displayName)
              .setDescription(description)
              .build();

      // Create the request to be sent by the client
      CreateInspectTemplateRequest createInspectTemplateRequest =
          CreateInspectTemplateRequest.newBuilder()
              .setParent(LocationName.of(projectId, "global").toString())
              .setInspectTemplate(inspectTemplate)
              .build();

      // Send the request to the API and process the response
      InspectTemplate response =
          dlpServiceClient.createInspectTemplate(createInspectTemplateRequest);
      System.out.printf("Template created: %s", response.getName());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

// Imports the Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention library
const DLP = require('@google-cloud/dlp');

// Instantiates a client
const dlp = new DLP.DlpServiceClient();

// The project ID to run the API call under
// const projectId = 'my-project';

// The minimum likelihood required before returning a match
// const minLikelihood = 'LIKELIHOOD_UNSPECIFIED';

// The maximum number of findings to report per request (0 = server maximum)
// const maxFindings = 0;

// The infoTypes of information to match
// const infoTypes = [{ name: 'PHONE_NUMBER' }, { name: 'EMAIL_ADDRESS' }, { name: 'CREDIT_CARD_NUMBER' }];

// Whether to include the matching string
// const includeQuote = true;

// (Optional) The name of the template to be created.
// const templateId = 'my-template';

// (Optional) The human-readable name to give the template
// const displayName = 'My template';

async function createInspectTemplate() {
  // Construct the inspection configuration for the template
  const inspectConfig = {
    infoTypes: infoTypes,
    minLikelihood: minLikelihood,
    includeQuote: includeQuote,
    limits: {
      maxFindingsPerRequest: maxFindings,
    },
  };

  // Construct template-creation request
  const request = {
    parent: `projects/${projectId}/locations/global`,
    inspectTemplate: {
      inspectConfig: inspectConfig,
      displayName: displayName,
    },
    templateId: templateId,
  };

  const [response] = await dlp.createInspectTemplate(request);
  const templateName = response.name;
  console.log(`Successfully created template ${templateName}.`);
}
createInspectTemplate();

PHP

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

use Google\Cloud\Dlp\V2\Client\DlpServiceClient;
use Google\Cloud\Dlp\V2\CreateInspectTemplateRequest;
use Google\Cloud\Dlp\V2\InfoType;
use Google\Cloud\Dlp\V2\InspectConfig;
use Google\Cloud\Dlp\V2\InspectConfig\FindingLimits;
use Google\Cloud\Dlp\V2\InspectTemplate;
use Google\Cloud\Dlp\V2\Likelihood;

/**
 * Create a new DLP inspection configuration template.
 *
 * @param string $callingProjectId project ID to run the API call under
 * @param string $templateId       name of the template to be created
 * @param string $displayName      (Optional) The human-readable name to give the template
 * @param string $description      (Optional) A description for the trigger to be created
 * @param int    $maxFindings      (Optional) The maximum number of findings to report per request (0 = server maximum)
 */
function create_inspect_template(
    string $callingProjectId,
    string $templateId,
    string $displayName = '',
    string $description = '',
    int $maxFindings = 0
): void {
    // Instantiate a client.
    $dlp = new DlpServiceClient();

    // ----- Construct inspection config -----
    // The infoTypes of information to match
    $personNameInfoType = (new InfoType())
        ->setName('PERSON_NAME');
    $phoneNumberInfoType = (new InfoType())
        ->setName('PHONE_NUMBER');
    $infoTypes = [$personNameInfoType, $phoneNumberInfoType];

    // Whether to include the matching string in the response
    $includeQuote = true;

    // The minimum likelihood required before returning a match
    $minLikelihood = likelihood::LIKELIHOOD_UNSPECIFIED;

    // Specify finding limits
    $limits = (new FindingLimits())
        ->setMaxFindingsPerRequest($maxFindings);

    // Create the configuration object
    $inspectConfig = (new InspectConfig())
        ->setMinLikelihood($minLikelihood)
        ->setLimits($limits)
        ->setInfoTypes($infoTypes)
        ->setIncludeQuote($includeQuote);

    // Construct inspection template
    $inspectTemplate = (new InspectTemplate())
        ->setInspectConfig($inspectConfig)
        ->setDisplayName($displayName)
        ->setDescription($description);

