Required. The agent to create a entity type for. Format: projects/<Project ID>/agent.
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource parent:
dialogflow.entityTypes.create
Query parameters
Parameters
languageCode
string
Optional. The language used to access language-specific data. If not specified, the agent's default language is used. For more information, see Multilingual intent and entity data.
Request body
The request body contains an instance of EntityType.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of EntityType.
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