bigquery: set user-agent

[stephenplusplus]

From @kwent on October 6, 2017 7:19

Hi,

I'm trying to override the user-agent used by biquery.

I browsed the code but i don't see any obvious way to do it.

Could you walk me or is it something which would needs to be implemented ?

Regards

Copied from original issue: googleapis/google-cloud-node#2659

[stephenplusplus]

The User-Agent cannot be overridden. It identifies the library @google-cloud/bigquery to the API servers. What is the reason you would need to change it?

[stephenplusplus]

From @kwent on October 6, 2017 20:54

Hi @stephenplusplus,

In order for Google to obtain usage insights while participating to the Google Cloud Technology Partners (https://cloud.google.com/partners/), they ask us to modify the User Agent compliant with RFC
(https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.5.3) matching our product name/version ...

Suggested format
"<prod_name>/ver (GPN:<company name>; <other comments>) <other prod>/ver "*
Example
"Product_A/1.1 (GPN:Partner_ABC; staging) Product_B/1.3
Google­HTTP­Java­Client/1.20.0"

We currently use in our product the bigquery nodejs library and are trying to figure out how could we make this happen.

Regards

[stephenplusplus]

I see now, thank you for explaining.

@lukesneeringer we currently write the U-A string ourselves, without allowing user input. How would you like us to address this issue?