Logging: parse entries created by bigquery_resource

client_logging.list_entries() on BigQuery log entries renders a list of ProtobufEntry objects.

Unfortunately there is no documentation on how to read (“unpack” ?) the payload_pb property, for instance to retrieve the jobId.

Request to extent the documentation beyond retrieving entries that were written to a logger, and include snippets on how-to parse protoPayload messages like those created by GCP services.

[yan-hic]

Not sure why it gets closed as what seems to be missing is the module compiled from proto, as per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50301632/using-python-to-query-gcp-stackdriver-logs

Instead of each of us compiling a python module for it, it would make sense to have a new google.cloud.audit package containing, at a minimum, the AuditLog module. After that, I agree @tseaver’s code makes it straightforward to parse.

[snarfed]

as a fully fleshed out example, here’s how i generated my own request_log_pb2.py file based on request_log.prototo parse google.appengine.logging.v1.RequestLog serialized protobufs: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59414384/186123. more background in #2572.

@yiga2 is right, though, Google should ideally maintain official versions of these Python protobuf bindings instead.