Get the job state

Get the job state for a specific transcoding job.

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

• Transcode a video with the Transcoder API

Code sample

C#

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

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

using Google.Cloud.Video.Transcoder.V1;

public class GetJobStateSample
{
    public Job.Types.ProcessingState GetJobState(string projectId, string location, string jobId)
    {
        // Create the client.
        TranscoderServiceClient client = TranscoderServiceClient.Create();

        // Build the job name.
        JobName jobName = JobName.FromProjectLocationJob(projectId, location, jobId);

        // Call the API.
        Job job = client.GetJob(jobName);

        // Return the result.
        return job.State;
    }
}

Go

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

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

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	transcoder "cloud.google.com/go/video/transcoder/apiv1"
	"cloud.google.com/go/video/transcoder/apiv1/transcoderpb"
)

// getJobState gets the state for a previously-created job. See
// https://cloud.google.com/transcoder/docs/how-to/jobs#check_job_status for
// more information.
func getJobState(w io.Writer, projectID string, location string, jobID string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// location := "us-central1"
	// jobID := "my-job-id"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := transcoder.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	req := &transcoderpb.GetJobRequest{
		Name: fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/locations/%s/jobs/%s", projectID, location, jobID),
	}

	response, err := client.GetJob(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("GetJob: %w", err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Job state: %v\n----\nJob failure reason:%v\n", response.State, response.Error)
	return nil
}

Java

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

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

import com.google.cloud.video.transcoder.v1.GetJobRequest;
import com.google.cloud.video.transcoder.v1.Job;
import com.google.cloud.video.transcoder.v1.JobName;
import com.google.cloud.video.transcoder.v1.TranscoderServiceClient;
import java.io.IOException;

public class GetJobState {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "my-project-id";
    String location = "us-central1";
    String jobId = "my-job-id";

    getJobState(projectId, location, jobId);
  }

  // Gets the state of a job.
  public static void getJobState(String projectId, String location, String jobId)
      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.
    try (TranscoderServiceClient transcoderServiceClient = TranscoderServiceClient.create()) {
      JobName jobName =
          JobName.newBuilder().setProject(projectId).setLocation(location).setJob(jobId).build();
      GetJobRequest getJobRequest = GetJobRequest.newBuilder().setName(jobName.toString()).build();

      // Send the get job request and process the response.
      Job job = transcoderServiceClient.getJob(getJobRequest);
      System.out.println("Job state: " + job.getState());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

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

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

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
 */
// projectId = 'my-project-id';
// location = 'us-central1';
// jobId = 'my-job-id';

// Imports the Transcoder library
const {TranscoderServiceClient} =
  require('@google-cloud/video-transcoder').v1;

// Instantiates a client
const transcoderServiceClient = new TranscoderServiceClient();

async function getJob() {
  // Construct request
  const request = {
    name: transcoderServiceClient.jobPath(projectId, location, jobId),
  };
  const [response] = await transcoderServiceClient.getJob(request);
  console.log(`Job state: ${response.state}`);
}

getJob();

PHP

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

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

use Google\Cloud\Video\Transcoder\V1\Client\TranscoderServiceClient;
use Google\Cloud\Video\Transcoder\V1\GetJobRequest;
use Google\Cloud\Video\Transcoder\V1\Job;

/**
 * Gets a Transcoder job's state.
 *
 * @param string $projectId The ID of your Google Cloud Platform project.
 * @param string $location The location of the job.
 * @param string $jobId The job ID.
 */
function get_job_state($projectId, $location, $jobId)
{
    // Instantiate a client.
    $transcoderServiceClient = new TranscoderServiceClient();

    $formattedName = $transcoderServiceClient->jobName($projectId, $location, $jobId);
    $request = (new GetJobRequest())
        ->setName($formattedName);
    $job = $transcoderServiceClient->getJob($request);

    // Print job state.
    printf('Job state: %s' . PHP_EOL, Job\ProcessingState::name($job->getState()));
}

Python

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

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

import argparse

from google.cloud.video import transcoder_v1
from google.cloud.video.transcoder_v1.services.transcoder_service import (
    TranscoderServiceClient,
)


def get_job_state(
    project_id: str,
    location: str,
    job_id: str,
) -> transcoder_v1.types.resources.Job:
    """Gets a job's state.

    Args:
        project_id: The GCP project ID.
        location: The location this job is in.
        job_id: The job ID.

    Returns:
        The job resource.
    """

    client = TranscoderServiceClient()

    name = f"projects/{project_id}/locations/{location}/jobs/{job_id}"
    response = client.get_job(name=name)

    print(f"Job state: {str(response.state.name)}")
    return response

Ruby

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

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

# project_id = "YOUR-GOOGLE-CLOUD-PROJECT"  # (e.g. "my-project")
# location   = "YOUR-JOB-LOCATION"  # (e.g. "us-central1")
# job_id     = "YOUR-JOB-ID"  # (e.g. "c82c295b-3f5a-47df-8562-938a89d40fd0")

# Require the Transcoder client library.
require "google/cloud/video/transcoder"

# Create a Transcoder client.
client = Google::Cloud::Video::Transcoder.transcoder_service

# Build the resource name of the job.
name = client.job_path project: project_id, location: location, job: job_id

# Get the job.
job = client.get_job name: name

# Print the job state.
puts "Job state: #{job.state}"

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