Create topic quickstart

Creates a topic.

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C++

Before trying this sample, follow the C++ setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C++ API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Pub/Sub, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

namespace pubsub = ::google::cloud::pubsub;
namespace pubsub_admin = ::google::cloud::pubsub_admin;
[](pubsub_admin::TopicAdminClient client, std::string project_id,
   std::string topic_id) {
  auto topic = client.CreateTopic(
      pubsub::Topic(std::move(project_id), std::move(topic_id)).FullName());
  // Note that kAlreadyExists is a possible error when the library retries.
  if (topic.status().code() == google::cloud::StatusCode::kAlreadyExists) {
    std::cout << "The topic already exists\n";
    return;
  }
  if (!topic) throw std::move(topic).status();

  std::cout << "The topic was successfully created: " << topic->DebugString()
            << "\n";
}

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Pub/Sub, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 


// Sample pubsub-quickstart creates a Google Cloud Pub/Sub topic.
package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"cloud.google.com/go/pubsub/v2"
	"cloud.google.com/go/pubsub/v2/apiv1/pubsubpb"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()

	// Sets your Google Cloud Platform project ID.
	projectID := "YOUR_PROJECT_ID"

	// Creates a client.
	client, err := pubsub.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to create client: %v", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	// Sets the id for the new topic.
	topicID := "my-topic"
	pbTopic := &pubsubpb.Topic{
		Name: fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/topics/%s", projectID, topicID),
	}

	// Creates the new topic.
	topic, err := client.TopicAdminClient.CreateTopic(ctx, pbTopic)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to create topic: %v", err)
	}

	fmt.Printf("Topic %v created.\n", topic)
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Pub/Sub, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 


import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.TopicAdminClient;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.Topic;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.TopicName;
import java.io.IOException;

public class CreateTopicExample {
  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    String topicId = "your-topic-id";

    createTopicExample(projectId, topicId);
  }

  public static void createTopicExample(String projectId, String topicId) throws IOException {
    try (TopicAdminClient topicAdminClient = TopicAdminClient.create()) {
      TopicName topicName = TopicName.of(projectId, topicId);
      Topic topic = topicAdminClient.createTopic(topicName);
      System.out.println("Created topic: " + topic.getName());
    }
  }
}

PHP

Before trying this sample, follow the PHP setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub PHP API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Pub/Sub, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

# Includes the autoloader for libraries installed with composer
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

# Imports the Google Cloud client library
use Google\Cloud\PubSub\PubSubClient;

# Your Google Cloud Platform project ID
$projectId = 'YOUR_PROJECT_ID';

# Instantiates a client
$pubsub = new PubSubClient([
    'projectId' => $projectId
]);

# The name for the new topic
$topicName = 'my-new-topic-2';

# Creates the new topic
$topic = $pubsub->createTopic($topicName);

echo 'Topic ' . $topic->name() . ' created.';

Ruby

Before trying this sample, follow the Ruby setup instructions in the Pub/Sub quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub Ruby API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Pub/Sub, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

# Imports the Google Cloud client library
require "google/cloud/pubsub"

# Instantiates a client
pubsub = Google::Cloud::PubSub.new
topic_admin = pubsub.topic_admin

# The name for the new topic
# topic_id = "your-topic-id"

# Creates the new topic
topic = topic_admin.create_topic name: pubsub.topic_path(topic_id)

puts "Topic #{topic.name} created."

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