    // Run request
    $parent = "projects/$callingProjectId/locations/global";
    $createInspectTemplateRequest = (new CreateInspectTemplateRequest())
        ->setParent($parent)
        ->setInspectTemplate($inspectTemplate)
        ->setTemplateId($templateId);
    $template = $dlp->createInspectTemplate($createInspectTemplateRequest);

    // Print results
    printf('Successfully created template %s' . PHP_EOL, $template->getName());
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

from typing import List
from typing import Optional

import google.cloud.dlp


def create_inspect_template(
    project: str,
    info_types: List[str],
    template_id: Optional[str] = None,
    display_name: Optional[str] = None,
    min_likelihood: Optional[int] = None,
    max_findings: Optional[int] = None,
    include_quote: Optional[bool] = None,
) -> None:
    """Creates a Data Loss Prevention API inspect template.
    Args:
        project: The Google Cloud project id to use as a parent resource.
        info_types: A list of strings representing info types to look for.
            A full list of info type categories can be fetched from the API.
        template_id: The id of the template. If omitted, an id will be randomly
            generated.
        display_name: The optional display name of the template.
        min_likelihood: A string representing the minimum likelihood threshold
            that constitutes a match. One of: 'LIKELIHOOD_UNSPECIFIED',
            'VERY_UNLIKELY', 'UNLIKELY', 'POSSIBLE', 'LIKELY', 'VERY_LIKELY'.
        max_findings: The maximum number of findings to report; 0 = no maximum.
        include_quote: Boolean for whether to display a quote of the detected
            information in the results.
    Returns:
        None; the response from the API is printed to the terminal.
    """

    # Instantiate a client.
    dlp = google.cloud.dlp_v2.DlpServiceClient()

    # Prepare info_types by converting the list of strings into a list of
    # dictionaries (protos are also accepted).
    info_types = [{"name": info_type} for info_type in info_types]

    # Construct the configuration dictionary. Keys which are None may
    # optionally be omitted entirely.
    inspect_config = {
        "info_types": info_types,
        "min_likelihood": min_likelihood,
        "include_quote": include_quote,
        "limits": {"max_findings_per_request": max_findings},
    }

    inspect_template = {
        "inspect_config": inspect_config,
        "display_name": display_name,
    }

    # Convert the project id into a full resource id.
    parent = f"projects/{project}"

    # Call the API.
    response = dlp.create_inspect_template(
        request={
            "parent": parent,
            "inspect_template": inspect_template,
            "template_id": template_id,
        }
    )

    print(f"Successfully created template {response.name}")

REST

An inspection template is a reusable inspection configuration plus some metadata. In API terms, the InspectTemplate object is effectively an InspectConfig object that includes a few more fields of metadata, such as a display name and a description. Therefore, to create a new inspection template, the basic steps are:

1. Start with an InspectConfig object.
2. Call or POST the create method of either the projects.inspectTemplates or organizations.inspectTemplates resource, including in your request an InspectTemplate object that contains a display name, a description, and that InspectConfig object.

The returned InspectTemplate will be ready for use immediately. You can reference it in other calls or jobs by its name. You can list the existing templates by calling the *.inspectTemplates.list method. To view a specific template, call the *.inspectTemplates.get method. Note that the limit for the number of templates you can create is 1000.

If you've already had some experience inspecting text, images, or structured content for sensitive content using Sensitive Data Protection, you've already created an InspectConfig object. One additional step turns it into an InspectTemplate object.

The following JSON is an example of what you can send to the projects.inspectTemplates.create method. This JSON creates a new template with the given display name and description, and scans for matches on the infoTypes PHONE_NUMBER and US_TOLLFREE_PHONE_NUMBER. It will include in its findings up to 100 matches whose likelihoods are at least POSSIBLE, and will include a snippet of context for each.

JSON input:

POST https://dlp.googleapis.com/v2/projects/[PROJECT_ID]/inspectTemplates?key={YOUR_API_KEY}

{
  "inspectTemplate":{
    "displayName":"Phone number inspection",
    "description":"Scans for phone numbers",
    "inspectConfig":{
      "infoTypes":[
        {
          "name":"PHONE_NUMBER"
        },
        {
          "name":"US_TOLLFREE_PHONE_NUMBER"
        }
      ],
      "minLikelihood":"POSSIBLE",
      "limits":{
        "maxFindingsPerRequest":100
      },
      "includeQuote":true
    }
  }
}

JSON output:

The response JSON looks like the following:

