Bigquery add columns to table schema

Question

I am trying to add new column to BigQuery existing table. I have tried bq command tool and API approach. I get following error when making call to Tables.update().

Answer 1

Example using the BigQuery Node JS API:

const fieldDefinition = {
    name: 'nestedColumn',
    type: 'RECORD',
    mode: 'REPEATED',
    fields: [
        {name: 'id', type: 'INTEGER', mode: 'NULLABLE'},
        {name: 'amount', type: 'INTEGER', mode: 'NULLABLE'},
    ],
}; 

const table = bigQuery.dataset('dataset1').table('source_table_name');
const metaDataResult = await table.getMetadata();
const metaData = metaDataResult[0];

const fields = metaData.schema.fields;
fields.push(fieldDefinition);

await table.setMetadata({schema: {fields}});