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Imports documents into Google Cloud Firestore. Existing documents with
the same name are overwritten. The import occurs in the background and
its progress can be monitored and managed via the Operation resource
that is created. If an ImportDocuments operation is cancelled, it is
possible that a subset of the data has already been imported to Cloud
Firestore.
This method waits—the workflow execution is paused—until the operation is
complete, fails, or times out. The default timeout value is 1800 seconds (30
minutes) and can be changed to a maximum value of 31536000 seconds (one year)
for long-running operations using the connector_params field. See the
Connectors reference.
The connector uses polling to monitor the long-running operation, which might
generate additional billable steps. For more information about retries and
long-running operations, refer to Understand connectors.
The polling policy for the long-running operation can be configured. To set the
connector-specific parameters (connector_params), refer to
Invoke a connector call.
Arguments
Parameters
name
string
Required. Database to import into. Should be of the form: projects/{project_id}/databases/{database_id}.
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