Airflow BigQueryOperator: how to save query result in a partitioned Table?

Question

I have a simple DAG

from airflow import DAG
from airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_operator import BigQueryOperator

with DAG(dag_id='my_dags.my_dag') as dag:

    start = DummyOperator(task_id='start')

    end = DummyOperator(task_id='end')
    sql = """
             SELECT *
             FROM 'another_dataset.another_table'
          """
    bq_query = BigQueryOperator(bql=sql,
                            destination_dataset_table='my_dataset.my_table20180524'),
                            task_id='bq_query',
                            bigquery_conn_id='my_bq_connection',
                            use_legacy_sql=False,
                            write_disposition='WRITE_TRUNCATE',
                            create_disposition='CREATE_IF_NEEDED',
                            query_params={})
    start >> bq_query >> end

When executing the bq_query task the SQL query gets saved in a sharded table. I want it to get saved in a daily partitioned table. In order to do so, I only changed destination_dataset_table to my_dataset.my_table$20180524. I got the error below when executing the bq_task:

Partitioning specification must be provided in order to create partitioned table

How can I specify to BigQuery to save query result to a daily partitioned table ? my first guess has been to use query_params in BigQueryOperator but I didn't find any example on how to use that parameter.

EDIT:

I'm using google-cloud==0.27.0 python client ... and it's the one used in Prod :(

Answer 1

You first need to create an Empty partitioned destination table. Follow instructions here: link to create an empty partitioned table

and then run below airflow pipeline again. You can try code:

import datetime
from airflow import DAG
from airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_operator import BigQueryOperator
today_date = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d")
table_name = 'my_dataset.my_table' + '$' + today_date
with DAG(dag_id='my_dags.my_dag') as dag:
    start = DummyOperator(task_id='start')
    end = DummyOperator(task_id='end')
    sql = """
         SELECT *
         FROM 'another_dataset.another_table'
          """
    bq_query = BigQueryOperator(bql=sql,
                        destination_dataset_table={{ params.t_name }}),
                        task_id='bq_query',
                        bigquery_conn_id='my_bq_connection',
                        use_legacy_sql=False,
                        write_disposition='WRITE_TRUNCATE',
                        create_disposition='CREATE_IF_NEEDED',
                        query_params={'t_name': table_name},
                        dag=dag
                        )
start >> bq_query >> end

So what I did is that I created a dynamic table name variable and passed to the BQ operator.