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A unique identifier for an entity in the Cloud Identity Groups API.
An entity can represent either a group with an optionalnamespaceor a user without anamespace. The combination ofidandnamespacemust be unique; however, the sameidcan be used with differentnamespaces.
JSON representation
{"id":string,"namespace":string}
Fields
id
string
The ID of the entity.
For Google-managed entities, theidmust be the email address of an existing group or user.
For external-identity-mapped entities, theidmust be a string conforming to the Identity Source's requirements.
Must be unique within anamespace.
namespace
string
The namespace in which the entity exists.
If not specified, theEntityKeyrepresents a Google-managed entity such as a Google user or a Google Group.
If specified, theEntityKeyrepresents an external-identity-mapped group. The namespace must correspond to an identity source created in Admin Console and must be in the form ofidentitysources/{identity_source_id}.
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