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Automate updating if BigQuery JSON

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, php
Domain
ci-cd, cloud

Research direction

Start with BigQuery/src/Connection/ServiceDefinition/bigquery-v2.json and inspect the repository's existing GitHub Actions and owlbot.py workflow. Determine how the discovery JSON can be refreshed and how owlbot can submit the update PR; done means a repeatable job opens a PR when the upstream definition changes.

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Description

api: bigquery type: feature request

The BigQuery handwritten libraries use the discovery JSON file to make calls to the BigQuery REST API. However, this is manually updated, and as a result usually does not happen frequently enough.

We can create a GitHub Actions job to submit a PR which keep this up-to-date. This would be a huge help. This may be something we could do using owlbot.py, even though no code is copied, in order to take advantage of owlbot PR submission.

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