Load an Avro file

Load an Avro file from Cloud Storage into a new table.

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Go

Before trying this sample, follow theGo setup instructions in theBigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see theBigQueryGo API reference documentation.

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, seeSet up authentication for client libraries.

import("context""fmt""cloud.google.com/go/bigquery")// importAvro demonstrates loading Apache Avro data from Cloud Storage into a table.funcimportAvro(projectID,datasetID,tableIDstring)error{// projectID := "my-project-id"// datasetID := "mydataset"// tableID := "mytable"ctx:=context.Background()client,err:=bigquery.NewClient(ctx,projectID)iferr!=nil{returnfmt.Errorf("bigquery.NewClient: %w",err)}deferclient.Close()gcsRef:=bigquery.NewGCSReference("gs://cloud-samples-data/bigquery/us-states/us-states.avro")gcsRef.SourceFormat=bigquery.Avroloader:=client.Dataset(datasetID).Table(tableID).LoaderFrom(gcsRef)job,err:=loader.Run(ctx)iferr!=nil{returnerr}status,err:=job.Wait(ctx)iferr!=nil{returnerr}ifstatus.Err()!=nil{returnfmt.Errorf("job completed with error: %w",status.Err())}returnnil}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow theJava setup instructions in theBigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see theBigQueryJava API reference documentation.

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, seeSet up authentication for client libraries.

importcom.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery;importcom.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryException;importcom.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryOptions;importcom.google.cloud.bigquery.FormatOptions;importcom.google.cloud.bigquery.Job;importcom.google.cloud.bigquery.JobInfo;importcom.google.cloud.bigquery.LoadJobConfiguration;importcom.google.cloud.bigquery.TableId;// Sample to load Avro data from Cloud Storage into a new BigQuery tablepublicclassLoadAvroFromGcs{publicstaticvoidmain(String[]args){// TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.StringdatasetName="MY_DATASET_NAME";StringtableName="MY_TABLE_NAME";StringsourceUri="gs://cloud-samples-data/bigquery/us-states/us-states.avro";loadAvroFromGcs(datasetName,tableName,sourceUri);}publicstaticvoidloadAvroFromGcs(StringdatasetName,StringtableName,StringsourceUri){try{// Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created// once, and can be reused for multiple requests.BigQuerybigquery=BigQueryOptions.getDefaultInstance().getService();TableIdtableId=TableId.of(datasetName,tableName);LoadJobConfigurationloadConfig=LoadJobConfiguration.of(tableId,sourceUri,FormatOptions.avro());// Load data from a GCS Avro file into the tableJobjob=bigquery.create(JobInfo.of(loadConfig));// Blocks until this load table job completes its execution, either failing or succeeding.job=job.waitFor();if(job.isDone()){System.out.println("Avro from GCS successfully loaded in a table");}else{System.out.println("BigQuery was unable to load into the table due to an error:"+job.getStatus().getError());}}catch(BigQueryException|InterruptedExceptione){System.out.println("Column not added during load append \n"+e.toString());}}}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow theNode.js setup instructions in theBigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see theBigQueryNode.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, seeSet up authentication for client libraries.

// Import the Google Cloud client librariesconst{BigQuery}=require('@google-cloud/bigquery');const{Storage}=require('@google-cloud/storage');// Instantiate clientsconstbigquery=newBigQuery();conststorage=newStorage();/** * This sample loads the Avro file at * https://storage.googleapis.com/cloud-samples-data/bigquery/us-states/us-states.avro * * TODO(developer): Replace the following lines with the path to your file. */constbucketName='cloud-samples-data';constfilename='bigquery/us-states/us-states.avro';asyncfunctionloadTableGCSAvro(){// Imports a GCS file into a table with Avro source format./**   * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.   */// const datasetId = 'my_dataset';// const tableId = 'us_states';// Configure the load job. For full list of options, see:// https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/rest/v2/Job#JobConfigurationLoadconstjobConfigurationLoad={sourceFormat:'AVRO',};// Load data from a Google Cloud Storage file into the tableconst[job]=awaitbigquery.dataset(datasetId).table(tableId).load(storage.bucket(bucketName).file(filename),jobConfigurationLoad);// load() waits for the job to finishconsole.log(`Job${job.id} completed.`);}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow thePython setup instructions in theBigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see theBigQueryPython API reference documentation.

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, seeSet up authentication for client libraries.

fromgoogle.cloudimportbigquery# Construct a BigQuery client object.client=bigquery.Client()# TODO(developer): Set table_id to the ID of the table to create.# table_id = "your-project.your_dataset.your_table_namejob_config=bigquery.LoadJobConfig(source_format=bigquery.SourceFormat.AVRO)uri="gs://cloud-samples-data/bigquery/us-states/us-states.avro"load_job=client.load_table_from_uri(uri,table_id,job_config=job_config)# Make an API request.load_job.result()# Waits for the job to complete.destination_table=client.get_table(table_id)print("Loaded{} rows.".format(destination_table.num_rows))

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