Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) is now a part of Sensitive Data Protection. The API name remains the same: Cloud Data Loss Prevention API (DLP API). For information about the services that make up Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection overview.
Organizations scope, no location specified (defaults to global): organizations/{org_id}
The following example parent string specifies a parent project with the identifier example-project, and specifies the europe-west3 location for processing data:
The template id can contain uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens; that is, it must match the regular expression: [a-zA-Z\d-_]+. The maximum length is 100 characters. Can be empty to allow the system to generate one.
locationId
string
Deprecated. This field has no effect.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of DeidentifyTemplate.
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See \u003chttps://cloud.google.com/sensitive-data-protection/docs/creating-templates-deid\u003e to learn more.\n\nHTTP request\n\nChoose a location: \nglobal africa-south1 asia-east1 asia-east2 asia-northeast1 asia-northeast2 asia-northeast3 asia-south1 asia-south2 asia-southeast1 asia-southeast2 australia-southeast1 australia-southeast2 europe-central2 europe-north1 europe-north2 europe-southwest1 europe-west1 europe-west10 europe-west12 europe-west2 europe-west3 europe-west4 europe-west6 europe-west8 europe-west9 me-central1 me-central2 me-west1 northamerica-northeast1 northamerica-northeast2 northamerica-south1 southamerica-east1 southamerica-west1 us-central1 us-east1 us-east4 us-east5 us-south1 us-west1 us-west2 us-west3 us-west4 us eu \n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\nThe URLs use [gRPC Transcoding](https://google.aip.dev/127) syntax.\n\nPath parameters\n\n| Parameters ||\n|----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `parent` | `string` Required. Parent resource name. The format of this value varies depending on the scope of the request (project or organization) and whether you have [specified a processing location](https://cloud.google.com/sensitive-data-protection/docs/specifying-location): - Projects scope, location specified: `projects/{projectId}/locations/{locationId}` - Projects scope, no location specified (defaults to global): `projects/{projectId}` - Organizations scope, location specified: `organizations/{org_id}/locations/{locationId}` - Organizations scope, no location specified (defaults to global): `organizations/{org_id}` The following example `parent` string specifies a parent project with the identifier `example-project`, and specifies the `europe-west3` location for processing data: parent=projects/example-project/locations/europe-west3 Authorization requires the following [IAM](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/) permission on the specified resource `parent`: - `dlp.deidentifyTemplates.create` |\n\nRequest body\n\nThe request body contains data with the following structure:\n\n| JSON representation |\n|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| ``` { \"deidentifyTemplate\": { object (/sensitive-data-protection/docs/reference/rest/v2/projects.deidentifyTemplates#DeidentifyTemplate) }, \"templateId\": string, \"locationId\": string } ``` |\n\n| Fields ||\n|----------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `deidentifyTemplate` | `object (`[DeidentifyTemplate](/sensitive-data-protection/docs/reference/rest/v2/projects.deidentifyTemplates#DeidentifyTemplate)`)` Required. The DeidentifyTemplate to create. |\n| `templateId` | `string` The template id can contain uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens; that is, it must match the regular expression: `[a-zA-Z\\d-_]+`. The maximum length is 100 characters. Can be empty to allow the system to generate one. |\n| `locationId` | `string` Deprecated. This field has no effect. |\n\nResponse body\n\nIf successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of [DeidentifyTemplate](/sensitive-data-protection/docs/reference/rest/v2/projects.deidentifyTemplates#DeidentifyTemplate).\n\nAuthorization scopes\n\nRequires the following OAuth scope:\n\n- `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform`\n\nFor more information, see the [Authentication Overview](/docs/authentication#authorization-gcp)."]]