{
  "name":"projects/[PROJECT_ID]/inspectTemplates/[JOB_ID]",
  "displayName":"Phone number inspection",
  "description":"Scans for phone numbers",
  "createTime":"2018-11-30T07:26:28.164136Z",
  "updateTime":"2018-11-30T07:26:28.164136Z",
  "inspectConfig":{
    "infoTypes":[
      {
        "name":"PHONE_NUMBER"
      },
      {
        "name":"US_TOLLFREE_PHONE_NUMBER"
      }
    ],
    "minLikelihood":"POSSIBLE",
    "limits":{
      "maxFindingsPerRequest":100
    },
    "includeQuote":true
  }
}

Note: This template was created at the project level, but you could also create it at the organization level using the organizations.inspectTemplates.create method.

To quickly try this out, you can use the APIs Explorer that's embedded below. For general information about using JSON to send requests to the DLP API, see the JSON quickstart.

Use inspection templates

After you create a new inspection template, you can use it when creating a new inspection job or job trigger. Whenever you update that template, it's updated in any job trigger that uses it. For more information, including code samples, see:

• Inspecting storage and databases for sensitive data
• Creating and scheduling Sensitive Data Protection inspection jobs

Console

To get started quickly using your new template, follow the instructions provided in Quickstart creating a Sensitive Data Protection inspection template with the following change:

• In the Configure detection > Templates section, click in the Template name field and select the template you just created.

For a more in-depth walkthrough of how to scan your content, see Creating and scheduling Sensitive Data Protection inspection jobs, paying particular attention to the "Configure detection" section.

REST

You can use the template identifier you specified when creating the template anywhere inspectTemplateName is accepted, such as:

• projects.content.inspect: Finds potentially sensitive data in content using the template as its configuration.
• projects.content.deidentify: Finds and de-identifies potentially sensitive data in content using the template as its configuration. Be aware that this method uses both an inspection template and a de-identification template.
• projects.dlpJobs.create, in the InspectJobConfig object: Creates an inspection job that includes the template as its configuration.

List inspection templates

To list all inspection templates that have been created in the current project or organization:

Console

Note: There is currently no way to view organization-level templates in the console.

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Configuration page of Sensitive Data Protection.

   Go to Configuration

2. Select the project that contains the inspection templates.

3. Click the Templates tab.

The console displays a list of all inspection templates for the current project.

C#

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

using Google.Api.Gax.ResourceNames;
using Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2;
using System;
using Google.Api.Gax;

public class InspectTemplateList
{
    public static PagedEnumerable<ListInspectTemplatesResponse, InspectTemplate> List(string projectId)
    {
        var client = DlpServiceClient.Create();

        var response = client.ListInspectTemplates(
            new ListInspectTemplatesRequest
            {
                Parent = new LocationName(projectId, "global").ToString(),
            }
        );

        // Uncomment to list templates
        //PrintTemplates(response);

        return response;
    }

    public static void PrintTemplates(PagedEnumerable<ListInspectTemplatesResponse, InspectTemplate> response)
    {
        foreach (var template in response)
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"Template {template.Name}:");
            Console.WriteLine($"\tDisplay Name: {template.DisplayName}");
            Console.WriteLine($"\tDescription: {template.Description}");
            Console.WriteLine($"\tCreated: {template.CreateTime}");
            Console.WriteLine($"\tUpdated: {template.UpdateTime}");
            Console.WriteLine("Configuration:");
            Console.WriteLine($"\tMin Likelihood: {template.InspectConfig?.MinLikelihood}");
            Console.WriteLine($"\tInclude quotes: {template.InspectConfig?.IncludeQuote}");
            Console.WriteLine($"\tMax findings per request: {template.InspectConfig?.Limits.MaxFindingsPerRequest}");
        }
    }
}

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

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

	dlp "cloud.google.com/go/dlp/apiv2"
	"cloud.google.com/go/dlp/apiv2/dlppb"
	"github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes"
	"google.golang.org/api/iterator"
)

// listInspectTemplates lists the inspect templates in the project.
func listInspectTemplates(w io.Writer, projectID string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"

	ctx := context.Background()

	client, err := dlp.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("dlp.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	// Create a configured request.
	req := &dlppb.ListInspectTemplatesRequest{
		Parent: fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/locations/global", projectID),
	}

