Method: projects.locations.discoveryConfigs.create

Creates a config for discovery to scan and profile storage.

HTTP request

POST https://dlp.googleapis.com/v2/{parent=projects/*/locations/*}/discoveryConfigs

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
parent

string

Required. Parent resource name.

The format of this value is as follows: projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION_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 permission on the specified resource parent:

  • dlp.jobTriggers.create

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "discoveryConfig": {
    object (DiscoveryConfig)
  },
  "configId": string
}
Fields
discoveryConfig

object (DiscoveryConfig)

Required. The DiscoveryConfig to create.
configId

string

The config 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.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of DiscoveryConfig.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.