From 07c70f0292f9212f0c968cd5c9206e8b0409c0da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: HemangChothani <50404902+HemangChothani@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:53:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add method api_repr for table list item (#299)

---
 google/cloud/bigquery/table.py |  8 ++++++++
 tests/unit/test_table.py       | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/google/cloud/bigquery/table.py b/google/cloud/bigquery/table.py
index 01e8815da..2214d0172 100644
--- a/google/cloud/bigquery/table.py
+++ b/google/cloud/bigquery/table.py
@@ -1071,6 +1071,14 @@ def to_bqstorage(self):
         """
         return self.reference.to_bqstorage()
 
+    def to_api_repr(self):
+        """Constructs the API resource of this table
+
+        Returns:
+            Dict[str, object]: Table represented as an API resource
+        """
+        return copy.deepcopy(self._properties)
+
 
 def _row_from_mapping(mapping, schema):
     """Convert a mapping to a row tuple using the schema.
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_table.py b/tests/unit/test_table.py
index fe17d2852..376605521 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_table.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_table.py
@@ -1433,6 +1433,17 @@ def test_labels_update_in_place(self):
         labels["foo"] = "bar"  # update in place
         self.assertEqual(table.labels, {"foo": "bar"})
 
+    def test_to_api_repr(self):
+        resource = {
+            "tableReference": {
+                "projectId": "testproject",
+                "datasetId": "testdataset",
+                "tableId": "testtable",
+            }
+        }
+        table = self._make_one(resource)
+        self.assertEqual(table.to_api_repr(), resource)
+
 
 class TestRow(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_row(self):