Data Catalog API methods that are related to Data Catalog search and metadata are deprecated and will be discontinued on January 30, 2026. See Transition from Data Catalog to BigQuery universal catalog. Methods that are related to policy tags and policy tag taxonomies are not deprecated.
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://datacatalog.googleapis.com/v1/{name}:cancel
Path parameters
Parameters
name
string
The name of the operation resource to be cancelled. It takes the form projects/{project}/locations/{location}/operations/{operation}.
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body is an empty JSON object.
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