feat: add Client.delete_job_metadata method to remove job metadata

google/cloud/bigquery/client.py

@@ -1453,6 +1453,77 @@ def delete_model(
             if not not_found_ok:
                 raise
 
+    def delete_job_metadata(
+        self,
+        job_id,
+        project=None,
+        location=None,
+        retry=DEFAULT_RETRY,
+        timeout=None,
+        not_found_ok=False,
+    ):
+        """[Beta] Delete job metadata from job history.
+
+        Note: This does not stop a running job. Use
+        :func:`~google.cloud.bigquery.client.Client.cancel_job` instead.
+
+        Args:
+            job_id (Union[ \
+                str, \
+                google.cloud.bigquery.job.LoadJob, \
+                google.cloud.bigquery.job.CopyJob, \
+                google.cloud.bigquery.job.ExtractJob, \
+                google.cloud.bigquery.job.QueryJob \
+            ]): Job identifier.
+
+        Keyword Arguments:
+            project (Optional[str]):
+                ID of the project which owns the job (defaults to the client's project).
+            location (Optional[str]):
+                Location where the job was run. Ignored if ``job_id`` is a job
+                object.
+            retry (Optional[google.api_core.retry.Retry]):
+                How to retry the RPC.
+            timeout (Optional[float]):
+                The number of seconds to wait for the underlying HTTP transport
+                before using ``retry``.
+            not_found_ok (Optional[bool]):
+                Defaults to ``False``. If ``True``, ignore "not found" errors
+                when deleting the job.
+        """
+        extra_params = {}
+
+        project, location, job_id = _extract_job_reference(
+            job_id, project=project, location=location
+        )
+
+        if project is None:
+            project = self.project
+
+        if location is None:
+            location = self.location
+
+        # Location is always required for jobs.delete()
+        extra_params["location"] = location
+
+        path = f"/projects/{project}/jobs/{job_id}/delete"
+
+        span_attributes = {"path": path, "job_id": job_id, "location": location}
+
+        try:
+            self._call_api(
+                retry,
+                span_name="BigQuery.deleteJob",
+                span_attributes=span_attributes,
+                method="DELETE",
+                path=path,
+                query_params=extra_params,
+                timeout=timeout,
+            )
+        except google.api_core.exceptions.NotFound:
+            if not not_found_ok:
+                raise
+
     def delete_routine(
         self, routine, retry=DEFAULT_RETRY, timeout=None, not_found_ok=False
     ):

tests/system/test_client.py

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import time
 import unittest
 import uuid
+from typing import Optional
 
 import psutil
 import pytest
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@
 from google.cloud import bigquery_v2
 from google.cloud.bigquery.dataset import Dataset
 from google.cloud.bigquery.dataset import DatasetReference
+from google.cloud.bigquery.schema import SchemaField
 from google.cloud.bigquery.table import Table
 from google.cloud._helpers import UTC
 from google.cloud.bigquery import dbapi, enums
@@ -123,7 +125,7 @@ def _has_rows(result):
 
 
 def _make_dataset_id(prefix):
-    return "%s%s" % (prefix, unique_resource_id())
+    return f"python_bigquery_tests_system_{prefix}{unique_resource_id()}"
 
 
 def _load_json_schema(filename="schema.json"):
@@ -142,7 +144,7 @@ class Config(object):
     global state.
     """
 
-    CLIENT = None
+    CLIENT: Optional[bigquery.Client] = None
     CURSOR = None
     DATASET = None
 
@@ -430,6 +432,22 @@ def test_delete_dataset_delete_contents_false(self):
         with self.assertRaises(exceptions.BadRequest):
             Config.CLIENT.delete_dataset(dataset)
 
+    def test_delete_job_metadata(self):
+        dataset_id = _make_dataset_id("us_east1")
+        self.temp_dataset(dataset_id, location="us-east1")
+        full_table_id = f"{Config.CLIENT.project}.{dataset_id}.test_delete_job_metadata"
+        table = Table(full_table_id, schema=[SchemaField("col", "STRING")])
+        Config.CLIENT.create_table(table)
+        query_job: bigquery.QueryJob = Config.CLIENT.query(
+            f"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `{full_table_id}`", location="us-east1",
+        )
+        query_job.result()
+        self.assertIsNotNone(Config.CLIENT.get_job(query_job))
+
+        Config.CLIENT.delete_job_metadata(query_job)
+        with self.assertRaises(NotFound):
+            Config.CLIENT.get_job(query_job)
+
     def test_get_table_w_public_dataset(self):
         public = "bigquery-public-data"
         dataset_id = "samples"

tests/unit/test_client.py

@@ -2498,6 +2498,66 @@ def test_update_table_delete_property(self):
         self.assertEqual(req[1]["data"], sent)
         self.assertIsNone(table3.description)
 
+    def test_delete_job_metadata_not_found(self):
+        creds = _make_credentials()
+        client = self._make_one("client-proj", creds, location="client-loc")
+        conn = client._connection = make_connection(
+            google.api_core.exceptions.NotFound("job not found"),
+            google.api_core.exceptions.NotFound("job not found"),
+        )
+
+        with self.assertRaises(google.api_core.exceptions.NotFound):
+            client.delete_job_metadata("my-job")
+
+        conn.api_request.reset_mock()
+        client.delete_job_metadata("my-job", not_found_ok=True)
+
+        conn.api_request.assert_called_once_with(
+            method="DELETE",
+            path="/projects/client-proj/jobs/my-job/delete",
+            query_params={"location": "client-loc"},
+            timeout=None,
+        )
+
+    def test_delete_job_metadata_with_id(self):
+        creds = _make_credentials()
+        client = self._make_one(self.PROJECT, creds)
+        conn = client._connection = make_connection({})
+
+        client.delete_job_metadata("my-job", project="param-proj", location="param-loc")
+
+        conn.api_request.assert_called_once_with(
+            method="DELETE",
+            path="/projects/param-proj/jobs/my-job/delete",
+            query_params={"location": "param-loc"},
+            timeout=None,
+        )
+
+    def test_delete_job_metadata_with_resource(self):
+        from google.cloud.bigquery.job import QueryJob
+
+        query_resource = {
+            "jobReference": {
+                "projectId": "job-based-proj",
+                "jobId": "query_job",
+                "location": "us-east1",
+            },
+            "configuration": {"query": {}},
+        }
+        creds = _make_credentials()
+        client = self._make_one(self.PROJECT, creds)
+        conn = client._connection = make_connection(query_resource)
+        job_from_resource = QueryJob.from_api_repr(query_resource, client)
+
+        client.delete_job_metadata(job_from_resource)
+
+        conn.api_request.assert_called_once_with(
+            method="DELETE",
+            path="/projects/job-based-proj/jobs/query_job/delete",
+            query_params={"location": "us-east1"},
+            timeout=None,
+        )
+
     def test_delete_model(self):
         from google.cloud.bigquery.model import Model