Get a service account

Get a Cloud Storage service account using projects.GetServiceAccount (). This is used by Pub/Sub notifications and CMEK KMS keys.

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For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

• Get the Cloud Storage service agent

Code sample

C++

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation.

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

namespace gcs = ::google::cloud::storage;
using ::google::cloud::StatusOr;
[](gcs::Client client) {
  StatusOr<gcs::ServiceAccount> account = client.GetServiceAccount();
  if (!account) throw std::move(account).status();

  std::cout << "The service account details are " << *account << "\n";
}

C#

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation.

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

using Google.Cloud.Storage.V1;
using System;

public class GetStorageServiceAccountSample
{
	public string GetStorageServiceAccount(string projectId = "your-project-id")
	{
		var storage = StorageClient.Create();

		var serviceAccountEmail = storage.GetStorageServiceAccountEmail(projectId);

		Console.WriteLine($"The GCS service account for project {projectId} is: {serviceAccountEmail}.");
		return serviceAccountEmail;
	}
}

Go

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Go API reference documentation.

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

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

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

// getServiceAccount gets the default Cloud Storage service account email address.
func getServiceAccount(w io.Writer, projectID string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"

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

	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, time.Second*10)
	defer cancel()

	serviceAccount, err := client.ServiceAccount(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("ServiceAccount: %w", err)
	}

	fmt.Fprintf(w, "The GCS service account for project %v is: %v\n", projectID, serviceAccount)
	return nil
}

Java

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation.

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

import com.google.cloud.storage.ServiceAccount;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Storage;
import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageOptions;

public class GetServiceAccount {
  public static void getServiceAccount(String projectId) {
    // The ID of your GCP project
    // String projectId = "your-project-id";

    Storage storage = StorageOptions.newBuilder().setProjectId(projectId).build().getService();
    ServiceAccount serviceAccount = storage.getServiceAccount(projectId);
    System.out.println(
        "The GCS service account for project " + projectId + " is: " + serviceAccount.getEmail());
  }
}

Node.js

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation.

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

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// The ID of your GCP project
// const projectId = 'your-project-id';

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

// Creates a client
const storage = new Storage({
  projectId,
});

async function getServiceAccount() {
  const [serviceAccount] = await storage.getServiceAccount();
  console.log(
    `The GCS service account for project ${projectId} is: ${serviceAccount.emailAddress}`
  );
}

getServiceAccount().catch(console.error);

PHP

For more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation.

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

use Google\Cloud\Storage\StorageClient;

/**
 * Get the current service account email.
 *
 * @param string $projectId The ID of your Google Cloud Platform project.
 *        (e.g. 'my-project-id')
 */
function get_service_account(string $projectId): void
{
    $storage = new StorageClient([
        'projectId' => $projectId,
    ]);

    $serviceAccountEmail = $storage->getServiceAccount();

    printf('The GCS service account email for project %s is %s', $projectId, $serviceAccountEmail);
}

Python

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation.

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

from google.cloud import storage


def get_service_account():
    """Get the service account email"""
    storage_client = storage.Client()

    email = storage_client.get_service_account_email()
    print(
        f"The GCS service account for project {storage_client.project} is: {email} "
    )

Ruby

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation.

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

def get_service_account
  require "google/cloud/storage"

  storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
  email = storage.service_account_email

  puts "The GCS service account for project #{storage.project_id} is: #{email}"
end

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