BigQuery tables.insert 404 Error - google-bigquery

Question

In the BigQuery documents it says that tables.insert creates a new empty table (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/v2/tables/insert)
But when I try to test that endpoint within the page I get a 404 Table not found error.
Request:
POST https://www.googleapis.com/bigquery/v2/projects/myProject/datasets/temp/tables?key={YOUR_API_KEY}
{
"expirationTime": "1452627594",
"tableReference": {
"tableId": "myTable"
}
}
Response:
404 OK
- Show headers -
{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "global",
"reason": "notFound",
"message": "Not found: Table myProject.myTable"
}
],
"code": 404,
"message": "Not found: Table myProject:temp.myTable"
}
}
I am sure there is a reasonable explanation of the 404 error but I couldn't understood it since I am trying to create that table, it should be ok if doesn't exist yet?
Thank you

Answer 1

Info you provided in Request Body is not enough for BigQuery to create new table
At least - add schema - something like below (just as an example):
{
"schema": {
"fields": [
{
"name": "page_event",
"mode": "repeated",
"type": "RECORD",
"fields": [
{
"name": "id",
"type": "STRING"
},
{
"name": "description",
"type": "STRING"
}
]
}
]
}
}
See more in Tables resource for what you can supply in Request Body
Below is an example with above dummy schema that should work:
POST https://www.googleapis.com/bigquery/v2/projects/myProject/datasets/temp/tables?key={YOUR_API_KEY}
{
"schema": {
"fields": [
{
"name": "page_event",
"mode": "repeated",
"type": "RECORD",
"fields": [
{
"name": "id",
"type": "STRING"
},
{
"name": "description",
"type": "STRING"
}
]
}
]
},
"expirationTime": "1452560523000",
"tableReference": {
"tableId": "myTable"
}
}
EDIT:
And the reason why it didn't worked with "expirationTime": "1452627594" from your question is because it points to the past