Paginate a BigQuery result set

Uses a page token to paginate a BigQuery result set and loop through a page of results at a time.

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Code sample

YAML

# Use a page token to loop through a page of results at a time when
# querying a BigQuery dataset larger than the Workflows memory limit
# This workflow queries a public dataset to determine the most common
# names in the US between 1910 and 2013
main:
  params: [input]
  steps:
    - init:
        assign:
          - pageToken: null
    - startQuery:
        call: googleapis.bigquery.v2.jobs.insert
        args:
          projectId: ${sys.get_env("GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT_ID")}
          body:
            configuration:
              query:
                useLegacySql: false
                # Remove LIMIT from the query to iterate through all results
                query: SELECT name, SUM(number) AS total FROM `bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_2013` GROUP BY name ORDER BY total DESC LIMIT 50
        result: query
    - getPage:
        call: googleapis.bigquery.v2.jobs.getQueryResults
        args:
          projectId: ${sys.get_env("GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT_ID")}
          jobId: ${query.jobReference.jobId}
          maxResults: 10
          pageToken: ${pageToken}
        result: page
    - processPage:
        for:
          value: row
          in: ${page.rows}
          steps:
            - processRow:
                call: sys.log
                args:
                  data: ${row}
    - checkIfDone:
        switch:
          - condition: ${"pageToken" in page and page.pageToken != ""}
            assign:
              - pageToken: ${page.pageToken}
            next: getPage

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