Seems like BigTableIO.Write can be run without validation [1]. Doesn't that
work for your use-case ?

- Cham

https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/bigquery/BigQueryIO.java#L1085



On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:38 AM Steve Niemitz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Would people be open to enhancing the BigtableIO sink to avoid checking if
> the table being written to exists in BigtableIO.Write.validate()?
>
> There are a couple reasons I would like to disable the check:
> - I would like to create the destination table as part of the flow, with
> the schema defined by data read from the source during the flow.
> - The machine that launches the flow may not even have the access needed
> (both network and IAM permission) to access Bigtable.
>
> Any thoughts?
>

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