This document explains how to delete Single Message Transforms (SMTs) from an existing Pub/Sub subscription.
To delete subscription SMTs, you can use the Google Cloud console, the Google Cloud CLI, the client library, or the Pub/Sub API.
Required roles and permissions
To get the permissions that
you need to delete subscription SMTs,
ask your administrator to grant you the Pub/Sub Editor
( roles/pubsub.editor
)
IAM role on your project.
For more information about granting roles, see Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations
.
This predefined role contains the permissions required to delete subscription SMTs. To see the exact permissions that are required, expand the Required permissionssection:
Required permissions
The following permissions are required to delete subscription SMTs:
- Grant the delete a subscription permission on the subscription:
pubsub.subscriptions.delete - Grant the view a subscription permission on the project. This permission is only required if you are using the Google Cloud console:
pubsub.subscriptions.view
You might also be able to get these permissions with custom roles or other predefined roles .
You can configure access control at the project level and at the individual resource level.
Delete subscription SMTs
To delete subscription SMTs, follow these steps:
Console
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In the Google Cloud console, go to the Pub/Sub Subscriptionspage.
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Click the subscription for which you want to delete an SMT.
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In the subscription details page, click Edit .
The Transforms tab lists all the SMTs that are attached to the subscription.
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Click the delete button for the SMT you would like to delete.
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Click Update .
gcloud
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In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.
At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.
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This command deletes all SMTs associated with the specified subscription.
Run the
gcloud pubsub subscriptions updatecommand with the--clear-message-transformsflag:gcloud pubsub subscriptions update SUBSCRIPTION_ID \ --clear-message-transforms
Replace the following:
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SUBSCRIPTION_ID : The ID or name of the subscription you want to update.
To instead remove a single SMT, refer to Update subscription SMTs and create a new
message-transforms-filethat excludes the SMT you wish to delete. -

