Removes an existing snapshot. Snapshots are used in subscriptions.seek operations, which allow you to manage message acknowledgments in bulk. That is, you can set the acknowledgment state of messages in an existing subscription to the state captured by a snapshot. When the snapshot is deleted, all messages retained in the snapshot are immediately dropped. After a snapshot is deleted, a new one may be created with the same name, but the new one has no association with the old snapshot or its subscription, unless the same subscription is specified.
HTTP request
Path parameters
Parameters
snapshot
string
Required. The name of the snapshot to delete. Format is projects/{project}/snapshots/{snap}.
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body is an empty JSON object.
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