I've created a service account using the Google API Console and wish to use this service account with the Google BigQuery CLI (bq) tool.
I've been using the command line tool to successfully access the BigQuery service using my valid OAuth2 credentials in ~/.bigquery.v2.token, however I can't seem to find any documentation on how to modify this file (or otherwise configure the tool) to use a service account instead.
Here is my current .bigquery.v2.token file
{
"_module": "oauth2client.client",
"_class": "OAuth2Credentials",
"access_token": "--my-access-token--",
"token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
"invalid": false,
"client_id": "--my-client-id--.apps.googleusercontent.com",
"id_token": null,
"client_secret": "--my-client-secret--",
"token_expiry": "2012-11-06T15:57:12Z",
"refresh_token": "--my-refresh-token--",
"user_agent": "bq/2.0"
}
My other file: ~/.bigqueryrc generally looks like this:
project_id = --my-project-id--
credential_file = ~/.bigquery.v2.token
I've tried setting the credential_file paramater to the .p12 private key file for my service account but with no luck, it gives me back the following error
******************************************************************
** No OAuth2 credentials found, beginning authorization process **
******************************************************************
And asks me to go to a link in my browser to set up my OAuth2 credentials again.
The command line tools' initial configuration option "init":
bq help init
displays no helpful information about how to set up this tool to use a service account.