Update a table's expiration time.

## Explore further


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

- [Manage logical views](https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/managing-views)
- [Manage tables](https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/managing-tables)

## Code sample

### Go


Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the
[BigQuery quickstart using
client libraries](https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/quickstarts/quickstart-client-libraries).


For more information, see the
[BigQuery Go API
reference documentation](https://godoc.org/cloud.google.com/go/bigquery).


To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials.
For more information, see

[Set up authentication for client libraries](https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/authentication#client-libs).

    import (
    	"context"
    	"fmt"
    	"time"

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

    // updateTableExpiration demonstrates setting the table expiration of a table to a specific point in time
    // in the future, at which time it will be deleted.
    func updateTableExpiration(projectID, datasetID, tableID string) error {
    	// projectID := "my-project-id"
    	// datasetID := "mydataset"
    	// tableID := "mytable"
    	ctx := context.Background()
    	client, err := bigquery.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
    	if err != nil {
    		return fmt.Errorf("bigquery.NewClient: %w", err)
    	}
    	defer client.Close()

    	tableRef := client.Dataset(datasetID).Table(tableID)
    	meta, err := tableRef.Metadata(ctx)
    	if err != nil {
    		return err
    	}
    	update := bigquery.https://docs.cloud.google.com/go/docs/reference/cloud.google.com/go/bigquery/latest/index.html#cloud_google_com_go_bigquery_TableMetadataToUpdate{
    		ExpirationTime: time.Now().Add(time.Duration(5*24) * time.Hour), // table expiration in 5 days.
    	}
    	if _, err = tableRef.Update(ctx, update, meta.ETag); err != nil {
    		return err
    	}
    	return nil
    }

### Java


Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the
[BigQuery quickstart using
client libraries](https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/quickstarts/quickstart-client-libraries).


For more information, see the
[BigQuery Java API
reference documentation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-bigquery/latest/overview).


To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials.
For more information, see

[Set up authentication for client libraries](https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/authentication#client-libs).

    import com.google.cloud.bigquery.https://docs.cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-bigquery/latest/com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery.html;
    import com.google.cloud.bigquery.https://docs.cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-bigquery/latest/com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryException.html;
    import com.google.cloud.bigquery.https://docs.cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-bigquery/latest/com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryOptions.html;
    import com.google.cloud.bigquery.https://docs.cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-biglake/latest/com.google.cloud.bigquery.biglake.v1.Table.html;
    import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

    public class UpdateTableExpiration {

      public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
        String datasetName = "MY_DATASET_NAME";
        String tableName = "MY_TABLE_NAME";
        // Update table expiration to one day.
        Long newExpiration =
            TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.https://docs.cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/latest/com.google.cloud.bigquery.storage.v1.ProtoSchemaConverter.html#com_google_cloud_bigquery_storage_v1_ProtoSchemaConverter_convert_com_google_protobuf_Descriptors_Descriptor_(1, TimeUnit.DAYS) + System.currentTimeMillis();
        updateTableExpiration(datasetName, tableName, newExpiration);
      }

      public static void updateTableExpiration(
          String datasetName, String tableName, Long newExpiration) {
        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.
          https://docs.cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-bigquery/latest/com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery.html bigquery = https://docs.cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-bigquery/latest/com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryOptions.html.getDefaultInstance().getService();

          https://docs.cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-biglake/latest/com.google.cloud.bigquery.biglake.v1.Table.html table = bigquery.https://docs.cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-bigquery/latest/com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery.html#com_google_cloud_bigquery_BigQuery_getTable_com_google_cloud_bigquery_TableId_com_google_cloud_bigquery_BigQuery_TableOption____(datasetName, tableName);
          bigquery.https://docs.cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-bigquery/latest/com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery.html#com_google_cloud_bigquery_BigQuery_update_com_google_cloud_bigquery_DatasetInfo_com_google_cloud_bigquery_BigQuery_DatasetOption____(table.toBuilder().setExpirationTime(newExpiration).build());

          System.out.println("Table expiration updated successfully to " + newExpiration);
        } catch (https://docs.cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-bigquery/latest/com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryException.html e) {
          System.out.println("Table expiration was not updated \n" + e.toString());
        }
      }
    }

### Python


Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the
[BigQuery quickstart using
client libraries](https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/quickstarts/quickstart-client-libraries).


For more information, see the
[BigQuery Python API
reference documentation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/bigquery/latest).


To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials.
For more information, see

[Set up authentication for client libraries](https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/authentication#client-libs).

    from google.cloud import https://docs.cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/bigquery/latest

    client = https://docs.cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/bigquery/latest.https://docs.cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/bigquery/latest/google.cloud.bigquery.client.Client.html()

    # TODO(dev): Change table_id to the full name of the table you want to update.
    table_id = "your-project.your_dataset.your_table_name"

    # TODO(dev): Set table to expire for desired days days from now.
    expiration = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) + datetime.timedelta(
        days=5
    )
    table = client.https://docs.cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/bigquery/latest/google.cloud.bigquery.client.Client.html#google_cloud_bigquery_client_Client_get_table(table_id)  # Make an API request.
    table.expires = expiration
    table = client.https://docs.cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/bigquery/latest/google.cloud.bigquery.client.Client.html#google_cloud_bigquery_client_Client_update_table(table, ["expires"])  # API request

    print(f"Updated {table_id}, expires {table.expires}.")

## What's next


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