Required. The resource name of the parent zone: projects/{project_number}/locations/{locationId}/lakes/{lakeId}/zones/{zoneId}.
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource parent:
dataplex.assets.create
Query parameters
Parameters
assetId
string
Required. Asset identifier. This ID will be used to generate names such as table names when publishing metadata to Hive Metastore and BigQuery. * Must contain only lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens. * Must start with a letter. * Must end with a number or a letter. * Must be between 1-63 characters. * Must be unique within the zone.
validateOnly
boolean
Optional. Only validate the request, but do not perform mutations. The default is false.
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