Bigtable stores data in massively scalable tables, each of which is a sorted key/value map. A Cloud Bigtable table is identified by the instance it is contained in and its table_id.
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structure.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ccode\u003eTableResource\u003c/code\u003e class offers constructors to create table objects using either an \u003ccode\u003eInstanceResource\u003c/code\u003e and a \u003ccode\u003etable_id\u003c/code\u003e, or by directly using \u003ccode\u003eproject_id\u003c/code\u003e, \u003ccode\u003einstance_id\u003c/code\u003e, and \u003ccode\u003etable_id\u003c/code\u003e strings.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eKey methods of the \u003ccode\u003eTableResource\u003c/code\u003e class include \u003ccode\u003einstance()\u003c/code\u003e to retrieve the containing \u003ccode\u003eInstanceResource\u003c/code\u003e, \u003ccode\u003etable_id()\u003c/code\u003e to get the table identifier, and \u003ccode\u003eFullName()\u003c/code\u003e to obtain the fully qualified table name.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe application bears the responsibility for providing valid project, instance and table id information as the class doesn't validate table name components until used in an RPC request.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Class TableResource (2.12.0)\n\nVersion 2.12.0keyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [2.42.0-rc (latest)](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.41.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.41.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.40.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.40.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.39.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.39.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.38.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.38.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.37.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.37.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.36.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.36.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.35.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.35.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- 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[2.24.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.24.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.23.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.23.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.22.1](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.22.1/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.21.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.21.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.20.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.20.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.19.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.19.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.18.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.17.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.17.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.16.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.15.1](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.15.1/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.14.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.13.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.13.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource)\n- [2.11.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.11.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource) \nThis class identifies a Cloud Bigtable [Table](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1Table). \nBigtable stores data in massively scalable tables, each of which is a sorted key/value map. A Cloud Bigtable table is identified by the instance it is contained in and its `table_id`.\n| **Note:** This class makes no effort to validate the components of the table name. It is the application's responsibility to provide valid project, instance, and table ids. Passing invalid values will not be checked until the table name is used in a RPC to Bigtable.\n\n###### See Also\n\n\u003chttps://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/overview\u003e for an overview of the Cloud Bigtable data model.\n\nConstructors\n------------\n\n### TableResource(InstanceResource, std::string)\n\nConstructs a [TableResource](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource) object identified by the given `instance` and `table_id`.\n\n### TableResource(std::string, std::string, std::string)\n\nConstructs a [TableResource](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource) object identified by the given IDs. \nThis is equivalent to first constructing an [`InstanceResource`](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1InstanceResource) from the given `project_id` and `instance_id` arguments and then calling the [`TableResource(InstanceResource, std::string)`](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource#classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1TableResource_1ace8acb472881eb3b6cfa1621f0b7c208) constructor.\n\nFunctions\n---------\n\n### instance() const\n\nReturns the [`InstanceResource`](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1InstanceResource) containing this table.\n\n### table_id() const\n\nReturns the [Table](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1Table) ID.\n\n### FullName() const\n\nReturns the fully qualified table name as a string of the form: \"projects/"]]