Updates/Creates multiple entity types in the specified agent.
This method is a long-running operation
. The returned Operation
type has the following method-specific fields:
-
metadata: An empty Struct message -
response:BatchUpdateEntityTypesResponse
Note: You should always train an agent prior to sending it queries. See the training documentation .
HTTP request
POST https://{endpoint}/v2/{parent=projects/*/agent}/entityTypes:batchUpdate
Where {endpoint}
is one of the supported service endpoints
.
The URLs use gRPC Transcoding syntax.
Path parameters
parent
string
Required. The name of the agent to update or create entity types in. Format: projects/<Project ID>/agent
.
Authorization requires the following IAM
permission on the specified resource parent
:
-
dialogflow.entityTypes.batchUpdate
Request body
The request body contains data with the following structure:
| JSON representation |
|---|
{ "languageCode" : string , "updateMask" : string , // Union field |
languageCode
string
Optional. The language used to access language-specific data. If not specified, the agent's default language is used. For more information, see Multilingual intent and entity data .
updateMask
string (
FieldMask
format)
Optional. The mask to control which fields get updated.
This is a comma-separated list of fully qualified names of fields. Example: "user.displayName,photo"
.
Union field entity_type_batch
. The source of the entity type batch.
For each entity type in the batch:
- If
nameis specified, we update an existing entity type. - If
nameis not specified, we create a new entity type.entity_type_batchcan be only one of the following:
entityTypeBatchUri
string
The URI to a Google Cloud Storage file containing entity types to update or create. The file format can either be a serialized proto (of EntityBatch type) or a JSON object. Note: The URI must start with "gs://".
entityTypeBatchInline
object (
EntityTypeBatch
)
The collection of entity types to update or create.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation
.
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
-
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform -
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/dialogflow
For more information, see the Authentication Overview .

