There are a few small bugs in the Cloud Bigtable emulator that we are working around. The bugs are:

Filters:

• bigtable: block_all() filter not supported by emulator? google-cloud-go#839
• bigtable: row_sample() filter not supported by emulator? google-cloud-go#840
• bigtable: apply_label_transformer() not supported in the emulator? google-cloud-go#841
• bigtable: is the condition() filter supported by the emulator? google-cloud-go#842
• bigtable: is the interleave() filter supported by the emulator? google-cloud-go#843

ReadRows:

• Emulator sends wrong response for empty RowSet google-cloud-go#958

Snapshots:

• Bigtable emulator crashes on CreateSnapshot google-cloud-go#1135

Table IAM:

• bigtable/bttest: support Table IAM operations in the emulator google-cloud-go#1918

Instance Admin:

• Cloud Bigtable emulator for instances google-cloud-go#1069

As those bugs clear we should remove the workarounds from the code.