Required. Project ID of the job for which metadata is to be deleted.
jobId
string
Required. Job ID of the job for which metadata is to be deleted. If this is a parent job which has child jobs, the metadata from all child jobs will be deleted as well. Direct deletion of the metadata of child jobs is not allowed.
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