	// Send the request and iterate over the results.
	it := client.ListInspectTemplates(ctx, req)
	for {
		t, err := it.Next()
		if err == iterator.Done {
			break
		}
		if err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("Next: %w", err)
		}
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "Inspect template %v\n", t.GetName())
		c, err := ptypes.Timestamp(t.GetCreateTime())
		if err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("CreateTime Timestamp: %w", err)
		}
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "  Created: %v\n", c.Format(time.RFC1123))
		u, err := ptypes.Timestamp(t.GetUpdateTime())
		if err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("UpdateTime Timestamp: %w", err)
		}
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "  Updated: %v\n", u.Format(time.RFC1123))
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "  Display Name: %q\n", t.GetDisplayName())
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "  Description: %q\n", t.GetDescription())
	}

	return nil
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

import com.google.cloud.dlp.v2.DlpServiceClient;
import com.google.cloud.dlp.v2.DlpServiceClient.ListInspectTemplatesPagedResponse;
import com.google.privacy.dlp.v2.InfoType;
import com.google.privacy.dlp.v2.InspectConfig;
import com.google.privacy.dlp.v2.InspectTemplate;
import com.google.privacy.dlp.v2.ListInspectTemplatesRequest;
import com.google.privacy.dlp.v2.LocationName;
import java.io.IOException;

class TemplatesList {

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

  // Lists all templates associated with a given project
  public static void listInspectTemplates(String projectId) throws IOException {
    // Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
    // once, and can be reused for multiple requests. After completing all of your requests, call
    // the "close" method on the client to safely clean up any remaining background resources.
    try (DlpServiceClient dlpServiceClient = DlpServiceClient.create()) {

      // Create the request to be sent by the client
      ListInspectTemplatesRequest request =
          ListInspectTemplatesRequest.newBuilder()
              .setParent(LocationName.of(projectId, "global").toString())
              .setPageSize(1)
              .build();

      // Send the request
      ListInspectTemplatesPagedResponse response = dlpServiceClient.listInspectTemplates(request);

      // Parse through and process the response
      System.out.println("Templates found:");
      for (InspectTemplate template : response.getPage().getResponse().getInspectTemplatesList()) {
        System.out.printf("Template name: %s\n", template.getName());
        if (template.getDisplayName() != null) {
          System.out.printf("\tDisplay name: %s \n", template.getDisplayName());
          System.out.printf("\tCreate time: %s \n", template.getCreateTime());
          System.out.printf("\tUpdate time: %s \n", template.getUpdateTime());

          // print inspection config
          InspectConfig inspectConfig = template.getInspectConfig();
          for (InfoType infoType : inspectConfig.getInfoTypesList()) {
            System.out.printf("\tInfoType: %s\n", infoType.getName());
          }
          System.out.printf("\tMin likelihood: %s\n", inspectConfig.getMinLikelihood());
          System.out.printf("\tLimits: %s\n", inspectConfig.getLimits().getMaxFindingsPerRequest());
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Node.js

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

// Imports the Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention library
const DLP = require('@google-cloud/dlp');

// Instantiates a client
const dlp = new DLP.DlpServiceClient();

// The project ID to run the API call under
// const projectId = 'my-project';

// Helper function to pretty-print dates
const formatDate = date => {
  const msSinceEpoch = parseInt(date.seconds, 10) * 1000;
  return new Date(msSinceEpoch).toLocaleString('en-US');
};

async function listInspectTemplates() {
  // Construct template-listing request
  const request = {
    parent: `projects/${projectId}/locations/global`,
  };

  // Run template-deletion request
  const [templates] = await dlp.listInspectTemplates(request);

  templates.forEach(template => {
    console.log(`Template ${template.name}`);
    if (template.displayName) {
      console.log(`  Display name: ${template.displayName}`);
    }

    console.log(`  Created: ${formatDate(template.createTime)}`);
    console.log(`  Updated: ${formatDate(template.updateTime)}`);

    const inspectConfig = template.inspectConfig;
    const infoTypes = inspectConfig.infoTypes.map(x => x.name);
    console.log('  InfoTypes:', infoTypes.join(' '));
    console.log('  Minimum likelihood:', inspectConfig.minLikelihood);
    console.log('  Include quotes:', inspectConfig.includeQuote);

    const limits = inspectConfig.limits;
    console.log('  Max findings per request:', limits.maxFindingsPerRequest);
  });
}

listInspectTemplates();

PHP

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

use Google\Cloud\Dlp\V2\Client\DlpServiceClient;
use Google\Cloud\Dlp\V2\ListInspectTemplatesRequest;

