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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Missing configuration for dryRun jobs causes NPE","articleBody":"A query job created with `dryRun = true` has no `configuration` field. The following is the response I get from [Jobs: insert](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/v2/jobs/insert).\n\n``` json\n{\n \"kind\": \"bigquery#job\",\n \"etag\": \"\\\"Bop49sEVg6UBKwr7tLdL8AavHaw/LRPbO11E3VlTAE5UxM2F_Mfu01M\\\"\",\n \"jobReference\": {\n  \"projectId\": \"gcloud-devel\"\n },\n \"status\": {\n  \"state\": \"DONE\"\n },\n \"statistics\": {\n  \"creationTime\": \"1452067884640\",\n  \"totalBytesProcessed\": \"26\",\n  \"query\": {\n   \"totalBytesProcessed\": \"26\",\n   \"totalBytesBilled\": \"0\",\n   \"cacheHit\": false\n  }\n }\n}\n```\n\nWhile if I create the same job with `dryRun = false` the configuration is present instead:\n\n``` json\n{\n \"kind\": \"bigquery#job\",\n \"etag\": \"\\\"Bop49sEVg6UBKwr7tLdL8AavHaw/OI0lGTx2GlKc0VoAAYS-fIXHWok\\\"\",\n \"id\": \"gcloud-devel:job_nixqXTMu-mS9U26Ixnxr9KZxCyc\",\n \"selfLink\": \"https://www.googleapis.com/bigquery/v2/projects/gcloud-devel/jobs/job_nixqXTMu-mS9U26Ixnxr9KZxCyc\",\n \"jobReference\": {\n  \"projectId\": \"gcloud-devel\",\n  \"jobId\": \"job_nixqXTMu-mS9U26Ixnxr9KZxCyc\"\n },\n \"configuration\": {\n  \"query\": {\n   \"query\": \"select StringField from gcloud_test_dataset_temp_6c127c49_9574_4e17_ad2b_8e85071997aa.testing_table\",\n   \"destinationTable\": {\n    \"projectId\": \"gcloud-devel\",\n    \"datasetId\": \"_6bb2fc157573f6bd0fed98f3b039c1e71f26d7d1\",\n    \"tableId\": \"anon5f489e91b602aaed3dc62a46d51ba3c070e5d03f\"\n   },\n   \"createDisposition\": \"CREATE_IF_NEEDED\",\n   \"writeDisposition\": \"WRITE_TRUNCATE\"\n  },\n  \"dryRun\": false\n },\n \"status\": {\n  \"state\": \"RUNNING\"\n },\n \"statistics\": {\n  \"creationTime\": \"1452070358348\",\n  \"startTime\": \"1452070358585\"\n },\n \"user_email\": \"...\"\n}\n```\n\nWhile this does not affect the functionality itself I was wondering whether configuration should be returned also for dry-run jobs for consistency? /cc @jcondit @jtigani\n\nFor what concerns `gcloud-java` the absence of a configuration causes a NPE to be thrown at [JobInfo:297](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-java/blob/master/gcloud-java-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/gcloud/bigquery/JobInfo.java#L297).\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/mziccard","@type":"Person","name":"mziccard"},"datePublished":"2016-01-06T09:24:34.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":9},"url":"https://github.com/525/google-cloud-java/issues/525"}