How can I create a new view in bigquery using the python API?

Question

I have some code that automatically generates a bunch of different SQL queries that I would like to insert into the bigquery to generate views, though one of the issues that

Answer 1

Note: this changed a little bit with 0.28.0 of the library - see the following for further details: Google BigQuery: creating a view via Python google-cloud-bigquery version 0.27.0 vs. 0.28.0

my example function

# create a view via python
def create_view(dataset_name, view_name, sqlQuery, project=None):
    try:

        bigquery_client = bigquery.Client(project=project)
        dataset_ref = bigquery_client.dataset(dataset_name)
        table_ref = dataset_ref.table(view_name)
        table = Table(table_ref)
        table.view_query = sqlQuery
        table.view_use_legacy_sql = False
        bigquery_client.create_table(table)

        return True

    except Exception as e:
        errorStr = 'ERROR (create_view): ' + str(e)
        print(errorStr)
        raise