tf.contrib.cloud.BigtableClient

BigtableClient is the entrypoint for interacting with Cloud Bigtable in TF.

tf.contrib.cloud.BigtableClient(
    project_id, instance_id, connection_pool_size=None,
    max_receive_message_size=None
)

BigtableClient encapsulates a connection to Cloud Bigtable, and exposes the table method to open a Bigtable table.

Args
project_id	A string representing the GCP project id to connect to.
instance_id	A string representing the Bigtable instance to connect to.
connection_pool_size	(Optional.) A number representing the number of concurrent connections to the Cloud Bigtable service to make.
max_receive_message_size	(Optional.) The maximum bytes received in a single gRPC response.

Raises
ValueError	if the arguments are invalid (e.g. wrong type, or out of expected ranges (e.g. negative).)

Methods

table

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table(
    name, snapshot=None
)

Opens a table and returns a tf.contrib.bigtable.BigtableTable object.

Args
name	A tf.string tf.Tensor name of the table to open.
snapshot	Either a tf.string tf.Tensor snapshot id, or True to request the creation of a snapshot. (Note: currently unimplemented.)

Returns
A tf.contrib.bigtable.BigtableTable Python object representing the operations available on the table.