Mask that identifies which fields on the topic to update. This field is required to do an update. The update fails if invalid fields are specified. If a field supports empty values, it can be cleared by specifying it in the update mask and not in the Topic object. If a field that does not support empty values is included in the update mask and not set in the Topic object, anINVALID_ARGUMENTerror is returned.
The following fields may be specified:
name
This is a comma-separated list of fully qualified names of fields. Example:"user.displayName,photo".
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