protoc-gen-bq-schema

protoc-gen-bq-schema is a plugin for ProtocolBuffer compiler. It converts messages written in .proto format into schema files in JSON for BigQuery. So you can reuse existing data definitions in .proto for BigQuery with this plugin.

Installation

go get github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/protoc-gen-bq-schema

Usage

protoc --bq-schema_out=path/to/outdir foo.proto

protoc and protoc-gen-bq-schema commands must be found in $PATH.

The generated JSON schema files are suffixed with .schema and their base names are named after their package names and bq_table_name options.

If you do not already have the standard google protobuf libraries in your proto_path, you'll need to specify them directly on the command line (and potentially need to copy bq_schema.proto into a proto_path directory as well), like this:

protoc --bq-schema_out=path/to/out/dir foo.proto --proto_path=. --proto_path=<path_to_google_proto_folder>/src

Example

Suppose that we have the following foo.proto.

syntax = "proto2";
package foo;
import "bq_table.proto";
import "bq_field.proto";

message Bar {
  option (gen_bq_schema.bigquery_opts).table_name = "bar_table";

  message Nested {
    repeated int32 a = 1;
  }

  // Description of field a -- this is an int32
  required int32 a = 1;

  // Nested b structure
  optional Nested b = 2;

  // Repeated c string
  repeated string c = 3;

  optional bool d = 4 [(gen_bq_schema.bigquery).ignore = true];

  // TIMESTAMP (uint64 in proto) - required in BigQuery
  optional uint64 e = 5 [
    (gen_bq_schema.bigquery) = {
      require: true
      type_override: 'TIMESTAMP'
    }
  ];
}

message Baz {
  required int32 a = 1;
}

protoc --bq-schema_out=. foo.proto will generate files named foo/bar_table.schema and foo/foo_table_without_comments.schema. The message foo.Baz is ignored because it doesn't have option gen_bq_schema.bigquery_opts. The message foo.Foo will be processed without comments because it has option (gen_bq_schema.bigquery_opts).skip_comments = true.

License

protoc-gen-bq-schema is licensed under the Apache License version 2.0. This is not an official Google product.