BigQuery: limit list_jobs sample to 10 most recent jobs (googleapis#5209)

tswast · crwilcox · commit 6f46cd7c9de7 · 2018-04-18T14:39:00.000-07:00
* BigQuery: limit job listing snippet to 10 results

Listing all jobs can take a very long time, especially on a project used
by CI which starts many jobs every test run.
diff --git a/docs/bigquery/snippets.py b/docs/bigquery/snippets.py
@@ -2003,11 +2003,8 @@ def test_client_list_jobs(client):
     # from google.cloud import bigquery
     # client = bigquery.Client(project='my_project')
 
-    # List all accessible jobs in a project
-    for job in client.list_jobs():  # API request(s)
-        print(job.job_id)
-
-    # Optionally, limit the results to 10 jobs
+    # List the 10 most recent jobs in reverse chronological order.
+    # Omit the max_results parameter to list jobs from the past 6 months.
     for job in client.list_jobs(max_results=10):  # API request(s)
         print(job.job_id)
     # [END bigquery_list_jobs]
