Data Catalog API methods that are related to Data Catalog search and metadata are deprecated and will be discontinued on January 30, 2026. See Transition from Data Catalog to Dataplex Catalog. Methods that are related to policy tags and policy tag taxonomies are not deprecated.
Updates an existing entry. Users should enable the Data Catalog API in the project identified by the entry.name parameter (see Data Catalog Resource Project for more information).
Note that this Entry and its child resources may not actually be stored in the location in this name. It takes the form projects/{project}/locations/{location}/entryGroups/{entrygroup}/entries/{entries}.
Names of fields whose values to overwrite on an entry.
If this parameter is absent or empty, all modifiable fields are overwritten. If such fields are non-required and omitted in the request body, their values are emptied.
The following fields are modifiable:
For entries with type DATA_STREAM:
schema
For entries with type FILESET:
schema
displayName
description
gcsFilesetSpec
gcsFilesetSpec.file_patterns
For entries with userSpecifiedType:
schema
displayName
description
userSpecifiedType
userSpecifiedSystem
linkedResource
sourceSystemTimestamps
This is a comma-separated list of fully qualified names of fields. Example: "user.displayName,photo".
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