Table Admin API

After creating an Instance, you can interact with individual tables, groups of tables or column families within a table.

List Tables

If you want a comprehensive list of all existing tables in a instance, make a ListTables API request with Instance.list_tables():

>>> instance.list_tables()
[<google.cloud.bigtable.table.Table at 0x7ff6a1de8f50>,
 <google.cloud.bigtable.table.Table at 0x7ff6a1de8350>]

Table Factory

To create a Table object:

table = instance.table(table_id)

Even if this Table already has been created with the API, you’ll want this object to use as a parent of a ColumnFamily or