Starts asynchronous cancellation on a long-running operation. The server makes a best effort to cancel the operation, but success is not guaranteed. If the server doesn't support this method, it returns google.rpc.Code.UNIMPLEMENTED. Clients can use Operations.GetOperation or other methods to check whether the cancellation succeeded or whether the operation completed despite cancellation. On successful cancellation, the operation is not deleted; instead, it becomes an operation with an Operation.error value with a google.rpc.Status.code of 1, corresponding to Code.CANCELLED.
HTTP request
POST https://cloudchannel.googleapis.com/v1alpha1/{name=operations/**}:cancel
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-05-19 UTC."],[[["This API method initiates the cancellation of a long-running operation, with no guarantee of success."],["The HTTP request to cancel the operation is a POST request to a specific URL with a defined operation name."],["The request body for this operation must be empty, while a successful response will also be an empty JSON object."],["Authorization for this operation requires the `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/apps.order` OAuth scope."]]],[]]
