Deletes the topic with the given name. Returns NOT_FOUND if the topic does not exist. After a topic is deleted, a new topic may be created with the same name; this is an entirely new topic with none of the old configuration or subscriptions. Existing subscriptions to this topic are not deleted, but their topic field is set to _deleted-topic_.
HTTP request
Path parameters
Parameters
topic
string
Required. Name of the topic to delete. Format is projects/{project}/topics/{topic}.
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body is an empty JSON object.
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