Read Bigtable column family from the API

google-beta/resource_bigtable_table.go

@@ -130,14 +130,15 @@ func resourceBigtableTableRead(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error {
 	defer c.Close()
 
 	name := d.Id()
-	_, err = c.TableInfo(ctx, name)
+	table, err := c.TableInfo(ctx, name)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("[WARN] Removing %s because it's gone", name)
 		d.SetId("")
 		return fmt.Errorf("Error retrieving table. Could not find %s in %s. %s", name, instanceName, err)
 	}
 
 	d.Set("project", project)
+	d.Set("column_family", flattenColumnFamily(table.Families))
 
 	return nil
 }
@@ -169,3 +170,15 @@ func resourceBigtableTableDestroy(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) erro
 
 	return nil
 }
+
+func flattenColumnFamily(families []string) []map[string]interface{} {
+	result := make([]map[string]interface{}, 0, len(families))
+
+	for _, f := range families {
+		data := make(map[string]interface{})
+		data["family"] = f
+		result = append(result, data)
+	}
+
+	return result
+}

website/docs/r/bigtable_table.html.markdown

@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ layout: "google"
 page_title: "Google: google_bigtable_table"
 sidebar_current: "docs-google-bigtable-table"
 description: |-
-  Creates a Google Bigtable table inside an instance.
+  Creates a Google Cloud Bigtable table inside an instance.
 ---
 
 # google_bigtable_table
 
-Creates a Google Bigtable table inside an instance. For more information see
+Creates a Google Cloud Bigtable table inside an instance. For more information see
 [the official documentation](https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/) and
 [API](https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/go/reference).
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ The following arguments are supported:
 
 `column_family` supports the following arguments:
 
-* `family` - (Optional) Creates a new column family in a table.
+* `family` - (Optional) The name of the column family.
 
 ## Attributes Reference