This page explains how to configure a Pub/Sub topic that you can useto receive job status updates from the Transcoder API.

Configure job status updates

To receive job status updates, do the following:

1. If you don't have an existing Pub/Sub topic, create a topic.To learn how to create a Pub/Sub topic, seeManaging topics and subscriptions.

2. Make sure to configure thepubsubDestinationfield in the job configuration.

   {"config":{"pubsubDestination":{"topic":"projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/my-topic-id"}}}

3. Create a job to enable theGoogle-managed Transcoder service account.

4. Find theservice-PROJECT_NUMBER@gcp-sa-transcoder.iam.gserviceaccount.comservice account in the Google Cloud console, wherePROJECT_NUMBER is the project number of the project you enabledthe Transcoder API in and you plan to create the feed from.

   1. In the Google Cloud console, go to theIAM page.

      Go to IAM

   2. Select theInclude Google-provided role grants checkbox.

5. Make sure the service account has thepubsub.topics.publish permissionenabled.

Job status reporting

Job status is reported once the job fails or finishes successfully. No otherstate changes are reported. Job status is reported using theJobResult messageformat:

ResourcePubSubMessage{job:{object(JobResult)}}JobResult{name:string;state:string;error:{object(Status)}}

For more information, refer to the following:

• Job state
• Job status
• Troubleshooting job errors