/**
 * List DLP inspection configuration templates.
 *
 * @param string $callingProjectId  The project ID to run the API call under
 */
function list_inspect_templates(string $callingProjectId): void
{
    // Instantiate a client.
    $dlp = new DlpServiceClient();

    $parent = "projects/$callingProjectId/locations/global";

    // Run request
    $listInspectTemplatesRequest = (new ListInspectTemplatesRequest())
        ->setParent($parent);
    $response = $dlp->listInspectTemplates($listInspectTemplatesRequest);

    // Print results
    $templates = $response->iterateAllElements();

    foreach ($templates as $template) {
        printf('Template %s' . PHP_EOL, $template->getName());
        printf('  Created: %s' . PHP_EOL, $template->getCreateTime()->getSeconds());
        printf('  Updated: %s' . PHP_EOL, $template->getUpdateTime()->getSeconds());
        printf('  Display Name: %s' . PHP_EOL, $template->getDisplayName());
        printf('  Description: %s' . PHP_EOL, $template->getDescription());

        $inspectConfig = $template->getInspectConfig();
        if ($inspectConfig === null) {
            print('  No inspect config.' . PHP_EOL);
        } else {
            printf('  Minimum likelihood: %s' . PHP_EOL, $inspectConfig->getMinLikelihood());
            printf('  Include quotes: %s' . PHP_EOL, $inspectConfig->getIncludeQuote());
            $limits = $inspectConfig->getLimits();
            printf('  Max findings per request: %s' . PHP_EOL, $limits->getMaxFindingsPerRequest());
        }
    }
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

import google.cloud.dlp


def list_inspect_templates(project: str) -> None:
    """Lists all Data Loss Prevention API inspect templates.
    Args:
        project: The Google Cloud project id to use as a parent resource.
    Returns:
        None; the response from the API is printed to the terminal.
    """

    # Instantiate a client.
    dlp = google.cloud.dlp_v2.DlpServiceClient()

    # Convert the project id into a full resource id.
    parent = f"projects/{project}"

    # Call the API.
    response = dlp.list_inspect_templates(request={"parent": parent})

    for template in response:
        print(f"Template {template.name}:")
        if template.display_name:
            print(f"  Display Name: {template.display_name}")
        print(f"  Created: {template.create_time}")
        print(f"  Updated: {template.update_time}")

        config = template.inspect_config
        print(
            "  InfoTypes: {}".format(", ".join([it.name for it in config.info_types]))
        )
        print(f"  Minimum likelihood: {config.min_likelihood}")
        print(f"  Include quotes: {config.include_quote}")
        print(
            "  Max findings per request: {}".format(
                config.limits.max_findings_per_request
            )
        )

REST

Use one of the *.*.list methods:

• organizations.inspectTemplates.list
• projects.inspectTemplates.list

Copy an inspection template to the global region

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Sensitive Data Protection Configuration page.

   Go to Configuration

2. On the toolbar, click the project selector and select the project that contains the inspection template that you want to use.

3. Click the Templates tab, and then click the Inspect subtab.

4. Click the ID of the template that you want to use.

5. On the Inspection template details page, click Copy.

6. On the Create template page, in the Resource location list, select Global (any region).

7. Click Create.

The template is copied to the global region.

Copy an inspection template to another project

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Sensitive Data Protection Configuration page.

   Go to Configuration

2. On the toolbar, click the project selector and select the project that contains the inspection template that you want to use.

3. Click the Templates tab, and then click the Inspect subtab.

4. Click the ID of the template that you want to use.

5. On the Inspection template details page, click Copy.

6. Select the project that you want to copy the inspection template to.

   The Create template page reloads in the project that you selected.

7. Click Create.

The template is created in the project that you selected.

Delete inspection templates

To delete an inspection template:

Console

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Configuration page of Sensitive Data Protection.

   Go to Configuration

2. Select the project that contains the inspection template that you want to delete.

3. Click the Templates tab. The console displays a list of all templates for the current project.

4. In the Actions column for the template you want to delete, click the more actions menu (displayed as three dots arranged vertically) , and then click Delete.

Alternatively, from the list of templates, click the name of the template you want to delete. On the template's detail page, click Delete.

