Gets the configuration details of a snapshot. Snapshots are used insubscriptions.seekoperations, which allow you to manage message acknowledgments in bulk. That is, you can set the acknowledgment state of messages in an existing subscription to the state captured by a snapshot.
HTTP request
Path parameters
Parameters
snapshot
string
Required. The name of the snapshot to get. Format isprojects/{project}/snapshots/{snap}.
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance ofSnapshot.
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