Reloads the specified document from its specified source, contentUri or content. The previously loaded content of the document will be deleted. Note: Even when the content of the document has not changed, there still may be side effects because of internal implementation changes.
This method is a long-running operation. The returned Operation type has the following method-specific fields:
Required. The name of the document to reload. Format: projects/<Project ID>/locations/<Location
ID>/knowledgeBases/<Knowledge Base ID>/documents/<Document ID>
Request body
The request body contains data with the following structure:
JSON representation
{"importGcsCustomMetadata": boolean,"smartMessagingPartialUpdate": boolean,// Union field source can be only one of the following:"contentUri": string// End of list of possible types for union field source.}
Fields
importGcsCustomMetadata
boolean
Optional. Whether to import custom metadata from Google Cloud Storage. Only valid when the document source is Google Cloud Storage URI.
smartMessagingPartialUpdate
boolean
Optional. When enabled, the reload request is to apply partial update to the smart messaging allowlist.
Union field source. The source for document reloading.
If provided, the service will load the contents from the source and update document in the knowledge base.
Reloading from a new document source is allowed for smart messaging documents only. If you want to update the source for other document types, please delete the existing document and create a new one instead. source can be only one of the following:
contentUri
string
Optional. The path of gcs source file for reloading document content. For now, only gcs uri is supported.
For documents stored in Google Cloud Storage, these URIs must have the form gs://<bucket-name>/<object-name>.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation.
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