C#

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

using Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2;
using System;

public class InspectTemplateDelete
{
    public static object Delete(string projectId, string templateName)
    {
        var client = DlpServiceClient.Create();

        var request = new DeleteInspectTemplateRequest
        {
            Name = templateName
        };

        client.DeleteInspectTemplate(request);
        Console.WriteLine($"Successfully deleted template {templateName}.");

        return templateName;
    }
}

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	dlp "cloud.google.com/go/dlp/apiv2"
	"cloud.google.com/go/dlp/apiv2/dlppb"
)

// deleteInspectTemplate deletes the given template.
func deleteInspectTemplate(w io.Writer, templateID string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// templateID := "my-template"

	ctx := context.Background()

	client, err := dlp.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("dlp.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	req := &dlppb.DeleteInspectTemplateRequest{
		Name: templateID,
	}

	if err := client.DeleteInspectTemplate(ctx, req); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("DeleteInspectTemplate: %w", err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Successfully deleted inspect template %v", templateID)
	return nil
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

import com.google.cloud.dlp.v2.DlpServiceClient;
import com.google.privacy.dlp.v2.DeleteInspectTemplateRequest;
import java.io.IOException;

class TemplatesDelete {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    String templateId = "your-template-id";
    deleteInspectTemplate(projectId, templateId);
  }

  // Delete an existing template
  public static void deleteInspectTemplate(String projectId, String templateId) throws IOException {
    // Construct the template name to be deleted
    String templateName = String.format("projects/%s/inspectTemplates/%s", projectId, templateId);

    // Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
    // once, and can be reused for multiple requests. After completing all of your requests, call
    // the "close" method on the client to safely clean up any remaining background resources.
    try (DlpServiceClient dlpServiceClient = DlpServiceClient.create()) {

      // Create delete template request to be sent by the client
      DeleteInspectTemplateRequest request =
          DeleteInspectTemplateRequest.newBuilder().setName(templateName).build();

      // Send the request with the client
      dlpServiceClient.deleteInspectTemplate(request);
      System.out.printf("Deleted template: %s\n", templateName);
    }
  }
}

Node.js

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

// Imports the Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention library
const DLP = require('@google-cloud/dlp');

// Instantiates a client
const dlp = new DLP.DlpServiceClient();

// The project ID to run the API call under
// const projectId = 'my-project';

// The name of the template to delete
// Parent project ID is automatically extracted from this parameter
// const templateName = 'projects/YOUR_PROJECT_ID/inspectTemplates/#####'
async function deleteInspectTemplate() {
  // Construct template-deletion request
  const request = {
    name: templateName,
  };

  // Run template-deletion request
  await dlp.deleteInspectTemplate(request);
  console.log(`Successfully deleted template ${templateName}.`);
}

deleteInspectTemplate();

PHP

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

use Google\Cloud\Dlp\V2\Client\DlpServiceClient;
use Google\Cloud\Dlp\V2\DeleteInspectTemplateRequest;

/**
 * Delete a DLP inspection configuration template.
 *
 * @param string $callingProjectId  The project ID to run the API call under
 * @param string $templateId        The name of the template to delete
 */
function delete_inspect_template(
    string $callingProjectId,
    string $templateId
): void {
    // Instantiate a client.
    $dlp = new DlpServiceClient();

    // Run template deletion request
    $templateName = "projects/$callingProjectId/locations/global/inspectTemplates/$templateId";
    $deleteInspectTemplateRequest = (new DeleteInspectTemplateRequest())
        ->setName($templateName);
    $dlp->deleteInspectTemplate($deleteInspectTemplateRequest);

    // Print results
    printf('Successfully deleted template %s' . PHP_EOL, $templateName);
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection client libraries.

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

import google.cloud.dlp


def delete_inspect_template(project: str, template_id: str) -> None:
    """Deletes a Data Loss Prevention API template.
    Args:
        project: The id of the Google Cloud project which owns the template.
        template_id: The id of the template to delete.
    Returns:
        None; the response from the API is printed to the terminal.
    """

    # Instantiate a client.
    dlp = google.cloud.dlp_v2.DlpServiceClient()

    # Convert the project id into a full resource id.
    parent = f"projects/{project}"

    # Combine the template id with the parent id.
    template_resource = f"{parent}/inspectTemplates/{template_id}"

    # Call the API.
    dlp.delete_inspect_template(request={"name": template_resource})

    print(f"Template {template_resource} successfully deleted.")

REST

Use one of the *.*.delete methods:

• organizations.inspectTemplates.delete
• projects.inspectTemplates.delete

With each *.*.delete method, you include the resource name of the template to be deleted.