Update a description

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	"cloud.google.com/go/bigquery"
)

// updateDatasetDescription demonstrates how the Description metadata of a dataset can
// be read and modified.
func updateDatasetDescription(projectID, datasetID string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// datasetID := "mydataset"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := bigquery.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("bigquery.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	ds := client.Dataset(datasetID)
	meta, err := ds.Metadata(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	update := bigquery.DatasetMetadataToUpdate{
		Description: "Updated Description.",
	}
	if _, err = ds.Update(ctx, update, meta.ETag); err != nil {
		return err
	}
	return nil
}

import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryException;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryOptions;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.Dataset;

public class UpdateDatasetDescription {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String datasetName = "MY_DATASET_NAME";
    String newDescription = "this is the new dataset description";
    updateDatasetDescription(datasetName, newDescription);
  }

  public static void updateDatasetDescription(String datasetName, String newDescription) {
    try {
      // Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
      // once, and can be reused for multiple requests.
      BigQuery bigquery = BigQueryOptions.getDefaultInstance().getService();

      Dataset dataset = bigquery.getDataset(datasetName);
      bigquery.update(dataset.toBuilder().setDescription(newDescription).build());
      System.out.println("Dataset description updated successfully to " + newDescription);
    } catch (BigQueryException e) {
      System.out.println("Dataset description was not updated \n" + e.toString());
    }
  }
}

// Import the Google Cloud client library
const {BigQuery} = require('@google-cloud/bigquery');
const bigquery = new BigQuery();

async function updateDatasetDescription() {
  // Updates a dataset's description.

  // Retreive current dataset metadata
  const dataset = bigquery.dataset(datasetId);
  const [metadata] = await dataset.getMetadata();

  // Set new dataset description
  const description = 'New dataset description.';
  metadata.description = description;

  const [apiResponse] = await dataset.setMetadata(metadata);
  const newDescription = apiResponse.description;

  console.log(`${datasetId} description: ${newDescription}`);
}

from google.cloud import bigquery

# Construct a BigQuery client object.
client = bigquery.Client()

# TODO(developer): Set dataset_id to the ID of the dataset to fetch.
# dataset_id = 'your-project.your_dataset'

dataset = client.get_dataset(dataset_id)  # Make an API request.
dataset.description = "Updated description."
dataset = client.update_dataset(dataset, ["description"])  # Make an API request.

full_dataset_id = "{}.{}".format(dataset.project, dataset.dataset_id)
print(
    "Updated dataset '{}' with description '{}'.".format(
        full_dataset_id, dataset.description
    )
)