Required. The resource name of the entryGroup, of the form: projects/{project_number}/locations/{locationId} where locationId refers to a Google Cloud region.
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource parent:
dataplex.entryGroups.create
Query parameters
Parameters
entryGroupId
string
Required. EntryGroup identifier.
validateOnly
boolean
Optional. The service validates the request without performing any mutations. The default is false.
Request body
The request body contains an instance of EntryGroup.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Operation.
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