Create clients

Create a client that can read, write, and run transactions.

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For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

• Getting started with Spanner in Go

Code sample

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for Spanner, see Spanner client libraries.

To authenticate to Spanner, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import (
	"context"
	"io"

	"cloud.google.com/go/spanner"
	database "cloud.google.com/go/spanner/admin/database/apiv1"
)

func createClients(w io.Writer, db string) error {
	ctx := context.Background()

	adminClient, err := database.NewDatabaseAdminClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer adminClient.Close()

	dataClient, err := spanner.NewClient(ctx, db)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer dataClient.Close()

	_ = adminClient
	_ = dataClient

	return nil
}

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