Google bigtable: Writing / reading - Conditonal updates

 Sept. 14, 2021

Introduction

I like to take some time to read C# code related to BigTable writing / reading. 

Conditionally writing a value

The following code samples demonstrate how to send a conditional write request, which checks a row for a condition and then, depending on the result, writes data to that row. This type of write makes a CheckAndMutateRow API request.

using System;
using Google.Cloud.Bigtable.V2;
using Google.Cloud.Bigtable.Common.V2;

namespace Writes
{
    public class WriteConditional
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Check if a row has a certain value then mutate the row if it does.
        ///</summary>
        /// <param name="projectId">Your Google Cloud Project ID.</param>
        /// <param name="instanceId">Your Google Cloud Bigtable Instance ID.</param>
        /// <param name="tableId">Your Google Cloud Bigtable table ID.</param>
        public string writeConditional(
            string projectId = "YOUR-PROJECT-ID",
            string instanceId = "YOUR-INSTANCE-ID",
            string tableId = "YOUR-TABLE-ID")
        {
            BigtableClient bigtableClient = BigtableClient.Create();

            TableName tableName = new TableName(projectId, instanceId, tableId);
            BigtableByteString rowkey = new BigtableByteString("phone#4c410523#20190501");
            BigtableVersion timestamp = new BigtableVersion(DateTime.UtcNow);
            String COLUMN_FAMILY = "stats_summary";

            CheckAndMutateRowResponse checkAndMutateRowResponse = bigtableClient.CheckAndMutateRow(
                tableName,
                rowkey,
                RowFilters.Chain(
                    RowFilters.FamilyNameExact(COLUMN_FAMILY),
                    RowFilters.ColumnQualifierExact("os_build"),
                    RowFilters.ValueRegex("PQ2A\\..*")),
                Mutations.SetCell(COLUMN_FAMILY, "os_name", "android", timestamp));

            return $"Successfully updated row's os_name: {checkAndMutateRowResponse.PredicateMatched}";
        }
    }
}