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 Dataplex Universal Catalog. Methods that are related to policy tags and policy tag taxonomies are not deprecated.
Required. Display name of the taxonomy. Max 200 bytes when encoded in UTF-8.
description
string
Description of the serialized taxonomy. The length of the description is limited to 2000 bytes when encoded in UTF-8. If not set, defaults to an empty description.
This field will be ignored when calling ImportTaxonomies.
displayName
string
Required. Display name of the policy tag. Max 200 bytes when encoded in UTF-8.
description
string
Description of the serialized policy tag. The length of the description is limited to 2000 bytes when encoded in UTF-8. If not set, defaults to an empty description.
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