Get job properties

Retrieve the properties of a job for a given job ID.

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

• Manage jobs

Code sample

Go

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

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

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

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

// getJobInfo demonstrates retrieval of a job, which can be used to monitor
// completion or print metadata about the job.
func getJobInfo(w io.Writer, projectID, jobID string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// jobID := "my-job-id"
	ctx := context.Background()

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

	job, err := client.JobFromID(ctx, jobID)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	status := job.LastStatus()
	state := "Unknown"
	switch status.State {
	case bigquery.Pending:
		state = "Pending"
	case bigquery.Running:
		state = "Running"
	case bigquery.Done:
		state = "Done"
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Job %s was created %v and is in state %s\n",
		jobID, status.Statistics.CreationTime, state)
	return nil
}

Java

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

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

import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryException;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryOptions;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.Job;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.JobId;

// Sample to get a job
public class GetJob {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String jobName = "MY_JOB_NAME";
    getJob(jobName);
  }

  public static void getJob(String jobName) {
    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.
      BigQuery bigquery = BigQueryOptions.getDefaultInstance().getService();

      JobId jobId = JobId.of(jobName);
      Job job = bigquery.getJob(jobId);
      System.out.println("Job retrieved successfully");
    } catch (BigQueryException e) {
      System.out.println("Job not retrieved. \n" + e.toString());
    }
  }
}

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