Required. The parent resource name, such as projects/{project}/locations/{location}/collections/{collection}.
Query parameters
Parameters
dataStoreId
string
Required. The ID to use for the DataStore, which will become the final component of the DataStore's resource name.
This field must conform to RFC-1034 standard with a length limit of 63 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.
createAdvancedSiteSearch
boolean
A boolean flag indicating whether user want to directly create an advanced data store for site search. If the data store is not configured as site search (GENERIC vertical and PUBLIC_WEBSITE contentConfig), this flag will be ignored.
skipDefaultSchemaCreation
boolean
A boolean flag indicating whether to skip the default schema creation for the data store. Only enable this flag if you are certain that the default schema is incompatible with your use case.
If set to true, you must manually create a schema for the data store before any documents can be ingested.
This flag cannot be specified if dataStore.starting_schema is specified.
Union parameter cmek_options. CMEK options for the DataStore. Setting this field will override the default CmekConfig if one is set for the project. cmek_options can be only one of the following:
cmekConfigName
string
Resource name of the CmekConfig to use for protecting this DataStore.
disableCmek
boolean
DataStore without CMEK protections. If a default CmekConfig is set for the project, setting this field will override the default CmekConfig as well.
Request body
The request body contains an instance of DataStore.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Operation.
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