As of April 20th, 2026, BigLake is now called Lakehouse for Apache Iceberg. BigLake metastore is now called the Lakehouse runtime catalog. Lakehouse APIs, client libraries, CLI commands, and IAM names remain unchanged and still reference BigLake.
Method: iceberg.v1.restcatalog.v1.projects.catalogs.namespaces.tables.create
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Creates a table in the namespace.
HTTP request
POST https://biglake.googleapis.com/iceberg/v1/restcatalog/v1/{parent=projects/*/catalogs/*/namespaces/*}/tables
The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.
Path parameters
| Parameters |
parent |
string
Required. The parent resource where this table will be created. Format: projects/{projectId}/catalogs/{catalogId}/namespaces/{namespace}
|
Request body
The request body contains data with the following structure:
| JSON representation |
{
"httpBody": {
object (HttpBody)
}
} |
| Fields |
httpBody |
object (HttpBody)
Required.
|
Response body
If successful, the response is a generic HTTP response whose format is defined by the method.
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/bigquery
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
For more information, see the Authentication Overview.
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Last updated 2026-04-21 UTC.
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