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Method: projects.databases.documents.patch Stay organized with collections
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Updates or inserts a document.
HTTP request
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PATCH https://firestore.googleapis.com/v1beta1/{document.name=projects/*/databases/*/documents/*/**}
The URLs use gRPC Transcoding
syntax.
Path parameters
Parameters
document.name
string
The resource name of the document, for example projects/{projectId}/databases/{databaseId}/documents/{document_path}
.
Query parameters
Parameters
updateMask
object ( DocumentMask
)
The fields to update. None of the field paths in the mask may contain a reserved name.
If the document exists on the server and has fields not referenced in the mask, they are left unchanged. Fields referenced in the mask, but not present in the input document, are deleted from the document on the server.
mask
object ( DocumentMask
)
The fields to return. If not set, returns all fields.
If the document has a field that is not present in this mask, that field will not be returned in the response.
currentDocument
object ( Precondition
)
An optional precondition on the document. The request will fail if this is set and not met by the target document.
Request body
The request body contains an instance of Document
.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Document
.
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/datastore
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
For more information, see the Authentication Overview
.
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Last updated 2026-03-06 UTC.
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