Google Cloud Spanner

Google Cloud Spanner Sessions API

Operations on database sessions

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POST /projects/{project}/instances/{instance}/databases/{database}/sessions Google Cloud Spanner Create a session #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Google Cloud Spanner Databases Sessions API
  description: The Cloud Spanner API provides programmatic access to Google Cloud Spanner, a globally distributed, strongly consistent relational database service. It enables management of instances, databases, sessions, and execution of SQL queries and DML statements with full ACID transaction support.
  version: v1
  contact:
    name: Google Cloud
    url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/reference/rest
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
servers:
- url: https://spanner.googleapis.com/v1
  description: Cloud Spanner API v1
tags:
- name: Sessions
  description: Operations on database sessions
paths:
  /projects/{project}/instances/{instance}/databases/{database}/sessions:
    post:
      tags:
      - Sessions
      summary: Google Cloud Spanner Create a session
      description: Creates a new session to be used for requests made with the Spanner API.
      operationId: createSession
      parameters:
      - name: project
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: instance
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: database
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Session created successfully
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Session'
      security:
      - oauth2:
        - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
        - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spanner.data
components:
  schemas:
    Session:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
        labels:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
        createTime:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        approximateLastUseTime:
          type: string
          format: date-time
  securitySchemes:
    oauth2:
      type: oauth2
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth
          tokenUrl: https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
          scopes:
            https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform: Full access to Cloud Platform
            https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spanner.admin: Administer Spanner databases
            https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spanner.data: View and manage Spanner data