Required. Full resource name of Document, such as projects/{project}/locations/{location}/collections/{collection}/dataStores/{dataStore}/branches/{branch}/documents/{document}.
If the caller does not have permission to delete the Document, regardless of whether or not it exists, a PERMISSION_DENIED error is returned.
If the Document to delete does not exist, a NOT_FOUND error is returned.
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body is an empty JSON object.
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