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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"view.query property not exposed by Bigquery API","articleBody":"\r\n```\r\nOS X 10\r\nPython 2.7.10\r\nName: google-cloud Version: 0.24.0\r\n```\r\n\r\nTo reproduce, make a view. In our case it was existing.\r\n`! bq show --format=json nytdata:audit_et.audit_ab_alloc_view`\r\n\r\nNote that the property view.query is present in the json:\r\n\r\n```\r\n{\"kind\":\"bigquery#table\",\"creationTime\":\"1471555852846\",\r\n...\r\n\"view\":{\"query\":\"with date_range a ... REDACTED ...\",\r\n\"useLegacySql\":false},\"type\":\"VIEW\",\"id\":\"nytdata:audit_et.audit_ab_alloc_view\",\"selfLink\":\"https://www.googleapis.com/bigquery/v2/projects/nytdata/datasets/audit_et/tables/audit_ab_alloc_view\",\"\r\n...\r\n}\r\n```\r\n\r\nBut if I try to get it from the API, nothing:\r\n\r\n```\r\nfrom google.cloud import bigquery\r\n\r\nproject=\"nytdata\"\r\ndataset=\"audit_et\"\r\ntable=\"audit_ab_alloc_view\"\r\n\r\nbigquery_client = bigquery.Client(project=project)\r\ndataset_temp = bigquery_client.dataset(dataset)\r\nt=dataset_temp.table(table)\r\nt=dataset_temp.table(u'audit_ab_alloc_view')\r\n\r\nt.exists()\r\n\u003e\u003e True\r\n\r\nt.view_query == None\r\n\u003e\u003e True\r\n```","author":{"url":"https://github.com/nicku33","@type":"Person","name":"nicku33"},"datePublished":"2017-08-08T16:57:24.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/3754/google-cloud-python/issues/3754"}