Method: projects.instances.databases.setIamPolicy

Sets the access control policy on a database or backup resource. Replaces any existing policy.

Authorization requires spanner.databases.setIamPolicy permission on resource. For backups, authorization requires spanner.backups.setIamPolicy permission on resource. For backup schedules, authorization requires spanner.backupSchedules.setIamPolicy permission on resource.

HTTP request

POST https://spanner.googleapis.com/v1/{resource=projects/*/instances/*/databases/*}:setIamPolicy

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
resource

string

REQUIRED: The Cloud Spanner resource for which the policy is being set. The format is projects/<project ID>/instances/<instance ID> for instance resources and projects/<project ID>/instances/<instance ID>/databases/<database ID> for databases resources.

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "policy": {
    object (Policy)
  }
}
Fields
policy

object (Policy)

REQUIRED: The complete policy to be applied to the resource. The size of the policy is limited to a few 10s of KB. An empty policy is a valid policy but certain Google Cloud services (such as Projects) might reject them.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of Policy.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

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

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.