Required. The project and location to create the site in. Format: projects/{project}/locations/{location}
Query parameters
Parameters
siteId
string
Optional. ID used to uniquely identify the Site within its parent scope. This field should contain at most 63 characters and must start with lowercase characters. Only lowercase characters, numbers and - are accepted. The - character cannot be the first or the last one. A system generated ID will be used if the field is not set.
The site.name field in the request will be ignored.
requestId
string
Optional. An optional unique identifier for this request. See AIP-155.
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