Required. Value for the parent. The resource name of the Corpus under which this index is created. Format: projects/{project_number}/locations/{locationId}/corpora/{corpus_id}
Query parameters
Parameters
indexId
string
Optional. The ID for the index. This will become the final resource name for the index. If the user does not specify this value, it will be generated by system.
This value should be up to 63 characters, and valid characters are /[a-z][0-9]-/. The first character must be a letter, the last could be a letter or a number.
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