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Google Data Studio (Looker) Operators

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Google Data Studio (Looker) Operators

Data Studio (Looker) is a business intelligence software and big data analytics platform that helps you explore, analyze and share real-time business analytics easily.

Data Studio (Looker) has a Public API and associated SDK clients in different languages, which allow programmatic access to the Data Studio platform.

For more information visit Looker API documentation <https://docs.looker.com/reference/api-and-integration>_.

Prerequisite Tasks

To use these operators, you must do a few things:

  • Install API libraries via pip.

.. code-block:: bash

pip install 'apache-airflow[google]'

Detailed information is available for :doc:Installation <apache-airflow:installation/index>.

  • Setup a Data Studio connection in Airflow. You can check :doc:apache-airflow:howto/connection and :doc:/connections/gcp_looker

Start a PDT materialization job

To submit a PDT materialization job to Data Studio you need to provide a model and view name.

The job configuration can be submitted in synchronous (blocking) mode by using: :class:~airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.looker.LookerStartPdtBuildOperator.

The executable example below still imports the compatibility name LookerStartPdtBuildOperator. The preferred alias for new code is DataStudioStartPdtBuildOperator.

.. exampleinclude:: /../../google/tests/system/google/cloud/looker/example_looker.py :language: python :dedent: 4 :start-after: [START how_to_cloud_looker_start_pdt_build_operator] :end-before: [END how_to_cloud_looker_start_pdt_build_operator]

Alternatively, the job configuration can be submitted in asynchronous mode by using: :class:~airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.looker.LookerStartPdtBuildOperator and :class:~airflow.providers.google.cloud.sensors.looker.LookerCheckPdtBuildSensor.

The executable example below still imports the compatibility name LookerStartPdtBuildOperator. The preferred alias for new code is DataStudioStartPdtBuildOperator.

.. exampleinclude:: /../../google/tests/system/google/cloud/looker/example_looker.py :language: python :dedent: 4 :start-after: [START cloud_looker_async_start_pdt_sensor] :end-before: [END cloud_looker_async_start_pdt_sensor]

There are more arguments to provide in the jobs than the examples show. For the complete list of arguments take a look at Data Studio operator arguments at :class:airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.looker.LookerStartPdtBuildOperator