Dataflow- dynamic create disposition Apache Beam

Question

I want to dynamically choose from Create Disposition options depending on the arguments. In the the DataflowPipelineOptions I am accepting load type in a ValueProvider via arguments. However I am not able to get the string from the ValueProvider to decide on what create disposition option to use.

withCreateDisposition(BigQueryIO.Write.CreateDisposition.CREATE_IF_NEEDED)

I want 'CREATE_IF_NEEDED' to be dynamic. I want to replace this with something like this. Note following is just a pseudocode. I am looking for solution here.

create_disp = options.getLoad()
withCreateDisposition(create_disp 

Answer 1

You can pass a program argument representing createDisposition

Program argument (CREATE_NEVER or CREATE_IF_NEEDED):

--bqCreateDisposition=CREATE_NEVER

In the Option class in Java , you can pass a field as Enum (there is a default value in this case with CREATE_IF_NEEDED):

public interface MyOptions extends PipelineOptions {

    @Description("BQ create disposition")
    @Default
    @Enum("CREATE_IF_NEEDED")
    BigQueryIO.Write.CreateDisposition getBqCreateDisposition();

    void setBqCreateDisposition(BigQueryIO.Write.CreateDisposition value);
}