Google Cloud PHP shared dependency, providing functionality useful to all components. Client - Class Metadata (1.60.0)

Reference documentation and code samples for the Google Cloud PHP shared dependency, providing functionality useful to all components. Client class Metadata.

A library for accessing the Google Compute Engine (GCE) metadata.

The metadata is available from Google Compute Engine instances and App Engine Managed VMs instances.

Example:

use Google\Cloud\Core\Compute\Metadata;

$metadata = new Metadata();
$projectId = $metadata->getProjectId();

// It is easy to get any metadata from a project.
$val = $metadata->getProjectMetadata($key);

Namespace

Google \ Cloud \ Core \ Compute

Methods

__construct

Parameter
Name	Description
`reader`	`Metadata\Readers\ReaderInterface` [optional] A metadata reader implementation.

setReader

Replace the default reader implementation

Parameter
Name	Description
`reader`	`Metadata\Readers\ReaderInterface` The reader implementation

get

Fetch a metadata item by its path

Example:

$projectId = $metadata->get('project/project-id');

Parameter
Name	Description
`path`	`string` The path of the item to retrieve.

getProjectId

Detect and return the project ID

Example:

$projectId = $metadata->getProjectId();

Returns
Type	Description
`string`

getNumericProjectId

Detect and return the numeric project ID

Example:

$projectId = $metadata->getNumericProjectId();

Returns
Type	Description
`string`

getProjectMetadata

Fetch an item from the project metadata

Example:

$foo = $metadata->getProjectMetadata('foo');

Parameter
Name	Description
`key`	`string` The metadata key

Returns
Type	Description
`string`

getInstanceMetadata

Fetch an item from the instance metadata

Example:

$foo = $metadata->getInstanceMetadata('foo');

Parameter
Name	Description
`key`	`string` The instance metadata key

Returns
Type	Description
`string`