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bug: from_service_account_json fails without GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS env var set

See original GitHub issue

pypinfo-96fad88c6384.json

{
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": "pypinfo-167519",
  "private_key_id": "96fad88c63844bd52d6aa14806a07ee04f68f756",
  "private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----...redacted...-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
  "client_email": "moa-379@pypinfo-167519.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
  "client_id": "109462256829445067003",
  "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
  "token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
  "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
  "client_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/robot/v1/metadata/x509/moa-379%40pypinfo-167519.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
}

Ofek@Ofek-PC ~ $ from google.cloud.bigquery import Client                                                                                          
Ofek@Ofek-PC ~ $ client = Client.from_service_account_json(r'C:\Users\Ofek\AppData\Local\creds\pypinfo-96fad88c6384.json')                         
xonsh: To log full traceback to a file set: $XONSH_TRACEBACK_LOGFILE = <filename>                                                                  
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                 
  File "C:\Users\Ofek\Desktop\q\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\xonsh\__amalgam__.py", line 14826, in default                                         
    run_compiled_code(code, self.ctx, None, 'single')                                                                                              
  File "C:\Users\Ofek\Desktop\q\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\xonsh\__amalgam__.py", line 2085, in run_compiled_code                                
    func(code, glb, loc)                                                                                                                           
  File "<xonsh-code>", line 1, in <module>                                                                                                         
  File "C:\Users\Ofek\Desktop\q\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\google\cloud\client.py", line 71, in from_service_account_json                        
    return cls(*args, **kwargs)                                                                                                                    
  File "C:\Users\Ofek\Desktop\q\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\google\cloud\bigquery\client.py", line 83, in __init__                                
    project=project, credentials=credentials, _http=_http)                                                                                         
  File "C:\Users\Ofek\Desktop\q\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\google\cloud\client.py", line 211, in __init__                                        
    _ClientProjectMixin.__init__(self, project=project)                                                                                            
  File "C:\Users\Ofek\Desktop\q\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\google\cloud\client.py", line 167, in __init__                                        
    project = self._determine_default(project)                                                                                                     
  File "C:\Users\Ofek\Desktop\q\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\google\cloud\client.py", line 180, in _determine_default                              
    return _determine_default_project(project)                                                                                                     
  File "C:\Users\Ofek\Desktop\q\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\google\cloud\_helpers.py", line 181, in _determine_default_project                    
    _, project = google.auth.default()                                                                                                             
  File "C:\Users\Ofek\Desktop\q\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\google\auth\_default.py", line 282, in default                                        
    raise exceptions.DefaultCredentialsError(_HELP_MESSAGE)                                                                                        
google.auth.exceptions.DefaultCredentialsError: Could not automatically determine credentials. Please set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS or        
explicitly create credential and re-run the application. For more                                                                                  
information, please see                                                                                                                            
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/application-default-credentials.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:8 (8 by maintainers)

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dhermescommented, May 16, 2017

@ofek Yeah unfortunately that’s the best you can do for now. I’ll try to send a legit fix for #1883 tomorrow.

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ofekcommented, May 16, 2017

@dhermes Oh, I see. Thanks! I suppose I’ll just parse the file for project id myself to pass to from_service_account_json.

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