Required. The parent of the plugin instance resource. Format: projects/{project}/locations/{location}/plugins/{plugin}
Query parameters
Parameters
pluginInstanceId
string
Optional. The ID to use for the plugin instance, which will become the final component of the plugin instance's resource name. This field is optional.
If provided, the same will be used. The service will throw an error if the specified id is already used by another plugin instance in the plugin resource.
If not provided, a system generated id will be used.
This value should be 4-63 characters, and valid characters are /[a-z][A-Z][0-9]-_/.
Request body
The request body contains an instance of PluginInstance.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Operation.
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