# Dataflow API . projects . locations . sql

## Instance Methods

Validates a GoogleSQL query for Cloud Dataflow syntax. Will always

### Method Details

`validate(projectId, location, query=None, x__xgafv=None)`

    Validates a GoogleSQL query for Cloud Dataflow syntax. Will always
    confirm the given query parses correctly, and if able to look up
    schema information from DataCatalog, will validate that the query
    analyzes properly as well.

    Args:
      projectId: string, Required. The ID of the Cloud Platform project that the job belongs to. (required)
      location: string, The [regional endpoint]
    (https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/concepts/regional-endpoints) to
    which to direct the request. (required)
      query: string, The sql query to validate.
      x__xgafv: string, V1 error format.
        Allowed values
          1 - v1 error format
          2 - v2 error format

    Returns:
      An object of the form:

        { # Response to the validation request.
        "errorMessage": "A String", # Will be empty if validation succeeds.
      }