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Google Cloud for Go

import "cloud.google.com/go"

Go packages for Google Cloud Platform services.

NOTE: These packages are under development, and may occasionally make backwards-incompatible changes.

NOTE: Github repo is a mirror of https://code.googlesource.com/gocloud.

News

September 8, 2016

• New clients for some of Google's Machine Learning APIs: Vision, Speech, and Natural Language.

• Preview version of a new Stackdriver Logging client in cloud.google.com/go/preview/logging. This client uses gRPC as its transport layer, and supports log reading, sinks and metrics. It will replace the current client at cloud.google.com/go/logging shortly.

Supported APIs

Google API	Status	Package
Datastore	beta	cloud.google.com/go/datastore
Storage	beta	cloud.google.com/go/storage
Pub/Sub	experimental	cloud.google.com/go/pubsub
Bigtable	beta	cloud.google.com/go/bigtable
BigQuery	experimental	cloud.google.com/go/bigquery
Logging	experimental	cloud.google.com/go/logging
Vision	experimental	cloud.google.com/go/vision
Language	experimental	cloud.google.com/go/language/apiv1beta1
Speech	experimental	cloud.google.com/go/speech/apiv1beta

Experimental status: the API is still being actively developed. As a result, it might change in backward-incompatible ways and is not recommended for production use.

Beta status: the API is largely complete, but still has outstanding features and bugs to be addressed. There may be minor backwards-incompatible changes where necessary.

Stable status: the API is mature and ready for production use. We will continue addressing bugs and feature requests.

Documentation and examples are available at https://godoc.org/cloud.google.com/go

Visit or join the google-api-go-announce group for updates on these packages.

Go Versions Supported

We support the two most recent major versions of Go. If Google App Engine uses an older version, we support that as well. You can see which versions are currently supported by looking at the lines following go: in .travis.yml.

Authorization

By default, each API will use Google Application Default Credentials for authorization credentials used in calling the API endpoints. This will allow your application to run in many environments without requiring explicit configuration.

To authorize using a JSON key file, pass option.WithServiceAccountFile to the NewClient function of the desired package. For example:

client, err := storage.NewClient(ctx, option.WithServiceAccountFile("path/to/keyfile.json"))

You can exert more control over authorization by using the golang.org/x/oauth2 package to create an oauth2.TokenSource. Then pass option.WithTokenSource to the NewClient function:

tokenSource := ...
client, err := storage.NewClient(ctx, option.WithTokenSource(tokenSource))

Cloud Datastore

• About Cloud Datastore
• Activating the API for your project
• API documentation
• Go client documentation
• Complete sample program

Preview

First create a datastore.Client to use throughout your application:

client, err := datastore.NewClient(ctx, "my-project-id")
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}

Then use that client to interact with the API:

type Post struct {
	Title       string
	Body        string `datastore:",noindex"`
	PublishedAt time.Time
}
keys := []*datastore.Key{
	datastore.NewKey(ctx, "Post", "post1", 0, nil),
	datastore.NewKey(ctx, "Post", "post2", 0, nil),
}
posts := []*Post{
	{Title: "Post 1", Body: "...", PublishedAt: time.Now()},
	{Title: "Post 2", Body: "...", PublishedAt: time.Now()},
}
if _, err := client.PutMulti(ctx, keys, posts); err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}

Cloud Storage

• About Cloud Storage
• API documentation
• Go client documentation
• Complete sample programs

Preview

First create a storage.Client to use throughout your application:

client, err := storage.NewClient(ctx)
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}

// Read the object1 from bucket.
rc, err := client.Bucket("bucket").Object("object1").NewReader(ctx)
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}
defer rc.Close()
body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(rc)
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}

Cloud Pub/Sub

• About Cloud Pubsub
• API documentation
• Go client documentation
• Complete sample programs

Preview

First create a pubsub.Client to use throughout your application:

client, err := pubsub.NewClient(ctx, "project-id")
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}

// Publish "hello world" on topic1.
topic := client.Topic("topic1")
msgIDs, err := topic.Publish(ctx, &pubsub.Message{
	Data: []byte("hello world"),
})
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}

// Create an iterator to pull messages via subscription1.
it, err := client.Subscription("subscription1").Pull(ctx)
if err != nil {
	log.Println(err)
}
defer it.Stop()

// Consume N messages from the iterator.
for i := 0; i < N; i++ {
	msg, err := it.Next()
	if err == pubsub.Done {
		break
	}
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to retrieve message: %v", err)
	}

	fmt.Printf("Message %d: %s\n", i, msg.Data)
	msg.Done(true) // Acknowledge that we've consumed the message.
}

Cloud BigQuery

• About Cloud BigQuery
• API documentation
• Go client documentation
• Complete sample programs

Stackdriver Logging

• About Stackdriver Logging
• API documentation
• Go client documentation
• Complete sample programs

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Please, see the CONTRIBUTING document for details. We're using Gerrit for our code reviews. Please don't open pull requests against this repo, new pull requests will be automatically closed.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms. See Contributor Code of Conduct for more information.

Documentation

Overview

Package cloud is the root of the packages used to access Google Cloud Services. See https://godoc.org/cloud.google.com/go for a full list of sub-packages.

This package documents how to authorize and authenticate the sub packages.

Example (ApplicationDefaultCredentials)

package main

import (
	"cloud.google.com/go/datastore"
	"golang.org/x/net/context"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()
	// Use Google Application Default Credentials to authorize and authenticate the client.
	// More information about Application Default Credentials and how to enable is at
	// https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/application-default-credentials.
	//
	// This is the recommended way of authorizing and authenticating.
	//
	// Note: The example uses the datastore client, but the same steps apply to
	// the other client libraries underneath this package.
	client, err := datastore.NewClient(ctx, "project-id")
	if err != nil {
		// TODO: handle error.
	}
	// Use the client.
	_ = client
}

Example (ServiceAccountFile)

package main

import (
	"cloud.google.com/go/datastore"
	"golang.org/x/net/context"
	"google.golang.org/api/option"
)

func main() {
	// Warning: The better way to use service accounts is to set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
	// and use the Application Default Credentials.
	ctx := context.Background()
	// Use a JSON key file associated with a Google service account to
	// authenticate and authorize.
	// Go to https://console.developers.google.com/permissions/serviceaccounts to create
	// and download a service account key for your project.
	//
	// Note: The example uses the datastore client, but the same steps apply to
	// the other client libraries underneath this package.
	client, err := datastore.NewClient(ctx,
		"project-id",
		option.WithServiceAccountFile("/path/to/service-account-key.json"))
	if err != nil {
		// TODO: handle error.
	}
	// Use the client.
	_ = client
}